Nadhya Kamalaneson

Read on for Part 2 of Impact‘s interview with singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich… How did you start making music? My dad played the Beatles Nina Simone around the house when I was three years old. At that age you don’t know what it is you like about it. You...

Impact recently caught up with critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich ahead of his anticipated show at Rescue Rooms as part of his UK Autumn Tour. You’ve played in Nottingham before? Yeah I like Nottingham a lot. It’s lively. If you imagine as a songwriter you’re inspired by feeling places...

The fact that M.I.A. was replaced as a headlining act in this year’s inaugural AFROPUNK Festival in London was but one of the many controversies surrounding the highly anticipated release of her fifth studio album, AIM. Organisers of the festival felt compelled to act as a growing number of...

On September 7th, we caught up with Xavier Poitras from the Montreal-based group Solids on the rooftop of The Bodega Social Club in Hockley, before their set. IMPACT: Have you performed here before? Xavier: No, it’s our first time in Nottingham. The whole UK tour was offered to us by...

Shit Present Experiencing a decidedly DIY punk band such as Shit Present in a venue such as Bodega was as refreshing as it was surreal. I had to constantly remind myself I was not stood in the JT Soar: an old fruit and vegetable warehouse just outside Nottingham city centre...

HÆLOS are the furthest thing from the characterless contrived creatives that come to mind when you think about an experimental electronic trio hailing from Hackney. Neither the venue’s intimacy nor relative emptiness on a bank holiday Monday discouraged them. “It almost feels like our studio that we’re inviting you...

This was a performance I had been anticipating for quite some time. As I navigated the battalion inconsiderately formed in front of the stage by tall old white men, I casually struck up conversations with members of the audience. “Did you know that they used to be Southern Death...