Rebecca Marano

As LGBT History month comes to a close, IMPACT brings you a choice selection of some of the finest LGBT-affiliated songs to soundtrack your demonstration of pride throughout the year. Where some of these entries are just a few of our favourite tracks by LGBT artists, others have an incredible political,...

‘Maybe you’re just sending lots of love, there’s a lovely vibe in here’ murmurs bassist Jack Flanagan to the intimate crowd of Rough Trade. And he’s not wrong; the crowd treats the band like old school friends, chatting away with them like they’ve known each other for years. And, in...

They’ve been heralded the “ones to watch in 2016”. Impact Music sat down with lead singer Ollie Baines, bassist Tom Clay, violinist Dorry Macaulay and guitarist Thomas Pink in Nottingham’s finest noodle venue, Wok & Go, to find out what makes Flight Brigade so special.  So welcome to Nottingham! How’s...

With only a few weeks left of term, we’ve generously gone and collated a selection of soothing, inspiring, or angst-ridden tracks into our Deadline De-Stress playlist, so as to help you overcome any stage of your coursework-related agonies. Whether you need to cool down after a particularly laborious session,...

From Vogue magazine’s ‘indie music breakout star’ of 2012 to a successful solo musician in her own right – Lucy Rose has come along way from being Bombay Bicycle Club’s backing vocalist. Establishing herself as the industry’s ‘nice girl’ singer-songwriter, Rose has taken a new, edgier direction with her...

Childhood fears can be the fears that stay with us for life. We’ve all got those films that send us cowering, those TV programmes that give us the shivers. The Impact Film & TV team delve into their childhoods and explain which childhood fears still gives them the creeps....

‘I’d rather be a rebel than a slave’; This historical quotation proved controversial; yet no words ring truer for Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette. Set in 1912, the film follows the fictional, working-class woman Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan), we see her evolve from meek, vulnerable laundry lackey to a dedicated and...