• Tom Grennan: Boys Don’t Cry

    Katie Barr Tom Grennan continues to establish himself as one of the UK’s most formidable pop talents with his latest single, ‘Boys Don’t Cry.’ This powerful track, the third to be unveiled from his upcoming album Everywhere I Went Led Me To Where I Didn’t Want To Be, showcases...
  • “A NIGHT OF EXHILARATION AND NOSTALGIA …”- REVIEW: FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT -TV CLASSICS

    While orchestral performances are often associated with serenity, BBC Concert Orchestra’s Friday Night is Music Night: TV Classics at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall was anything but subdued — and that was its greatest triumph. This was no evening of quiet reflection; it was a night of exhilaration and nostalgia,...
  • A Thrilling Ride: Murder on The Orient Express

    Katie Barr There’s nothing quite like a gripping whodunnit to electrify an audience, and the showing of Murder on the Orient Express at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal is a first-class journey into intrigue. Impact reviewer, Katie Barr tells us all of Agatha Christie’s classic detective tale, brought to life in...
  • Blossom and Bunny Rabbits: Spring captured on campus 

    Harriet Hobbs It’s finally happened. After months of frigid and bitter chill, it’s official, the clocks have leapt forward reminding us all that Spring has arrived. University Park Campus has a habit of showcasing all seasons like a new fashion and Spring certainly seems to suit her very well....
  • What a catch! Nottingham’s CATCH vintage market has set vintage shopping standards high

    Amelia Cropley Is thrifting a community? Impact reviewer Amelia Cropley would say so. Attending the Y2K CATCH market, Amelia tells of all she saw. To thrift is to swap and borrow your friends’ old clothes, buy someone’s preloved jeans and give it a second life. Thrifting also means becoming...
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    Why is everyone on TV getting high?

    Katie Barr Teen dramas, drugs, and the fine line between storytelling and glorification  It’s 11pm on a school night, you’re elbow-deep in a binge-watching spiral. Rue from Euphoria is back at it, popping pills in slow motion, bathed in neon lights and Labrinth’s haunting soundtrack sets the mood. It...
  • Dracula, Count Orlok and Nosferatu: Remake, Rehash or Rip-off?

    My immediate impression of Robert Egger’s 2024 film was one of captivation – cinematography that recreated a 19th-century Germany immaculately, a star-studded cast and a vampiric plot had all the makings of a film I should have thoroughly enjoyed but by the time the credits rolled an hour and...