Ghost – Phantomime EP

Since their second album Infestissumam, Swedish rockers Ghost have followed their LPs with an EP half way through their touring cycle, largely made up of cover versions of varying predictability (with the exception of Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic which was a pair of new originals), so, to follow 2022’s Impera album they have now...

BBC Introducing In The Channel Islands – 27/05/23

On Saturday 27th May 2023, while the Guernsey Together Festival was in full swing, I presented another two hours of new music from around the Channel Islands which you can listen to by clicking here. I started the show with a look back at some of the artists who played the Peas&Glove Last Wave festival...

Nick Coleman (with Callum Aitken) – The Doghouse – 19/05/23

Continuing his ongoing run of nights for new music at The Doghouse (which now look set to continue for the rest of the year) Garry Minto, aka Its Own Animal, invited The Nightmares' guitarist Nick Coleman to take to the stage and play a selection of his own, largely previously unheard in public, songs. With...

Dropkick Murphys – Tulsa Albums: This Machine Still Kills Fascists and Okemah Rising

Across their career Boston folk-punk troupe Dropkick Murphys have long had an association with American folk pioneer Woody Guthrie, both through their outlook on the world and, more specifically, by rearranging his writing to suit their style (including their most well known song, I’m Shipping Up To Boston). Given that it should probably come as...

John Le Sauvage – Four-45

John Le Sauvage will be a familiar face to many on Guernsey’s music scene as he has been a constant presence for a good number of years playing bass and/or guitar and singing with the likes of The Half Day Fridays, JD & Folk, his current band Neon Fire and no doubt various others, but...

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke

The last few years has seen something of a resurgence in the career of the so-called punk poet laureate, Dr. John Cooper Clarke, and, as part of that, he released I Wanna Be Yours, an autobiography named for one of his more lauded poems. To the casual observer, or even the slightly less casual, it’s...

Le Beaubo – Ishmael

Formed in 2022 and quickly gaining a reputation for their inventive brand of groovy psychedelia Le Beaubo are, I’ll freely admit, a band I’ve not entirely got on the occasions I’ve caught them live, but still I was looking forward to hearing what they sounded like on record as they dropped debut single, Ishmael through...

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Despite the amount of coverage Daniels’ (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) Everything Everywhere All At Once received as it picked up plenty of ‘gongs’ in 2023 awards season I pressed play on it knowing very little beyond the fact it had something to do with multiverse theory and starred Michelle Yeoh. As it began,...

Coastal Fire Dept – Outsiders

Alongside a live show to welcome a new guitarist, Guernsey grungers Coastal Fire Dept have got their 2023 going in earnest with the release of their third album, Outsiders. Broadly speaking this sees them pull together their last 18 months worth of singles but, in doing that, it consolidates the quartet’s shift in sound to...

The Revenant (2015)

Despite having something of a love for mythic America I haven’t really explored the western genre in as much detail as I maybe should have, though I have enjoyed the main ones I’ve seen from True Grit (both versions) to The Hateful Eight, Django and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford,...