The Nightmares Single Launch with The Rock ‘N’ Roll Disaster, Eloise Fabbri and It’s Own Animal – The Doghouse – 05/06/21

The Nightmares and friends The Nightmares (formerly The Beautiful Nightmares and not to be confused with the South Wales goth rockers with the same name) have spent the last year or so formulating and confirming their line up and sound and now, with the release of their debut single Rudeboy, they seem to have taken...

Black Paint Is Wet and Bloomfield – The Vault – 29/05/21

Black Paint Is Wet It’s a sign of the good health of Guernsey’s music scene that, with two festivals of sorts happening around the islands, there was still room for a show from a pair of new, up and coming bands to not only take place, but attract a good crowd too, as Black Paint...

Foxy Stoat Seeks Pig – The Vault – 21/05/21

While, in many ways, it was the early 2000s that I really musically came of age, the music of the 1990s, particularly in the more alt rock and grunge area (and a suggestion of what got loosely termed nu-metal) holds an undeniable place in my musical heart and it was in this area that Foxy...

Charlie Sherbourne’s Man Feelings Single Launch with The Mike Meinke Band – St James – 14/05/21

Charlie Sherbourne's Man Feelings As I said when reviewing his debut single, The Ballad Of Billy Bradshaw, Charlie Sherbourne has been a familiar name on Guernsey’s music scene for a long while, but this show not only marked the release of his first original output but also a rare ‘big gig’ with his band in...

From Darkness Album Launch with Apothis – The Vault – 01/05/21

From Darkness 24 hours after Clameur De Haro celebrate the launch of their debut album it was the turn of From Darkness to do the same with a slightly darker and heavier show at The Vault accompanied by newcomers Apothis. The new band started off the night with a wall of visceral metallic noise from...

Clameur De Haro Album Launch with Mike Meinke – The Golden Lion – 30/04/21

Clameur De Haro While releasing original recorded music has become a far more common thing in recent years than maybe it was before, every now and then, when bands decide to celebrate the launch of a new album, it can still feel like a big event, and on the May Day bank holiday weekend in...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Charlie Sherbourne and Kiskadee – 24/04/21

Charlie Sherbourne and Friends in the studio Click here to listen to the show On my April 2021 edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands we had live music back in the studio and a host of new music from around the islands. Marking the launch of his debut single, Charlie Sherbourne, along...

St James Presents… Bloomfield, Sarnia, Black Paint Is Wet and Aktung – St James Concert Hall – 16/04/21

Bloomfield While not officially a Sound Guernsey event there was no denying the similarities between the latest St James Presents... show an the under 18s live music nights as not only was the audience predominantly on the younger side but all four bands were brand new acts made up of young performers, including some entirely...

Upload Festival CI: Take 2 – St James Concert And Assembly Hall – 03/04/21

The Mike Meinke Band Three months or so ago I was at the cafe at St James enjoying an evening of acoustic performances from a range of artists for the first part of the first, in person, Upload Festival CI that had originally begun during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown. Then, the following morning, while preparing...

Upload Festival CI – St James Cafe and Online – 22-23/01/21

There’s no denying, as I sit here on my sofa on the day after the event, that there’s a kind of dark irony to the latest Upload Festival CI - but we’ll get to that later. The Upload Festival CI began during the first coronavirus lockdown in mid 2020 when local musician Kiya Ashton realised...