BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Sick Militia and Festival Look Back – 24/09/22

For my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show in September 2022, which marked 14 years of my presenting and producing the show, I had a packed show with new music a look back at recent festivals which you can listen to by clicking here. I spoke to Sick Militia, who merge extreme...

Eloise Fabbri – RAW (live) EP

Last Autumn I was part of a recording session for BBC Introducing with Eloise Fabbri and, around the same time, she said she and her band had been in the studio recording an EP (her first with this ensemble) and that has now been released as RAW (live). From the start of opener Beauty (previously...

St James Presents… The Pips, Kiya Ashton And The Folkadelics and Joe Corbin – St James Concert Hall – 12/08/22

Over the last 12 months The Pips (formerly Albert & The Pips) have grown into one of the highlights of Guernsey’s live music scene and are now setting their sights on a move to Manchester so, before they go, they put on a show at St James with Kiya Ashton & The Folkadelics and Joe...

Russell And The French Boys and Eloise Fabbri – The Vault – 06/08/22

After a few weeks out of action and a few different events from Castle Nights to Chaos and the Rocquaine Regatta it was back to The Vault on Saturday 6th August 2022 for a regular ‘pub gig’ of a sort with Eloise Fabbri and Russell And The French Boys. Eloise Fabbri started the night flanked...

Maiden Guernsey and Back In Vraic at Castle Nights – Castle Cornet – 22/07/22

Guernsey’s Castle Cornet has seen a few invasions in its long history but none quite like the raid it’s South Battery withstood from two of the islands hardest rocking tribute bands on Friday 22nd July 2022, as Maiden Guernsey and Back In Vraic made a somewhat out of character appearance at KPMG Castle Nights. It...

Tantale and Kiya Ashton And The Folkadelics – The Vault – 15/07/22

As the bands set up on Friday 15th July 2022 at The Vault there was a certain atmosphere in the air, something akin to end of term at school or being ready for break and, as Tantale frontman Steve, pointed out later, it made for something of a festival wind down show following the previous...

Chaos 17 – Pleinmont, Guernsey – 24-26/06/22

Following a year off for the obvious reasons in 2020 and then a shortened event in 2021 the celebration of bands, bikes and booze (in different orders for different people) that is Chaos returned at full strength for this 17th happening over the last weekend of June in 2022. Day One As is fairly usual...

Local Music Upstairs At St James – Local And Wild At St James – 11/06/22

While it had looked like a more quiet weekend this weekend the somewhat last minute announcement of this show featuring five solo and duo acts upstairs at St James piqued my interest so I thought I’d head along. Elliot Albert Orchard & Callum began proceedings, initially joined by Pips drummer Jake Pemberton as Orchard, sat...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands at Guernsey Together Festival – The Rabbit Warren – 28/05/22

After several years of having a live stage as part of Arts Sunday, in 2022 BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands moved its annual live outing in Guernsey to be part of the Guernsey Together Festival on Saturday 28th May. The festival, which began in 2021, after the island’s second lock down, initially featured...

Jesca Hoop with Hollie Thorne and Gregory Harrison And The Bare Minimum – St James Concert Hall – 14/05/22

It’s felt like a while since I was last at a full scale show in St James Concert Hall but there was definitely a sense of expectation ahead of this one on Saturday 14th May 2022, for a few reasons. First was that Jesca Hoop had come so highly recommended that, even having never heard...