BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Live Session Review Of The Year – 01/01/22

Click here to listen to the show As Christmas Day fell on A Saturday in 2021 my usual last Saturday of the month radio show shifted a week to New Year Day but it still felt like a good opportunity to look back at some of the live sessions featured throughout the year on BBC...

Music In Guernsey (And The Channel Islands) in 2021

A year ago, as I looked back at music around the islands in 2020, I said something along the lines of ‘here’s to things returning to normal in 2021’, and, while that hasn’t been quite as true a prediction as I think we’d all hoped, it’s fair today at that, for new Music at least,...

Its Own Animal and Kiya Ashton And The Folkadelics – The Vault – 03/12/21

Its Own Animal After being delayed at the tail end of the summer, Friday 3rd December 2021 was finally time for Its Own Animal (aka Garry Minto) to celebrate the release of his latest album, his first since moving to Guernsey, Good To Be Home, with support coming from Kiya Ashton. Ashton opened the show...

Lifejacket and Lula & Gene – The Vault – 27/11/21

Lifejacket With the Christmas lights on around St Peter Port and Storm Arwen battering the island it’s fair to say there was strange mood about the place as I headed down to The Vault on Saturday 27th November 2021 for a rare outing from Lifejacket (not aided by several delays for the obvious reasons) along...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Bailiwick Folk And Roots, Gregory Harrison and Tallia Storm – 27/11/21

Gregory Harrison and Nathan Arnaud Click here to listen to the show My BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show for November will be my last of 2021 (don’t worry I’ll be back on New Year’s Day) and features a real mix of stuff from dance to folk to metal and various things in...

HopePunk Records Presents Burning At Both Ends, Marine Boy and Bloomfield – The Mariner’s In – 20/11/21

It’s been a few years since the last time I went to, or even heard about, a new music event at The Mariner’s Inn on The Bridge in Guernsey and evening before it started this had the feel of a slightly strange one with, it appeared, a visiting band in Marine Boy and being organised...

Bailiwick Folk And Roots presents Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman with The Basement Preachers – St Martin’s Parish Hall – 13/11/21

Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman After quite some success over the last decade or so with the Sark Folk Festival some of the people behind those events have regrouped under the name Bailiwick Folk And Roots and, on Saturday 13th November 2021, held their first event featuring past folk festivals performers Kathryn Roberts and Sean...

MTG Present The Sound Of Musicals – St James Concert Hall – 02/11/21

So before I get into the meat of this look at Music Theatre Guernsey’s (MTG) The Sound Of Musicals concert-cum-show at St James Concert Hall in Guernsey I should probably point out that I was actively involved in the show until about half way through rehearsals so I had something of a preview of some...

Halloween Weekend at The Vault with Maiden Guernsey, Spectre and Nu Kidz On The Blocq – 29-30/10/21

Nu Kidz On The Blocq While it always used to be The Fermain Tavern that was home of Guernsey’s heavy metal Halloween celebrations, it seems that for the last few years this has moved to The Vault, and that was no different in 2021 as there were two nights of it, starting with Maiden Guernsey...

HorrorPops: Live At The Wiltern

Danish psychobilly band HorrorPops are an act I’ve been a fan of since I first discovered them on a Hellcat Records sampler back in the mid-2000s, around the same I found Tiger Army and Nekromantix too, but have never had a chance to catch them live as they split following 2008 album Kiss Kiss Kill...