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...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands – DanTurian and Empara Mi – 29/05/21

DanTurian in the studio Click here to listen to show May 2021 seems to have brought with it a bumper crop of new music and that was certainly reflected in my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show for the month. For my live session this month I was joined by DanTurian who has...

May 2021 Playlist

Click here to listen now on Spotify It’s been an odd month for me musically but nonetheless there’s been a lot going on. First of all there’s been a raft of brand new stuff including the debut single from pop punkers Bloomfield, the self-titled debut album by metallers From Darkness, a new single and EP...

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...

DanTurian – Sun And Mist

I first encountered DanTurian at the Guernsey Gigs Unplugged Club where he impressed with an acoustic performance and then again at the Upload Festival CI where he played a more amplified but still solo set, so I was interested to hear what his first release, the EP Sun & Mist had to offer. Across five...

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...

Bloomfield – Clay

As a band, Guernsey based five-piece Bloomfield have only been around, in the public eye at least, for a couple of months and have less than a handful of live outings under their belt. They are, however, made up of members of various other past and current bands (including Case On The Base and Apothis)...

From Darkness – Self-titled

When From Darkness first burst onto the Guernsey music scene in 2018 I made no secret of the fact that their attempt at uncompromising heavy metal did little for me, filled, as it was at the time, with what felt like too much of a streak of posing arrogance and ‘trying too hard’ to be...

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...