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Continuing their successful run of live podcast recordings St James, Guernsey welcomed the first ever episode of The Crisis Right with Louise Wener of 90s Britpop band Sleeper on Friday 27th January 2023 along with special guest Charlie Higson (of 90s comedy The Fast Show fame). Confirming a little too firmly that 90s nostalgia is... Continue Reading →
St. James in Guernsey carried on its regular series of comedy events on Wednesday 9th November 2022 with a visit to the island from Jason Byrne, supported by Harry Stachini. Stachini started the show off and right away his (comparatively) youthful energy and demeanour felt somewhat at odds with the majority in attendance, something he... Continue Reading →
A year on from their production of Macbeth, Moor Theatre returned with another of Shakespeare’s most renowned plays, Hamlet, at Guernsey’s Princess Royal Centre For The Performing Arts, directed by Andrew Hislop. Tackling such a script is no mean feat but it was clear from just entering the theatre that the company were going all out... Continue Reading →
With the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee all but inescapable elsewhere St James in Guernsey offered something of a respite with a double headlined night of Comedy from husband and wife duo Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris. Being the first double headliner type comedy event I’d seen here Brigstocke set the stage with a comparatively loose introduction,... Continue Reading →
As part of their diversification of events in recent time St James has featured visits from some top comedians and, added to that, they recently branched out into live podcast recordings with Drunk Women Solving Crime and they’ve not followed that up with a visit from Fingers On Buzzers, hosted by comedian Lucy Porter and... Continue Reading →
Entering The Comedy Store in London, that world famous basement between Piccadilly and Leicester Square, is like going through a time warp as it has the feel that it has remained the same since the 1980s. While that may be a bad thing in some situations, on a Sunday night when The Comedy Store Players... Continue Reading →
Music Theatre Guernsey continued their series of ‘dinner theatre’ shows at St James with a production of Stop Kiss by Diana Son. After a great meal upstairs in Local & Wild, the venue’s in house cafe/bar/restaurant, we headed downstairs into the main concert hall which had been cleverly transformed for this show into a surprisingly... Continue Reading →
While I listen to plenty of podcasts I have to admit that, as I headed into St James on Wednesday 2nd February, I really wasn’t sure what to expect as the excellently titled Drunk Women Solving Crime wasn’t one I was familiar with but, a combination of the more than solid comedy line up presented... Continue Reading →
This month sees this site reach ten years old, which feels like quite a milestone all considered as I didn’t really know when I launched it how long I’d be doing this. In that time I’ve posted more than 1,700 articles looking at music, movies, books, comics, pro-wrestling and more and things have ebbed and... Continue Reading →
Of all of Shakespeare’s plays Macbeth has long been one of my favourites, however versions I’ve seen live have ranged from the very enjoyable to the absolutely appalling (the latter specifically at the RSC in Stratford of all places!) so it was with some anticipation I headed to Moor Theatre’s production in Guernsey. Staged in... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 