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Click here to listen on Spotify Another bumper crop of tracks this month with a lot of new stuff along with a few old favourites. In the way of brand new stuff I’ve got tracks from A Band Of Squirrels, Frank Turner, Ghost, Coach Party, Rosalie Cunningham, Dream Widow and more. And when it comes... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For my March 2022 BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show I continued the path to the summer festival season and featured a brand new track of the week. John Le Sauvage joined me to tell us about the upcoming MermFest festival in Sark in May... Continue Reading →
After a well received, self-titled debut EP on Magic Moustache Records last summer, A Band Of Squirrels has returned with a surprise new single, Deja-View. Starting with a jazzy piano line we are soon in familiar lightly psychedelic jazz territory with swirling sounds emerging behind a laconic baseline that takes us through the tune. There’s... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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,... Continue Reading →
Albert And The Pips It was back to The Vault on Friday 15th October for another evening of live music presented by L’Islet Records, but this time going in a 'Superchilled' direction with stripped back performances from Albert &The Pips (FKA Eliot Albert Orchard), Squirrel & Joe and Kiya Ashton. Kiya started the night in... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show now I presented another two hours of new music from around the Channel Islands on Saturday 31st July 2021 and once again BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands was packed with a range of sounds. My guest in session for this month was the man behind A... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the full playlist now This month has seen a lot of new music from the islands dropping and as such my ten tracks I’ve added to my playlist almost all draw on this in one way or another. When it comes to brand new stuff there’s new music from Dribbler,... Continue Reading →
Back in April, A Band Of Squirrel's (aka simply Squirrel, aka Christiaan Mariess) appeared as a musical act in his own right, separate of his more familiar role behind the drums for Brunt and Lord Vapour (amongst others) with single Down, released through Magic Moustache Records, and now he’s back with a full length album... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen now on Spotify Another busy month with live music well and truly back on the agenda in Guernsey and lots of new releases too, along with a few other bits. Of the new stuff I’ve got the debut single from A Band Of Squirrels and new tracks from Axon Bower, Burning... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 