Vale Earth Fair at Rocquaine Regatta 2014 – BLAKALASKA, The Space Pirates of Rocquaine, Ray and the Guns and Toby Falla – 02/08/14

Every year the Rocquaine Regatta combines fun beach and sea based events and competitions with something of a sense of old Guernsey as it fills the beach and road at the bay for the first Saturday in August. In recent years, part of this has become an evening of live music organised by the Vale...

Music in Guernsey – review of the year 2013

On Saturday 28th December 2013 my review of the year for music in Guernsey was published in The Guernsey Press. Limiting it to only 800 words was a challenge so it really is a highlights of the highlights kind of thing but there was honourable mention for The Recks, Last of the Light Brigade, Of...

BBC Introducing Guernsey – November 2013: Subversion, Bloodstock and Stone ‘Em All

On the November 2013 edition of BBC Introducing Guernsey I was joined in the studio by pop-rock band Subversion for an acoustic session as well as a chat about their time as a band so far and their experience heading to the UK to record their debut EP (available now over on their Soundcloud page). I...

Bright_Lights, Evarane and Static Alice – Fermain Tavern – 16/11/13

On Saturday 16th November 2013 'The Crew' presented a show at The Fermain Tavern in Guernsey featuring two bands from the island along with one who had travelled over from the UK. You can read my interview with the visitors, Evarane, here and below is my review of the show including Bright_Lights and Static Alice...

BBC Introducing Guernsey: August 2013 – Vale Earth Fair and The John Wesley Stone

For the August 2013 edition of BBC Introducing Guernsey I reviewed the Vale Earth Fair festival which took place on Sunday 25th August and interviewed Hillbill and Tinshack from The John Wesley Stone about the band's second album, Shiraibu. You can read my review of the Vale Earth Fair here and my review of Shiraibu...

Vale Earth Fair 2013

On Sunday 25th August 2013 the Vale Castle once again became home to the Vale Earth Fair music festival with six stages of live music over 12 hours spanning everything from folk and country to psytrance and stoner metal. As ever the event was raising money for charity with Burma Campaign, Free Tibet and Bridge2Haiti...

SpoonFest 2 – The Fermain Tavern – 27/07/13

Update: The Niche website has now been taken down, scroll down the page to read the full review On Saturday 27th July 2013 Teaspoonriverneck staged their second mini-festival at The Fermain Tavern with a line up of bands, DJs, movies and other entertainment all selected by them. Across the night acts from Guernsey, Sark and...

BBC Introducing Guernsey: July 2013 – Festival Season

On this month's BBC Introducing Guernsey show I took a look at the three big summer festivals that take place around the Bailiwick every summer. First it was the Sark Folk Festival and we heard from the organisers, Peter Gabriel Byrne and The Space Pirates of Rocquaine. For our look at Chaos organiser OzyChris told...

Chaos 2013

The ninth annual Greenman MCC Chaos Weekend took over the Pleinmont Headland in Guernsey from Friday 12th to Sunday 14th July 2013. With bands from Guernsey, Jersey and the UK appearing (including Mallory Knox and [Spunge]), alongside DJs and, of course, the clubs bike show, it was everything we have come to expect from the...

BBC Introducing Guernsey: April 2013 – Mt. Wolf and Jack McGahy

For the April 2013 edition of BBC Introducing Guernsey I was joined in the studio by two acts at different stages of their career. First was Mt. Wolf, half of whom originally hail from Guernsey, though they are now based in London. The band have been making a name for themselves off the back of...