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When I first heard the rumours that Squirrel (aka Christiaan Mariess) was making a solo record I really didn’t know what to expect. Most well known as the man behind the drum kit for Brunt and Lord Vapour, I had also heard his acoustic dabbling on occasion at the Guernsey Gigs Unplugged Club and seen... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show After five months away due to the pandemic lockdown, which Guernsey is currently very lucky to have had restrictions lifted from, I was back on the air for BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands on Saturday 25th July 2020. Having recorded the session for the show in... Continue Reading →
The Vale Earth Fair's annual unplugged night has become almost as much a part of the Guernsey music calendar as the summer festival itself, albeit with slightly less fanfare. Every year comes with its own surprised and highlights which in the past have ranged from The John Wesley Stone heading off stage and fully unplugged... Continue Reading →
Click here to go straight to the Spotify playlist A new year and so a new playlist begins but as ever I'll add around ten tracks to it a month and post an update here - if you just want to listen to the tracks then head over to Spotify and give the playlist a... Continue Reading →
As with last year's December playlist blog I've got two in one this month with my usual monthly update and a more focussed 'best of the year' including some of my favourite new tracks from 2019 (you can also find one focussing on music from the Channel Islands on my review of the year blog... Continue Reading →
After a couple of years where music in Guernsey had upped its game, across the board, to a level that continues to surprise many visitors to the island, or those who hear Guernsey based bands when they venture away, 2019 has had to me a slightly different feel. While the quality of music certainly hasn't... Continue Reading →
Every now and again a gig comes around that seems to catch everyone's imagination more than the usual and, a few months ago, when St James Concert Hall announced they'd booked the awkwardly but brilliantly named Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (aka PigsX7), this was certainly the case — then when it was... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show On my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show for November 2019 we had a live session, a preview a new album and a listen to some of the acts I caught at BBC Music Introducing Live earlier in the month. Hot off their latest tour and... Continue Reading →
By their own admission, and fitting of much of their music, instrumental psychedelic doom three-piece Brunt aren't a band to rush things, being (in a positive way) something of the musical version of JRR Tolkien's Ents. Now, three years on from the release of three track EP Blackbeard comes their latest offering, the enigmatically titled... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show This month I was back across all Channel Islands once again for BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands with new music from Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Alderney all represented (I've still not got anything from Herm). Live in session were The Cor Damme Lars ahead of the... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 