Apothis Album Launch with Burning At Both Ends – The Fermain Tavern – 04/03/22

Last month Apothis dropped their debut album, ECLIPSE, and, on Friday 4th March 2022, they held a special show to celebrate the release along with Burning At Both Ends at The Fermain Tavern. First off I have to say it was great to be at a gig at The Tav again as, while it might...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: The Nightmares and Charles Stenner – 26/02/22

Click here to listen to the show On my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show for February 2022 I spoke to a band playing their biggest gig and heard from an artist from Guernsey releasing a new single written and recorded in Canada. The band is The Nightmares who, after a successful...

February 2022 Playlist

Click here to listen on Spotify Another month and another bunch tracks I’ve been listening to and have heard. There’s a few new ones from Grace And Elliott, Tadgh Daly and Apothis and other ‘new music’ from Burning At Both Ends, Elliot Albert Orchard (aka Albert & The Pips) and Fontaines DC. Along with those...

Burning At Both Ends and Bloomfield – The Vault – 05/02/22

A year and a couple of weeks ago ‘pop-punks with beatdowns’ Burning At Both Ends were due to celebrate the release of their third album, Self Made Paradise, with a show at The Vault supported by then debuting band Bloomfield - unfortunately the very same day Guernsey went back into a sudden lockdown so now...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Live Session Review Of The Year – 01/01/22

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...

HopePunk Records Presents Burning At Both Ends, Marine Boy and Bloomfield – The Mariner’s In – 20/11/21

It’s been a few years since the last time I went to, or even heard about, a new music event at The Mariner’s Inn on The Bridge in Guernsey and evening before it started this had the feel of a slightly strange one with, it appeared, a visiting band in Marine Boy and being organised...

October 2021 Playlist

Click here to listen to the playlist on Spotify After a bumper month last month I’m back to the regular ten this month with again a selection of music, new, old and somewhere in between that I’ve listened to this month. In new stuff there’s Granite Wolf, Coach Party, Black Spiders, Yard Act, Sonic Bomb...

Afrocarribean Fusion Presents Nonstop Jammin’ with Burning At Both Ends, Minister Blessed and Yas – Fermain Tavern – 16/10/21

Burning At Both Ends and Minister Blessed Last year a new group to organising shows in Guernsey, Afrocarribean Fusion, presented a night at The Fermain Tavern showcasing Minister Blessed and Yas (you can read about there here) and now a year later they are back, joined this time by Burning At Both Ends making for...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Minister Blessed and Von Cassidy – 25/09/21

This month on my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show I took a look ahead to the upcoming Afrocarribean Jammin’ night at the Tav and featured our track of the week...

April 2021 Playlist

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...