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Following a year off for the obvious reasons in 2020 and then a shortened event in 2021 the celebration of bands, bikes and booze (in different orders for different people) that is Chaos returned at full strength for this 17th happening over the last weekend of June in 2022. Day One As is fairly usual... Continue Reading →
For my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show this month I spoke to some of the team from Chaos Events and we heard from Benlem who’s track Blue’s Clues was our Track Of The Week and you can listen to the show by clicking here. At the end of June, for the... 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 →
After missing it’s originally intended dates last year, for obvious reasons, Chaos returned to those fields at Pleinmont headland in Guernsey on the 25th and 26th June 2021 for a shorter, and in some ways smaller than usual, but no less action packed, affair. With that in mind the event was missing a couple of... Continue Reading →
After one of their most successful years to date in expanding not just into North America but with their first fully fledged UK show too with Royal Quest back in August, New Japan Pro-Wrestling began their 2020 with their annual 14th January Wrestle Kingdom in Tokyo Dome show — expanded to two nights and with... Continue Reading →
With three wrestling shows in three days there was really no denying which was the biggest I attended as New Japan Pro-Wrestling put on its first show in the UK promoted without either RevPro or ROH (though it remained clear from some of the talent, referees and ring announcers that behind the scenes RevPro were... Continue Reading →
After seemingly settling back into a winning formula last year, Chaos returned for a 15th time to the Pleinmont headland in Guernsey over the weekend of 28th to 30th June 2019. With two stages running for the three days it was possibly the most varied Chaos event yet with musical styles ranging from early UK... Continue Reading →
Not only was 2018 the first year I made it to see more live wrestling (predominantly PROGRESS in London) it was also the first complete calendar year I avidly followed New Japan Pro-Wrestling from last January's Wrestle Kingdom 12 through all the main shows, including the New Japan Cup, Best of Super Jrs, G1 Climax... Continue Reading →
Now in its 14th year I think it's safe to say that, after the Vale Earth Fair, Chaos (aka Chaos Weekend or Chaos Festival) is one of the most established events in the Channel Islands music calendar regularly attracting visitors from Jersey, the U.K. and mainland Europe. Over that time it's developed hugely from a... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show BBC Music Introducing in Guernsey for April 2018 had three main themes to it. First was our live guests, Eli and Casey from pop band Kings. They played an acoustic session for us featuring the first three singles from their 'Season 1' releases, and they told us about... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 