After several years of having a live stage as part of Arts Sunday, in 2022 BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands moved its annual live outing in Guernsey to be part of the Guernsey Together Festival on Saturday 28th May. The festival, which began in 2021, after the island’s second lock down, initially featured... Continue Reading →
BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: L’Islet Records and Josh Le Tissier – 28/05/22
It was a busy weekend for BBC Introducing In The Channel Islands as we hosted a stage at the Guernsey Together Festival for the first time as well as having a packed show which you can listen to by clicking here. I spoke to Ollie and Shinfo from L’Islet Records who told us about their... Continue Reading →
BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: MermFest and Lyrics RHF – 26/03/22
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 →
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... Continue Reading →
BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Apothis and Guernsey Together announcement – 29/02/22
Apothis Click here to listen to the show For my first proper BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show of 2022 it was a busy one plenty of new music along with a few previously featured favourites. I spoke to Apothis about their first year and a bit as a band and their... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Music In Guernsey (And The Channel Islands) in 2021
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 →
BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Granite Wolf and Chaz Chapman – 30/10/21
Granite Wolf Click here to listen to the show This month on my BBC Introducing In The Channel Islands I took a look at he new record from Granite Wolf and heard from Chaz Chapman about his new single. Granite Wolf dropped their debut single earlier in the month and I spoke to them as... Continue Reading →
September 2021 Playlist
A bumper crop this month for my playlist update as, I’m not sure why, I feel like I’ve found a lot of new stuff (both new to me and actually new)...
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...