BBC Introducing In The Channel Islands – 27/05/23

On Saturday 27th May 2023, while the Guernsey Together Festival was in full swing, I presented another two hours of new music from around the Channel Islands which you can listen to by clicking here. I started the show with a look back at some of the artists who played the Peas&Glove Last Wave festival...

Local Music Upstairs At St James – Local And Wild At St James – 11/06/22

While it had looked like a more quiet weekend this weekend the somewhat last minute announcement of this show featuring five solo and duo acts upstairs at St James piqued my interest so I thought I’d head along. Elliot Albert Orchard & Callum began proceedings, initially joined by Pips drummer Jake Pemberton as Orchard, sat...

Playlist May 2022

I’ve not had as much chance as normal for new music this month but have still found a few bits for my playlist (which you can listen to on Spotify by clicking here). Of the new stuff I’ve got music from Bloomfield, Honeycub, Jon Spencer And The HITmakers, My Chemical Romance and Rammstein, along with...

Jesca Hoop with Hollie Thorne and Gregory Harrison And The Bare Minimum – St James Concert Hall – 14/05/22

It’s felt like a while since I was last at a full scale show in St James Concert Hall but there was definitely a sense of expectation ahead of this one on Saturday 14th May 2022, for a few reasons. First was that Jesca Hoop had come so highly recommended that, even having never heard...

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,...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Bailiwick Folk And Roots, Gregory Harrison and Tallia Storm – 27/11/21

Gregory Harrison and Nathan Arnaud Click here to listen to the show My BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show for November will be my last of 2021 (don’t worry I’ll be back on New Year’s Day) and features a real mix of stuff from dance to folk to metal and various things in...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Gregory Harrison and Axon Bower – 27/03/21

Gregory Harrison Click here to listen to the show For my March 2021 edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands I was joined by Gregory Harrison and we heard from Axon Bower. Gregory Harrison released his debut full length album, 109, last month and I spoke to him about the recording and release...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Burning At Both Ends and Buffalo Huddleston- 27/02/21

Click here to listen to the show With lockdown in effect across the Channel Islands throughout the last month my edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands for February 27th 2021 had a slightly different feel. Last month Burning At Both Ends released their third album, Self Made Paradise, and I spoke to...

February 2021 Playlist

Click here to listen to the full playlist in Spotify A full month back in lockdown has obviously meant a (hopefully temporary) end to live shows but that hasn’t meant that new music hasn’t kept coming through. So, in the brand new stuff area, I’ve got a track from the new album by Gregory Harrison...

Guernsey Gigs Podcast – 14/02/21

Click here to listen to the podcast With Guernsey back in lockdown in February 2021 the Guernsey Gigs team have revived their podcast in a live stream form. After first joining them back in April 2018 I joined them again on February 14th 2021 and we discussed various topics to do with music in the...