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Another one that came up recently on some social media memories and that I realised the original version has partially vanished from the BBC Guernsey website where it was originally posted - so here's my look at the first fully commercial style festival of the current era in Guernsey, a sister to the Jersey equivalent,... Continue Reading →
As long as I have been writing about new music, and specifically new music from the Channel Islands, there has been a group of musicians based in the London indie scene strongly linked to Guernsey, primarily amongst them Jim Rhesus but with a few others too. Over the years, from the Subliminal Girls at the... Continue Reading →
After it came up and caused some conversation in a flashback post on Instagram recently, and I noticed the original version of this review had dropped off the BBC website where it was originally posted, I thought I’d revisit this show from April 2007 when Guernsey heavy metal heroes Nemesis made a grand return to... Continue Reading →
Relatively hot on the heels of their debut 'mini-album' Control, Coastal Fire Dept. are back with a new single (a lead in to their upcoming new album), You Are Stuck. Since we last heard from the band on record they seem to have further solidified their line up with Ollie Goddard (guitar and vocals), Saad... Continue Reading →
The last decade has seen Tantale develop their 'ambient grunge' sound across three full albums (and an early EP) to become a band with a formidable reputation both on record and on stage - their debut album launch show at The Fermain Tavern in 2012 has long remained a much talked about stand out event... Continue Reading →
While out for my so-called 'government mandated' two hours of outside time and exercise a few days ago (and let's be honest two hours of dedicated exercise is something unfamiliar to most of us, even now) it struck me that while I have always enjoyed Teaspoonriverneck's two EPs Sunset's Trip and IV I hadn't actually... Continue Reading →
While The Recks have released a string of singles and videos since their debut album, The Beast From The Sea, was released in summer 2018 it has become somewhat obvious to those following the band closely that, up until now, everything has been drawn from that album, so it was particularly exciting when a promo... Continue Reading →
When Guernsey based pop band Kings released their first set of songs they did so as a series of singles they described as being Season 1, rather like a TV show. For their second release though that have been a bit more conventional as they've dropped four new tracks together as the American Rust EP.... Continue Reading →
At last summer's Vale Earth Fair a new stage debuted, The Sneakaway, focussing, for the first time that I can recall at the festival, not on music but on spoken word performances. Now the team behind it have staged a night at Guernsey's Guille-Allès Library featuring a range of performances (including some music) to mark... Continue Reading →
