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...

Nick Coleman (with Callum Aitken) – The Doghouse – 19/05/23

Continuing his ongoing run of nights for new music at The Doghouse (which now look set to continue for the rest of the year) Garry Minto, aka Its Own Animal, invited The Nightmares' guitarist Nick Coleman to take to the stage and play a selection of his own, largely previously unheard in public, songs. With...

John Le Sauvage – Four-45

John Le Sauvage will be a familiar face to many on Guernsey’s music scene as he has been a constant presence for a good number of years playing bass and/or guitar and singing with the likes of The Half Day Fridays, JD & Folk, his current band Neon Fire and no doubt various others, but...

Le Beaubo – Ishmael

Formed in 2022 and quickly gaining a reputation for their inventive brand of groovy psychedelia Le Beaubo are, I’ll freely admit, a band I’ve not entirely got on the occasions I’ve caught them live, but still I was looking forward to hearing what they sounded like on record as they dropped debut single, Ishmael through...

Coastal Fire Dept – Outsiders

Alongside a live show to welcome a new guitarist, Guernsey grungers Coastal Fire Dept have got their 2023 going in earnest with the release of their third album, Outsiders. Broadly speaking this sees them pull together their last 18 months worth of singles but, in doing that, it consolidates the quartet’s shift in sound to...

Hollow Youth – The Darkest Times EP

Formed from a project put together remotely in early 2020 (due to one thing and another) by guitarist Martyn Brown and drummer Scott Angus, Hollow Youth are all familiar faces on the Guernsey music scene but this is the first time many of them have worked together in a full band setting. With the two...

The Nightmares and Stuart Leach – The Vault – 29/04/23

Sometimes the up close and personal intimacy of a smaller venue is just what’s needed for a gig and, on Saturday 29th April 2023, this was very much the case for Stuart Leach and The Nightmares as they took to the stage at The Vault. After an impressive performance opening for Republica in the relatively...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands – 29/04/23

On Saturday 29th April 2023 I presented another two hours of new music on BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands which you can listen to by clicking here. Across the show I looked at a few of the first outdoor shows and festivals coming up as we head towards the summer season with tracks...

The Bensons and Dan Guilbert – The Doghouse – 07/04/23

With their recent programme of bands playing their own material on Friday nights, Good Friday certainly lived up to its name at The Doghouse as The Bensons made an appearance as they gear up for a potentially busy summer festival season, with Dan Guilbert of The Erberts opening the show. It’s been a while since...

Speakeasy – Candy/Last Summer In London

Originally formed as something of a one-off ‘supergroup’ (for wont of a better description) in 2006, Speakeasy are made up of members of a range of bands who made their names as part of the late 1970s and early 80s mod revival movement, spearheaded by The Jam and their ilk, and have so far released...