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Hollie Thorne For a second night in a row I was at the Cafe at St James on Saturday 7th August 2021, this time for an event billed as A Night Of Guernsey Songwriters with Hollie Thorne, Blue Mountains and Kiya Ashton organised by Sacred Works and NexT Events, though in a few ways it... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For my first BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show of 2021 I marked Independent Venue Week, had a brand new live session and, of course, our track of the week. For Independent Venue Week I spoke to Jon Bisson from St James in Guernsey who... Continue Reading →
Back before Christmas Robert J. Hunter escaped the UK lockdowns to return (temporarily) to the Bailiwick for the holidays and played a sold out show at St James Cafe. Given the success of that night and the continued lockdowns in England he’s stayed in the islands and so another show, this time in St James’... Continue Reading →
I don’t really know how else to begin my review of music in Guernsey and the Channel Islands this year other than to say something that has already been said far too many times over the past twelve months, that it has been an odd year in pretty much all regards. I also don’t want... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For my December 2020 edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands, the last of the year and falling on Boxing Day, I took back at the live music we’ve feature across the year on the show. Along with that I had a new session and interview... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show now Another month and another packed edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands with brand new tracks, live sessions and more. My main featured act this month was Coastal Fire Dept who I spoke to about their new EP Radio as well as their upcoming second... Continue Reading →
Anyone who knows me will know churches generally make me feel, at best, uncomfortable, so the idea of an album launch gig in one made me wonder quite how it would work. Thankfully the style of music from all of the acts selected by Kiya Ashton to help launch here second record, Chirrup, being all... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show After such an uncertain few months something of a sense of normality returns to Guernsey’s music scene on Sunday 30th August as The Vale Earth Fair returns and with that in mind I used the August 29th edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands to preview... Continue Reading →
Having originally been scheduled to take place in June, it looked highly likely that this year’s Guernsey Arts Commission Arts Sunday event would be another victim of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, given Guernsey’s rapid move out of lockdown and some hasty reorganising by the Commission it was able to happen on Sunday, August 9th... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show After five months away due to the pandemic lockdown, which Guernsey is currently very lucky to have had restrictions lifted from, I was back on the air for BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands on Saturday 25th July 2020. Having recorded the session for the show in... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 