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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 →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
There’s a definite feeling of ‘good timing’, if that’s the right way to put it (maybe appropriate timing would be better), to the release of Second Wave, the latest single from Jersey rockers Hot Juice as it's landed half way through the second week of Guernsey’s second ‘lockdown’. A year ago phrases like Second Wave... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the full playlist on Spotify The final playlist of 2020 and it’s a bumper one as I have 15 additions to my main playlist and a bonus ‘best of’ list further down too. First the regular one and it’s a mix as ever but there a particularly large amount of... 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 →
Back in April Jersey rock ‘n’ rollers Hot Juice continued their strong work from 2019 with single I Don’t Mind but then, it’s probably unsurprising to hear given this year’s prevailing conditions on the island, they went rather quiet. Now though they are back with another single, with some Slade like ‘phonetic’ spelling in its... Continue Reading →
Click here to go straight to the playlist on Spotify Another strange month in April as life under so-called ‘lockdown’ continues to one degree or another around a fair amount of the world. Thankfully there has been a lot of new music entering my world, along with a chance to listen to some older stuff... Continue Reading →
Continuing a run of new singles from Channel Islands artists dropping at the moment is Jersey rockers Hot Juice with I Don't Mind, following up on their EP from December, This Is What You Want. As the track kicks off with the sound of a live crowd it sets the scene for what the band... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For my December 2019 edition of BBC Music Introducing in the Channel Islands I presented a look back at some of the best of the live sessions we've featured across the year. Along with the sessions recorded in our studio from the likes of The Cor Damme Lars... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 