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...

Wet Leg – Self-titled

Ever since I first discovered Wet Leg last autumn, thanks to a great cover of their song Wet Dream by Lula & Gene and near incessant airplay on BBC 6Music, I have been captivated by the quirky, fun and fresh sound of their string of singles but I made a point of avoiding thinking too...

Penelope Isles, Volleyball, Lula And Gene and Russell And The French Boys – St James Concert Hall – 22/01/22

After a few weeks off from live music for a couple of reasons it was great to head back to St James on Saturday 22nd January 2022 to kick off my year of shows with the long awaited visit to Guernsey of indie band Penelope Isles along with Volleyball, Lula & Gene and Russell &...

Subliminal Girls – Vanity Project

Back in the mid to late 2000s a few Guernsey boys (Jim Rhesus, Danny Le Pelley and Jimmy 2 Shoes), along with a few others, based in London gained a modicum of recognition with a string of banging indie disco singles (highlights being Burn Koko and their take on Duran Duran’s Hungry Like The Wolf)...

Charlie Sherbourne – Some Sunny Day

Following a trio of singles in 2021, ranging from the full production piece of The Ballad Of Billy Bradshaw to the more lo-fi and direct duo of Wild Winds Blow and Lay Down My Soul Charlie Sherbourne is back with another offering, Some Sunny Day. By his own admission this is even more back to...

Dribbler – Biglife!

I may well have said this before but at the tail end of 2019 and first two months of 2020 there was one band who were becoming the band to see on the a Channel Islands music scene, Jersey based grunge punk trio, Dribbler. Of course soon after that things took a turn but, they...

Laura Jane Grace – At War With The Silverfish

In 2020 Laura Jane Grace dropped a solo album, Stay Alive, predominantly written and recorded in the early part of the pandemic lockdowns and now in 2021 she’s done it again with surprise EP At War With The Silverfish. As you might imagine it continues in a similar vein, mixing more basic sounding acoustic tracks...

Lifejacket and Lula & Gene – The Vault – 27/11/21

Lifejacket With the Christmas lights on around St Peter Port and Storm Arwen battering the island it’s fair to say there was strange mood about the place as I headed down to The Vault on Saturday 27th November 2021 for a rare outing from Lifejacket (not aided by several delays for the obvious reasons) along...

Sam Brace – Panic/Ride

Chances are I’m approaching this one from a slightly different angle to most other reviews that may be coming out for Panic, the debut solo single from Skinny Lister’s Sam Brace, as I was introduced to the song by it’s co-writer (along with Brace), Guernsey resident Adam Tarry. That said, a songs a song, so...

Robert J. Hunter, Hollie Lucia and Lula & Gene – St James Concert Hall – 16/01/21

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’...