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’...

Havoc Events X L’Islet Records: Alt-Rock vs Metal – The Fermain Tavern – 07/11/20

WhIle we all know it’s really not about any kind of contest but there is something tantalising about a pair of metal bands squaring off with a pair of ‘alt-rock’ acts in front of crowd at what, on its best nights, can be one of Guernsey’s best music venues. That’s exactly what we got tonight...

Fontaines DC – A Hero’s Death (album)

After Fontaines DC’s debut album Dogrel was one of my highlights in new music in 2019 it’s taken me a while to give the follow-up, A Hero’s Death, a proper listen in part due to the weight of expectation on it. From the off it’s clear this is a very different prospect as the first...

Squid – Sludge/Broadcaster

Every now and then you discover music in what feels like entirely the correct way and Sludge, the latest single from British psyche merchants Squid, is a fine example as, at a recent show at St James, I heard this music blasting from the PA before the bands and asked the DJ what it was...