Guernsey Gigs Unplugged Club – Local And Wild at St James – 04/05/22

Over the last few years the Guernsey Gigs Unplugged Club has become something of a regular highlight of my gig going from its origins in The Lion’s Den at The Golden Lion to its current incarnation at Local & Wild at St James. That said, what with one thing and another, I had missed the...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: The Nightmares and Charles Stenner – 26/02/22

Click here to listen to the show On my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show for February 2022 I spoke to a band playing their biggest gig and heard from an artist from Guernsey releasing a new single written and recorded in Canada. The band is The Nightmares who, after a successful...

Its Own Animal and Kiya Ashton And The Folkadelics – The Vault – 03/12/21

Its Own Animal After being delayed at the tail end of the summer, Friday 3rd December 2021 was finally time for Its Own Animal (aka Garry Minto) to celebrate the release of his latest album, his first since moving to Guernsey, Good To Be Home, with support coming from Kiya Ashton. Ashton opened the show...

November 2021 Playlist

Click here to listen on Spotify Another month with lots to chose from that I’ve whittled down to ten tracks for you added to my ongoing playlist for the year. In new stuff there’s Rhumba Club, IDLES, Courtey Barnett, Monster Magnet, Violet & Dave Grohl and something a bit different from Kiya Ashton from the...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Bailiwick Folk And Roots, Gregory Harrison and Tallia Storm – 27/11/21

Gregory Harrison and Nathan Arnaud Click here to listen to the show My BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show for November will be my last of 2021 (don’t worry I’ll be back on New Year’s Day) and features a real mix of stuff from dance to folk to metal and various things in...

L’Islet Records’ Superchilled with Albert And The Pips, Squirrel And Joe and Kiya Ashton – The Vault – 15/10/21

Albert And The Pips It was back to The Vault on Friday 15th October for another evening of live music presented by L’Islet Records, but this time going in a 'Superchilled' direction with stripped back performances from Albert &The Pips (FKA Eliot Albert Orchard), Squirrel & Joe and Kiya Ashton. Kiya started the night in...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Minister Blessed and Von Cassidy – 25/09/21

This month on my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show I took a look ahead to the upcoming Afrocarribean Jammin’ night at the Tav and featured our track of the week...

Sacred Works and NexT Events Night Of Guernsey Songwriters – Hollie Thorne, Blue Mountains and Kiya Ashton – St James Cafe – 07/08/21

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...

Upload Festival CI: Take 2 – St James Concert And Assembly Hall – 03/04/21

The Mike Meinke Band Three months or so ago I was at the cafe at St James enjoying an evening of acoustic performances from a range of artists for the first part of the first, in person, Upload Festival CI that had originally begun during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown. Then, the following morning, while preparing...

Upload Festival CI – St James Cafe and Online – 22-23/01/21

There’s no denying, as I sit here on my sofa on the day after the event, that there’s a kind of dark irony to the latest Upload Festival CI - but we’ll get to that later. The Upload Festival CI began during the first coronavirus lockdown in mid 2020 when local musician Kiya Ashton realised...