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A little over six years ago I started this blog as a place to archive some of the freelance writing I was doing for different magazines and newspapers, as well a seeing a place for original articles and entries related to my radio work. Now, as I hit 1000 posts, I thought I'd take a... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For the November 2017 edition of BBC Introducing in Guernsey I featured two of my most varied guests to date. First was production duo WITHOUT, aka Luke Vidamour and Ollie Smith, who've just released their new single Love Liike This. The duo told me about their work both on... Continue Reading →
Last night I attended my second Pride of Guernsey awards ceremony after being nominated, for the second year in a row, for the Moonpig Arts Contribution Of The Year Award. For some context the awards are run by The Guernsey Press to celebrate people in the local community in a range of categories from Overcoming... Continue Reading →
With the autumnal weather setting in and music events moving back into the island's indoor venues, I think its safe to say as we move into October that Guernsey's ever-growing summer festival season has come to an end. As with every year it seems more and more events are labelling themselves as festivals or have... Continue Reading →
For its 41st year the Vale Earth Fair once again took over the Vale Castle over the bank holiday weekend at the end of August with six stages of music across 12 hours. Not only that but this year's event spread onto the Saturday with Sound Guernsey presenting some of the island's newer and younger... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For the August 2017 edition of BBC Introducing in Guernsey I welcomed into the studio an artist who we've featured since the shows inception who is taking things in a new direction. I also heard from two of the bands who headed to our northern most outpost for... Continue Reading →
For the last few years Guernsey’s School of Popular Music (SOPM) have held a week-long summer school where they put youngsters together in ‘bands’ and, with the help of the school’s teachers, put a set together to busk in town on the Thursday before performing for friends, family and well wishers at The Fermain Tavern... Continue Reading →
After a summer packed with festivals and outdoor music events around the islands live music headed back indoors on the last weekend of September 2016 as The Fermain Tavern kicked off its ‘Awesome Autumn’ with the first Sound Guernsey gig of the new school year for under-18s on the Friday and Lifejacket, SugarSlam and new... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show Summer festival season continues in full swing with this month's BBC Introducing Guernsey radio show as I welcomed a band who've played all the big ones so far and I take a look ahead to the Vale Earth Fair's 40th Anniversary. Clameur de Haro have already played Chaos,... Continue Reading →
