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A little over a year ago Robert J. Hunter was in something of a reflective mood as he released his third album, Where I'm From. Now though, a year on and many more gigs under his, and his band's, belts all over the UK and he's to be found in more and loud and empowered... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show BBC Music Introducing in Guernsey started the new year with a look at two new releases by band's from the island. First was Track Not Found who released their debut EP, The Only Way Is Lost, just before Christmas. They spoke to me about making the record, supporting... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show As I've explored in my recent blog (click here to read it) 2017 has been quite an impressive year for music in and from Guernsey. For the December edition of BBC Introducing Guernsey I took a look through some of the best music and some of the live... 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 →
For the past ten years BBC Introducing has been championing new music around the UK, and at BBC Introducing Guernsey, I've been a part of that, officially for the last nine years. While BBC Introducing Guernsey marked nine years last weekend (you can find out more about that here), we got involved with the 10th... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show As BBC Introducing prepares to celebrate its 10th birthday, BBC Introducing in Guernsey marked nine years on the air while wrapping the 2017 summer festival season for its September show. I spoke to Jack Fletcher from Of Empires about their summer which has seen the slick rock 'n' roll... 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 →
Click here to listen to the interview In something of a switch of positions I was on the other end of the microphone on Tuesday 5th September 2017 as I headed into BBC Radio Guernsey to be interviewed. Across an hour speaking to Euan Mahy we focussed mostly on my work with BBC Introducing and... 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 →
