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Click here to listen to the show On my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show for November 2019 we had a live session, a preview a new album and a listen to some of the acts I caught at BBC Music Introducing Live earlier in the month. Hot off their latest tour and... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For my BBC Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show there was a lot going on being deep in the midst of summer festival season. With that in mind, as well as a little look back to the 15th annual Chaos weekend I spoke to some of the... Continue Reading →
With the sun beating down outside it felt rather incongruous heading into St James on Saturday evening after a couple of the island’s big festival weekends, but with some upcoming visitors in King Nun, live favourites The Recks and Track Not Found, Chaos/Sound Guernsey Battle of the Bands winners Case On The Base and the... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For the final BBC Music Introducing In Guernsey radio show of 2018 I took a look back at the last year of music in the islands. As well as reflecting on some of the big events that took place across the year, from the regulars like Chaos and... Continue Reading →
A year ago, when I was writing my review of music in Guernsey in 2017, I commented that it felt like a year when the bands and musicians in and from the island had all, collectively, taken a great step forward I terms of the quality of what was being produced and the professionalism with... Continue Reading →
I'm sure it's a trend I've mentioned in the past but more than ever the 'summer festival season' in Guernsey is, like it's larger counterparts in the U.K. and Europe, getting longer and more packed each year. Barely a weekend went by without some event happening and calling itself a festival somewhere in the Bailiwick... Continue Reading →
For the second year in a row the 2018 Vale Earth Fair, marking the Channel Island's longest running music festival's 42nd year, was split across two days with the first day again being run by Sound Guernsey and the second being the long-established event we've come to expect. To use an old cliché this made... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show With summer festival season in full swing BBC Music Introducing In Guernsey for August 2018 featured a live session from Savage Sons, a band who've been steadily building their reputation at those festivals as well as recently releasing their debut EP, Howlin'. The trio joined me in the... Continue Reading →
With one mini-tour, a set at Latitude Festival and several of the Guernsey's main summer festivals behind them, The Recks returned to The Fermain Tavern for a rare indoor summer show with three of the island's top up and coming bands. It may not mean much to many, but to locals The Cor Damme Lars... Continue Reading →
This is the first in what I'm hoping will become a monthly post I make with some of the highlights of music I've been listening to over the past four weeks. My aim is that it won't be just tracks I've featured either on the blog here or on my BBC Music Introducing In Guernsey... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 