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Click here to listen to the show Earlier this month BBC Music Introducing celebrated 10 years of supporting new and upcoming music from around the British Isles with BBC Introducing Day. For the October 2017 edition of BBC Introducing in Guernsey then, I presented a show very much looking back and looking forward. The first... Continue Reading →
Following Brunt at The Golden Lion a couple of weeks ago and WaterColour Matchbox at The Vault last weekend the loud, heavy end of Guernsey’s music scene continued to be represented in St Peter Port on Friday 13th October 2017 as hardcore riff machine Granite Wolf and hard power pop quartet SugarSlam rocked the venue... 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 thirteenth year the Greenman MCC and friends took over a few fields at Pleinmont in Guernsey for their annual party weekend - Chaos! This year with the subtitle Voodoo 13 the festival featured two stages of live music for three days featuring everything from the lightest of folk to the heaviest of rock... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show Earlier in the month BBC Introducing Guernsey held its third live event with a stage as part of Guernsey Arts Commission's Arts Sunday event on the St Peter Port seafront (read the review of that event). So for the June edition of the radio show I featured tracks... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show The May 2017 edition of BBC Introducing Guernsey was a little different to usual with no live session but interviews with a range of artists and a look at the upcoming BBC Introducing Guernsey live stage on Arts Sunday. Static Alice were my main guests as they release... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show BBC Introducing Guernsey returned to the airwaves on Saturday 26th March 2017 with another two hours of music from around the Bailiwick of Guernsey. This month I was joined in the studio by Gregory Harrison, one of the people behind a pair of recent shows organised under the Guernsey Gigs... Continue Reading →
