Chaos 17 – Pleinmont, Guernsey – 24-26/06/22

Following a year off for the obvious reasons in 2020 and then a shortened event in 2021 the celebration of bands, bikes and booze (in different orders for different people) that is Chaos returned at full strength for this 17th happening over the last weekend of June in 2022. Day One As is fairly usual...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Chaos and Benlem – 30/04/22

For my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show this month I spoke to some of the team from Chaos Events and we heard from Benlem who’s track Blue’s Clues was our Track Of The Week and you can listen to the show by clicking here. At the end of June, for the...

Chaos 16 – Pleinmont, Guernsey – 25-26/06/21

After missing it’s originally intended dates last year, for obvious reasons, Chaos returned to those fields at Pleinmont headland in Guernsey on the 25th and 26th June 2021 for a shorter, and in some ways smaller than usual, but no less action packed, affair. With that in mind the event was missing a couple of...

Chaos 15 – Pleinmont, Guernsey – 28-30/06/19

After seemingly settling back into a winning formula last year, Chaos returned for a 15th time to the Pleinmont headland in Guernsey over the weekend of 28th to 30th June 2019. With two stages running for the three days it was possibly the most varied Chaos event yet with musical styles ranging from early UK...

Sound At St James – St James Concert Hall, Guernsey – 27-28/10/18

For as long as I can remember St James, the impressive looking former church on the main road into St Peter Port, has been the home of classical music in Guernsey with rarely anything even bordering on pop gracing its impressive main hall, or at least that's the perception. Over the last year this has...

Music in Guernsey in 2017

When I first started thinking about what to include in my review of music in Guernsey and the Bailiwick in 2017 I was having a hard time thinking of what the big, defining aspect of the year had been. Other years there have been new festivals, large-scale events or individual bands who have really stood...

Chaos Voodoo 13 – 23-25/06/17

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...

Music in Guernsey – Review of the Year 2016

2016 has been another packed year for music in Guernsey and the Bailiwick. With more festivals than ever, events seemingly most nights of the week all year and many records released covering everything from acoustic folk to drum 'n' bass to heavy metal its fair to say the 'scene' is possibly the most varied it...

Ramblin’ Nick Mann – One Eye In The Past

Ramblin' Nick Mann has, over the last few years, emerged onto the Guernsey music scene with a sound unlike any other referencing the earliest of bluesmen combined with a knowing sense of his own Guernsey-ness. He launched his debut album, One Eye In The Past, at the Vale Earth Fair Unplugged event in January 2016...

A summer of music in Guernsey 2015

As we head into autumn and all the outdoor music of the events seem to be rounding both nationally and in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, I thought I'd take the chance to look back over a packed summer of shows highlighted by the islands' three big festivals, but with a lot more besides. May The...