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Now in its 14th year I think it's safe to say that, after the Vale Earth Fair, Chaos (aka Chaos Weekend or Chaos Festival) is one of the most established events in the Channel Islands music calendar regularly attracting visitors from Jersey, the U.K. and mainland Europe. Over that time it's developed hugely from a... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show BBC Music Introducing in Guernsey for April 2018 had three main themes to it. First was our live guests, Eli and Casey from pop band Kings. They played an acoustic session for us featuring the first three singles from their 'Season 1' releases, and they told us about... Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago Weymouth band The Surfin' Birds released a debut album that revelled in a love of 60s era rock 'n' roll of many flavours. Now, for their second full length All My Dreams, they emerge stumbling from a fug of hookah smoke to take us on a psychedelic odyssey to the... 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 →
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... 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 →
In 2016 the Sark Roots Festival appeared on the Channel Islands scene, late in the season and looking in some way like a cross between the wildly successful Sark Folk Festival and the Vale Earth Fair, combining a diverse selection of musical acts with workshops on various earthy subjects and the idyllic setting of Sark... 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 →
It's become tradition that the night before Guernsey's longest running festival, the Vale Earth Fair, a pair of the bands playing the main event take to the stage at the De La Rue in St Peter Port for a more relaxed warm up. Even with the Sound Guernsey event taking place at the Vale Castle,... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 