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With summer festival season now in full swing I took the chance to reflect a bit of that on my BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands show on Saturday 25th June, which you can listen to by clicking here. While Chaos in Guernsey and Good Vibrations in Jersey were in full swing I caught... Continue Reading →
Click here to go straight to the playlist Can’t believe it’s already been a month, August has been a crazy one with loads going on musically for me and here’s a flavour of it. Let’s start with the brand new stuff I’ve got new tracks from Coastal Fire Dept, HOWL and Dan Ashplant with other... Continue Reading →
Vale Castle packed for the Vale Earth Fair Click here to listen to the show For my August 2021 edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands radio show it was a packed show of music from the islands. Thought the two hours there were brand new tracks from The Tarantulips, Flexagon with Mike... Continue Reading →
Track Not Found After a night of some of the heaviest music Guernsey has to offer in a suitably small and dark room (that’s no criticism in this case) Saturday 31st July 2021 was a rather different affair out in a field on the west coast for the annual Rocquaine Regatta and the Vale Earth... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show now I presented another two hours of new music from around the Channel Islands on Saturday 31st July 2021 and once again BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands was packed with a range of sounds. My guest in session for this month was the man behind A... Continue Reading →
At last summer's Vale Earth Fair a new stage debuted, The Sneakaway, focussing, for the first time that I can recall at the festival, not on music but on spoken word performances. Now the team behind it have staged a night at Guernsey's Guille-Allès Library featuring a range of performances (including some music) to mark... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For my edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands I took a look at two new releases from artists from the islands along with tracks from a range of acts. Joe Corbin joined me in session and to tell us about his new EP Fool In... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show For my December 2019 edition of BBC Music Introducing in the Channel Islands I presented a look back at some of the best of the live sessions we've featured across the year. Along with the sessions recorded in our studio from the likes of The Cor Damme Lars... Continue Reading →
After a couple of years where music in Guernsey had upped its game, across the board, to a level that continues to surprise many visitors to the island, or those who hear Guernsey based bands when they venture away, 2019 has had to me a slightly different feel. While the quality of music certainly hasn't... Continue Reading →
Every now and again a gig comes around that seems to catch everyone's imagination more than the usual and, a few months ago, when St James Concert Hall announced they'd booked the awkwardly but brilliantly named Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (aka PigsX7), this was certainly the case — then when it was... Continue Reading →
Tommy Girard 