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A little over six years ago I started this blog as a place to archive some of the freelance writing I was doing for different magazines and newspapers, as well a seeing a place for original articles and entries related to my radio work. Now, as I hit 1000 posts, I thought I'd take a... Continue Reading →
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 →
Back in March Guernsey Gigs put on an event that was a bit of an experiment, based on the idea of some of the open mic nights that take place but formalising it with randomly drawn selections of musicians being given 20 minutes to 'jam' and see what happens. Given that the first was a... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show On the July 2017 edition of BBC Introducing in Guernsey we had a festival special of a show with more besides. For my look back at Chaos Voodoo 13 I spoke to the winners and runners-up of the Chaos/Sound Guernsey Battle of the Bands, VICE and track not found, while... 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 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 →
For the 12th year in a row the Greenman MCC took over a few fields at top of Pleinmont in Guernsey for Chaos; a weekend of, in their word, 'bikes, beer and bands', of course my focus is always on the bands side of things. With two stages with music across three days the arrangement... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I published my review of the Jonah Beats mini-festival that happened on the first weekend of March at the Vale Castle, along with the launch of the compilation album that was put together to coincide with it all raising money for the Helping Jonah - Helping Others charity. Well, here now... Continue Reading →
Click here to listen to the show A new year on BBC Introducing Guernsey started with a lot of new music spanning everything from folky jangliness to raw hip hop to dirty blues to psytrance. The dirty blues came from Robert J. Hunter who came into the studio to record a four track acoustic session... Continue Reading →
