Maiden Guernsey and Back In Vraic at Castle Nights – Castle Cornet – 22/07/22

Guernsey’s Castle Cornet has seen a few invasions in its long history but none quite like the raid it’s South Battery withstood from two of the islands hardest rocking tribute bands on Friday 22nd July 2022, as Maiden Guernsey and Back In Vraic made a somewhat out of character appearance at KPMG Castle Nights. It...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: The Pips and Phoebe Over – 30/07/22

New music is, of course, the name of the game for BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands and that was no different for my July 2022 edition of the show, which you can listen to by clicking here. My featured artists this month were The Pips who have, over the last couple of months,...

July 2022 Playlist

Its a bumper update this month despite (or possibly because of) being laid up with you know what for part of it, if you want to just go and listen then click here to head to Spotify. Chaos happened at the tail end of last month so gets reflected here with the new one from...

Tantale and Kiya Ashton And The Folkadelics – The Vault – 15/07/22

As the bands set up on Friday 15th July 2022 at The Vault there was a certain atmosphere in the air, something akin to end of term at school or being ready for break and, as Tantale frontman Steve, pointed out later, it made for something of a festival wind down show following the previous...

The Dust – Valley Of The Kings

Jersey newcomers The Dust have launched themselves onto the scene (in a recoded sense at least) with debut single Valley Of The Kings. As the name suggests the whole thing has something of an Ancient Egyptian flavour to it and as the intro gradually develops that particularly ‘middle eastern’ or ‘Arabic’ (to use probably not...

Little Earthquakes – EP 1

The last few months have seen Charles Stenner reestablish himself on Guernsey’s music scene with a string of stand out performances including at the Guernsey Gigs Unplugged Club and in The Peace Tent at Chaos 17 but before that he was based out of Whistler, British Columbia in Canada and, while there, produced a series...

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 In The Channel Islands: Vale Earth Fair Preview, Tadhg Daly and Charles Stenner – 25/05/22

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...

Alfie Butel – Over N Over

Jerseyman Alfie Butel has continued his run of singles in June 2022 with Over N Over. From the off it’s clear a summer release is perfect for this one as it has summer vibes stamped all over it from its synth backing to the layers of brass, guitars and more than build up in eminently...

Local Music Upstairs At St James – Local And Wild At St James – 11/06/22

While it had looked like a more quiet weekend this weekend the somewhat last minute announcement of this show featuring five solo and duo acts upstairs at St James piqued my interest so I thought I’d head along. Elliot Albert Orchard & Callum began proceedings, initially joined by Pips drummer Jake Pemberton as Orchard, sat...