Rich Allo – Someone Up There’s Got Something Against Me

While Rich Allo is a name I’ve heard a fair few times, producing music out of Jersey, his new single, Someone Up There’s Got Something Against Me, is the first time I’ve given his stuff a proper and dedicated listen. Following up on a collaboration with Shea, The Man Up Project, that explored issues of...

A Weekend At The Vault with Gentle Suburban Boys, Granite Wolf, Bloomfield and Coastal Fire Dept – 09-10/07/21

Granite Wolf The weekend of 9th, 10th and 11th of July 2021 was one of the busiest I could recall in sometime when it came to live music in Guernsey with both Sark Fest and the Retro Festival taking place, along with several other events of different scales. I made the choice to head to...

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...

June 2021 Playlist

Click here to listen to the playlist A varied set of additions to the playlist this month including some exciting new stuff, some classics and maybe a couple of slightly less well known tracks. Of the new stuff I’m particularly exciting to be able to include a brand new single from The Wildhearts, as well...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands – The Nightmares, Tadhg Daly and Robyn Sherwell – 26/06/21

The Nightmares Click here to listen to the show It’s been another busy month of music with not just the BBC Introducing Stage at Arts Sunday but the first summer festivals in Guernsey and a bunch of new releases besides. My guests in session for BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands for June 2021...

L’Islet Records Presents Mike Meinke, Monica Dekker and Casey-Joe Rumens – The Vault – 18/06/21

Mike Meinke L’Islet Records continued their run of shows at The Vault on Friday 18th June 2021 with a semi-acoustic affair featuring three solo performers. First up was Casey-Joe Rumens (more commonly seen on stage with Kings or Last Of The Light Brigade) but since his appearance at Kiya Ashton’s album launch show at the...

Bloomfield – A Long Wait For Nothing

When new pop punkers Bloomfield dropped their debut single, Clay, last month its fair to say they piqued the interest of many and now, following second single Eulogy, their debut EP, A Long Wait For Nothing, has landed to quite some expectation. The same great pop punk sound that marked Clay is there from the...

The Nightmares – The Rudeboy

As I said in my review of their single launch show, Guernsey indie rock ‘n’ roll six piece The Nightmares have spent the last year or so solidifying not just their name (having previously been known as The Beautiful Nightmares) but their line up and their sound and, with the release of debut single, The...

Mike Meinke – Secret Information

Over the last year, while making occasional higher profile performances with Buffalo Huddleston, Mike Meinke has been busy building a reputation for his new band with The Honest Crooks and SkySkrapers bass man Charlie Holmes and Brunt and Lord Vapour (amongst others) drummer, Squirrel, and they’ve now dropped their first single, Secret Information. While it’s...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands At Arts Sunday – St Peter Port Seafront – 06/06/21

Eloise Fabbri and her band On Sunday 6th June 2021, for the seventh year in a row, BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands curated a stage at Guernsey Arts’ Arts Sunday event on the St Peter Port Seafront in Guernsey showcasing a range of new and upcoming artists and music. The day started with...