Music In Guernsey (And The Channel Islands) in 2021

A year ago, as I looked back at music around the islands in 2020, I said something along the lines of ‘here’s to things returning to normal in 2021’, and, while that hasn’t been quite as true a prediction as I think we’d all hoped, it’s fair today at that, for new Music at least,...

Vale Earth Fair Weekend 2021 – 28-30/08/21

While 2020 had seen the Vale Earth Fair reach a new height in a lot of ways, with a sell out on the day and one of the best atmospheres I remember experiencing at the festival, there’s no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic had made life hard work for the organisers.

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Vale Earth Fair Preview – 28/08/21

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...

Vale Earth Fair at The Rocquaine Regatta – Band Of Crows, The Erberts, The Roughtones and Track Not Found- 31/07/21

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...

Music in Guernsey (and the Channel Islands) in 2020

I don’t really know how else to begin my review of music in Guernsey and the Channel Islands this year other than to say something that has already been said far too many times over the past twelve months, that it has been an odd year in pretty much all regards. I also don’t want...

Vale Earth Fair John Peel Tribute Night – Thomas De La Rue – 28/11/20

Since its inception a decade and a half ago, following the sudden death of legendary Radio 1 DJ and champion of new music John Peel, the Vale Earth Fair’s annual tribute night has become something of an institution on the Guernsey music scene. Across five hours or so they open up the decks to anyone...

Vale Earth Fair 2020 – Vale Castle – 30/08/20

When it was announced that this year’s Vale Earth Fair would be able to take place on it's originally intended date of Sunday 30th August it was great news... since then, as it became clear the line up would have to be entirely bands based on the island and that it would be one of...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: August 2020 – Vale Earth Fair Preview and Elliot Albert Orchard

Click here to listen to the show After such an uncertain few months something of a sense of normality returns to Guernsey’s music scene on Sunday 30th August as The Vale Earth Fair returns and with that in mind I used the August 29th edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands to preview...

Vale Earth Fair Fundraiser with The Honest Crooks, Skyscrapers, Kiya Ashton, Dan Guilbert and Mickey Haimes – The Fermain Tavern – 27/06/20

After the return of live music the previous weekend the Vale Earth Fair staged their first event of the summer, with this assistance of The Honest Crooks, at The Fermain Tavern on Saturday 27th June 2020. For this they presented a varied night of music that captured something of the spirit of the Earth Fair...

Vale Earth Fair Sneakaway To The Library and Zine Launch – Guille-Allès Library – 14/03/20

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...