BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: Kiya Ashton and L’Islet Records – 25/02/23

2023 is getting into gear as far as new music and live music go and that led to a packed show for my February edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands, which you can listen to by cling here. I caught up with Kiya Ashton who, not being busy enough with her own...

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...

Castle Nights and The Beautiful Nightmares & The Risk – Castle Cornet and St James – 31/07/20

The amount of live entertainment going on in our still recently post lockdown world in Guernsey is quite remarkable and, as such, on Friday 31st July I had a double header of an evening of live music starting at Castle Cornet for the Castle Nights event before heading up to St James for a night...

BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands: February 2020 – Magic Moustache and Bubblebrain Records

Click here to listen to the show For my February 2020 edition of BBC Music Introducing In The Channel Islands we had something a little different as I spoke to a pair of record labels from the islands about events and releases they have coming up. First was Guernsey based label Magic Moustache Records, the...

Sound At St James 2 – St James Concert Hall – 22/02/20

The first Sound At St James festival, a little under a year and a half ago, marked something of a relaunch of St James (or at least the perception of it) as a venue for more than classical music and rather staid, traditional entertainment. Since then a range of new live music events, as well...

Vale Earth Fair Weekend 2019 – 24-25/08/19

For the third year in a row the Vale Earth Fair expanded to a two day event with the main festival, this year celebrating 43 years, in its usual place at the Vale Castle on the Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend but with Sound Guernsey taking over the castle for the Saturday afternoon,...

Chaos 15 – Pleinmont, Guernsey – 28-30/06/19

After seemingly settling back into a winning formula last year, Chaos returned for a 15th time to the Pleinmont headland in Guernsey over the weekend of 28th to 30th June 2019. With two stages running for the three days it was possibly the most varied Chaos event yet with musical styles ranging from early UK...

Havoc Presents… Kings, Coastal Fire Dept, Vice and Kiya Ashton – The Fermain Tavern – 02/03/19

Back in November Havoc Events revived themselves after a few years away from organising shows with a metal night at The Fermain Tavern harking back to their former glory days. At the time though they were already saying they had plans to put on shows with a broader appeal and for their second event they...

Music In Guernsey In 2018

A year ago, when I was writing my review of music in Guernsey in 2017, I commented that it felt like a year when the bands and musicians in and from the island had all, collectively, taken a great step forward I terms of the quality of what was being produced and the professionalism with...