Guernsey Gigs

Podcasting from St James Decibel Tower as a part of independent venue week, we caught up with McDermott & North, Volleyball, Play Nice, Odd Creatures and Talked about the importance of local music venues and the impact that live music can have on young aspiring artists.

We’re around the table again this time with Bernadette Kershaw and Kate Chandler talking about the music scene from the audience’s perspective. If you’d like to get in touch about any of the things discussed in this show please email guernseygigs@gmail.com

We’re back again this time in the same room! we have a bit of a catch-up and chat music music music!

Ozy chris talks to us about his involvement in organising the legendary Chaos festival and also some anecdotes about running security at events.

We’re chatting to Hollie about her songwriting process and multi genre interests. hollielucia.com

we’re chatting with Mikey Ferbrache about his work running Apocalypse studios and how he turned his passion for music into a full time music career.

we spoke to Christine Foster and Brett Stewart about the success of their lockdown quiz ‘Let’s Get Quizzical‘ that’s sweeping the islands computer screens during lockdown. Here’s some of the stage antics from their post lockdown in person event at St james.

Camille Brouard is chatting to us about her online LGBTQ open mic for Liberate her own poetry and music plus her involvement in the Guernsey Black Lives Matter

We’re chatting to Tom Girard again about his experience during lockdown and how it’s affected him as a music reviewer and prolific gig going fan.

We’re back again with Grant Sharkey talking about his online virtual tour and the new book he’s working on.

We had another lockdown catch up with Stretchy about his Damaged Disco live streams and the Flexagon project 7 nocturnes east   

We had another lockdown catch up with Mark Guillou about his daily live streams and his plans for the Sark Summer festival. 

This episode we had another lockdown chat with Kiya Ashton about running Upload Festival and her album launch of her latest album Chirrup 

This episode we had a catch up with Jon Bisson of St James and Sound about His future plans for both and the impact of a second lockdown on the island. 

This episode we had a chat with Grant Sharkey about his history with music, his connection to the island’s scene and the ongoing music project he’s been working on since 2013.

We spoke with Kiya Aston about her involvement in the hugely successful  upload festival and how that came about during lock down. We also took the opportunity to dive into her involvement in the local music scene and growing up in it. 

We had a go at podcasting over skype so we could all catch up on what we’ve been up to in lockdown.  

We’re joined this episode by the amazing Nessi Gomes, Lino Hermesh and some occasional murmurings from their baby Boudicea. We’re talking about Nessi’s starting point in the island music scene and their journey together forming a career around music.  Watch the live video of the St James concert mentioned in the episode, recorded by Guernsey […]

We’re joined this time by Claire Moxie and Tim Corbett of  The Space Pirates of Rocquaine where we discuss band dynamics and coming from the UK scene into Guernsey.  If you want to get in touch then you can write in here 

We’re joined this time by special visiting guests Will Pound and Eddy Jay where we get geeky about practice, trying out new techniques, sound engineers and all sorts of other musical nonsense.

We’re joined this time by special guest Mike Meinke AKA Buffalo Huddleston to talk about his time in france and his introduction to playing music, head on over and like Mike’s facebook page for a FREE copy of his album With My Headphones In.

We’re joined this time by a couple of special guests founder of The Peace Tent Stretchy and also psytrance composer and DJ Flexagon check out their music here

We’re back in the new year, this time we’re joined by Elliot Falla talking about current experiences studying music at university in Brighton and how it compares to Guernsey’s music scene.

Here’s another little flavour of some of the acts that played last night at our Unplugged Club. The club gets together on the first Tuesday of every month down at the Golden Lion, free entry. It’s a friendly welcoming space where anybody can get up and have a go at whatever skill level they are […]

We’re back, this time we’re joined by Jade Kershaw of the Vale Earth Fair and The Cor Damme Lars  and Gemma Honey also from the The Cor Damme Lars and The Rectory Hill Skillet Lickers

This episode we have a proper get together and catch up on all the festivals over the summer.        

Elliott and Graham wander around Sark roots festival with their roaming mics and catch up with a few festival goers and musicians about their summer festival/music experiences.  

Here’s another little flavour of some of the acts that played last night at our Unplugged Club. The club gets together on the first Tuesday of every month down at the Golden Lion, free entry. It’s a friendly welcoming space where anybody can get up and have a go at whatever skill level they are […]

This week we’re joined by The Ukuladeez where we talk about how they first formed as a band and their experiences along their journey to becoming a staple part of the Guernsey music scene.      

This week we’re joined by Mark Le Gallez of Speakeasy, Twist Records, The Crowman, The Risk, The Red Bones, The John Wesley Stone, The Sacred Hearts, Thee Jenerators and many more!  We track his musical legacy, hear some of his stories from the road and chat local music. (it was too hot to be inside so we recorded this one out […]

Welcome to another Jam packed episode of the podcast. This week we were invited to cast from the Sound Guernsey BBQ and interview a few of the younger bands to find out a bit about what they’re all up to and introduce them to the rest of you! So firstly we had a quick catch up with […]

Here’s another little flavour of some of the acts that played last night at our Unplugged Club. The club gets together on the first Tuesday of every month down at the Golden Lion, free entry. It’s a friendly welcoming space where anybody can get up and have a go at whatever skill level they are […]

As you all probably know by now we’re big fans of up and coming band and local legends Track not found, so we thought it might be fun (or a huge mistake we’re not sure yet…) to lend them our podcasting setup and give them their own show on our feed so they can give […]

This week we’re joined by Richey Powers and Ash Jarman of  The Recks where we take a deep dive into how the band formed, their approach to song writing and we talk about few of their trials, personal struggles and successes on their ongoing journey as a band.  

We’re back at our usual round table this time we have local legend Mark Guillou who has worked behind the scenes in Guernsey’s music scene for a long time now and has been involved in way too many events and festivals to name them all, but his latest endeavour is the Sark Summer Festival which we talk […]

We’re in St James for this super special episode with journalist and writer David Hepworth of  NME, Empire, Mojo, and presenter on the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test and also Live Aid. We’re talking to him about his new book Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars. huge thanks to the Guernsey Literary Festival for bringing him over and letting us have this chat. […]

Here’s another little flavor of some of the acts that played last night at our Unplugged Club. The club gets together on the first Tuesday of every month down at the Golden Lion, free entry. It’s a friendly welcoming space where anybody can get up and have a go at whatever skill level they are […]

  We’re here with Nic Dinnie of Hot Plastic, Alex & Her and Desmond and the Tutus chatting about his life as a full time musician, moving from South Africa’s music scene to Jersey and playing in cover bands, plus a little bonus clip of him playing at our secret show. Enjoy!     Watch the video of the […]

We’re joined this time by Jon Bisson of Sound Guernsey and St James talking about what inspired him to start Sound, where it’s heading and his plans for the future of music at St James. Enjoy!

We’re back again this Time we’re joined by our special guest, pride of Guernsey winner Tommy G of The Phantom Cosmonaut fame and BBC Introducing in Guernsey etc.. plus special guest co host Mimi bishop from the Ukuladeez  

We’re recording a regular podcast episode over the weekend, but for this special episode is we decided to give you guys a flavor of some of the acts that played last night at our Unplugged Club. The club gets together on the first Tuesday of every month down at the Golden Lion free entry. It’s […]

We’re still new to this but this time we’re joined by Joe Le long from Lord Vapour joining Greg, Elliott and Graham to hang out and talk local music. Here’s the photo we took at the end of the show.

Bare with us, we’re new to this. Greg, Elliott and Graham talk shop about local music.

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