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