Guernsey Gigs

So we’re back…

What happened and what’s new? 
After a long stint working on the old Guernsey gigs site I decided to move the whole thing over to facebook after they created events and pages which become more and more useful for bands to promote themselves with, but it’s getting to a point now where events and pages are slowly becoming buried lower and lower in the news feed to the point where they are almost white noise, so I felt like it might be time to bring the Guernsey gigs website back, so we can once again have a central point to for events and information on local music and this time I have some help!

Who are we?
For those who don’t know, I’m Elliott Mariess of Brunt I work in Graphic design, Film, Photography and audio production, I started Guernsey gigs back in 2011 when I realised there wasn’t anywhere online to go for gig listings, it kind of grew from there… since I switched the site over to facebook a few other people have gotten involved…
Gregory Harrison of the recks and the skillet lickers saw the potential in hosting our own gigs and events and so together we devised the idea and format for the Jam nights and now we’re rolling out our idea for an unplugged club and we have many more ideas in the pipeline.
Andy Sauvage of Lifejacket then joined the team to contribute his coding skills and also his recording/production skills, so we’ve been working on building this swanky new website.
Simon Rivers of Clameur de Haro came aboard to help out with all the organising and planning
Tanyth Opie (yet to find herself a band) has also offered her help with coordinating finances so we don’t spend all the money we don’t have on putting on gigs we can’t afford….
Lee burton of Jawbone has also stepped in to be our counterpart in Jersey under the name Jersey Gigs (lots of work to do there so watch this space!)

So, what’s our aim?
Our main aim is to try and bring the Guernsey (and Jersey) music scene closer together and hopefully take it to new heights. Everything we do will be aimed at supporting and strengthening the islands music community and hopefully we’ll have some fun whilst doing it! Any money we take in for events or merch sales etc will either be for one of our chosen charities or will go straight back into this cause. We have plenty of cool plans that we’re going to try out and see where they go. Hopefully you’ll all enjoy them and want to get involved. If you’d like to join the team and offer up your skill set for the good of the music scene then drop us a message and let us know!
Watch this space!

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