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Alfie Butel – Mexico
I first encountered singer-songwriter Alfie Butel at Chaos 2018 when he and his band Mezra travelled over from Jersey to take part in the Sound Guernsey Battle Of The Bands, which they went on to win in convincing fashion. Having returned and impressed again the following the year, now, another year later Alfie has released his debut solo single proper, Mexico marking the next stage in the musical life for this still very young performer....
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Kiya Ashton – Anchor
Back in December 2018 Kiya Ashton released her debut EP, Sweet Decadence, to quite some positive response. Since then she has become even more of a fixture of Guernsey’s live music scene and, during the current break from live public events, has been a big part of the Upload Festival CI series of online streaming gigs which she’s now followed up with a new, home recorded, single Anchor. By her own admission this new track,...
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May 2020 Playlist
Click here to listen to my full 2020 playlist on Spotify Another strange month comes to an end but, at least where I’m living, on a more positive note as things start to reopen (though we await any kind of announcement about full scale gigs happening again). With that in mind I have another motley selection of tracks that I’ve been listening to this month – some brand new stuff from the likes of Coastal...
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Ten Important And Influential Albums Facebook ‘Game’ – Take Two
I’ve put together a playlist on Spotify of all of this so if you just want to have a listen, click here With lockdown in full effect the top ten lists trend has returned to Facebook and, despite having done it before, when I got nominated for the albums one I thought I’d get involved and come up with another 10. As with the previous one the challenge isn’t to name your favourite records but...
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Brave Yesterday – Everything, All At Once EP
Jersey based five-piece Brave Yesterday have been busy building a reputation for their poppier end of indie rock for the past decade and, while they’ve been quieter on record the last couple of years, have been busy playing live but now they are back with four track EP Everything, All At Once. Lead single My Vice starts things off with a tale of ‘a love at hurts’, to paraphrase the band’s Instagram post, that hooks...