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

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Greg and Joe of Magic Moustache RecordsClick 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 brain child of...
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February 2020 Playlist

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Click here to go straight to the Spotify playlist This has felt like another musically very busy month with Guernsey’s music scene getting back into its own swing after the usual quieter January and lots of other stuff going besides. From the Guernsey scene I’ve got a couple of tracks including one from Lifejacket who made their return to The Fermain Tavern and a...
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Sound At St James 2 – St James Concert Hall – 22/02/20

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard 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 as comedy shows and more, along with the older...
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The Hillbilly Moon Explosion featuring Mark ‘Sparky’ Phillips – The Sparky Sessions

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard While it’s only in the last few years that I discovered Swiss rockabilly swing band The Hillbilly Moon Explosion for reasons I’m not quite sure of Welsh psychobillies Demented Are Go and their unmistakable frontman Sparky (aka Mark Phillips) have been on the edge of my knowledge for far longer. After on and off collaborations between the frontman and the European band for several...
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Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Amongst the subjects of discussion beloved of heavy metal fans; from the relative merits and nuances of the sub genres of black metal to which band has the best cash in branded beer and how much of it can you drink in one sitting, one subject always gets things going and that is what was the true genesis of heavy metal (it certainly wasn’t...
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