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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...
May 30, 2020 by Tom Girard
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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...
May 28, 2020 by Tom Girard
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April 2020 playlist

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Click here to go straight to the playlist on Spotify Another strange month in April as life under so-called ‘lockdown’ continues to one degree or another around a fair amount of the world. Thankfully there has been a lot of new music entering my world, along with a chance...
April 28, 2020 by Tom Girard
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March 2020 Playlist

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Click here to go straight to the Spotify playlist To say March has been an odd month for all of us would be an understatement but with that, and particularly before everything kicked off in earnest, there was a lot of great music going on that I’ve distilled into...
March 31, 2020 by Tom Girard
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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...
February 28, 2020 by Tom Girard
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January 2020 Playlist and Tim And Sydney Mixtape

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Click here to go straight to the Spotify playlist A new year and so a new playlist begins but as ever I’ll add around ten tracks to it a month and post an update here – if you just want to listen to the tracks then head over to...
January 31, 2020 by Tom Girard
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December 2019 and Best of 2019 Playlists

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard As with last year’s December playlist blog I’ve got two in one this month with my usual monthly update and a more focussed ‘best of the year’ including some of my favourite new tracks from 2019 (you can also find one focussing on music from the Channel Islands on...
December 30, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Music in Guernsey in 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard After a couple of years where music in Guernsey had upped its game, across the board, to a level that continues to surprise many visitors to the island, or those who hear Guernsey based bands when they venture away, 2019 has had to me a slightly different feel. While...
December 28, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – November 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Another mix of things from doom to jazz to ‘Madchester’ this month. In brand new things there’s music from The Other World’s debut EP The Silver Tree, the debut single from the brilliantly named Those Fucking Snowflakes, the title track from the new Byzanthian Neckbeard album, a preview of...
November 30, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – October 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Lots of new music this month from various places and a couple of old ‘classics’ too. Starting off with stuff closer to home there’s new music from Byzanthian Neckbeard’s Extinction EP and the new single from Track Not Found. Further afield I’ve got tracks from King Nun’s debut album...
October 31, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – September 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard A real mix of stuff added to the playlist this month from several, possibly unlikely sources. From the Channel Islands there are tracks from Guernsey’s WaterColour Matchbox who put out their new album Pathways and from Jersey there are new singles from Hot Plastic (Time Bomb) and Hot Juice...
September 30, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – August 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Another busy month for music with a load of new music topped off with the longest running festival in the Channel Islands, the Vale Earth Fair, means another packed playlist. From and inspired by the Earth Fair is music from The King Blues, The Wakes and Lifejacket. Byzanthian Neckbeard...
August 31, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – July 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard With a festival and a lot going on, my July playlist has become a bumper one with double the number of tracks than normal. As ever some of these have more specific reason to be here while others are just songs that happened to pop up and strike a...
July 30, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – June 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Another packed and varied selection this month featuring, I think, more Channel Island acts than usual too. Monty Taft made an impression when he playing the BBC Music Introducing stage on Arts Sunday so his latest single Bloom is included and his fellow islanders from Jersey, Hot Plastic, feature...
June 28, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – May 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard May 2019 has been a varied one musically for me but has been highlighted by a trio of what could be called comeback albums. First came The Wildhearts’ Renaissance Men that saw the unlikeliest band of 90s Britrock survivors unleash possibly their best album in two decades. Then German...
May 31, 2019 by Tom Girard
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Playlist – April 2019

This is an excerpt of an article written by Tom Girard Another busy and varied playlist this month spanning skiffle and American folk to Neue Deutsche Härte and steampunk. A few things to point to more specifically include something from the original line up of blackened death metal band Darker Shores who soon make their return to the stage under...
April 30, 2019 by Tom Girard