Our New Diary Welcome to our Autumn St James Newsletter that supplements the Fourth Quarter 2023 Diary, which will be delivered to every household in the week commencing 11th September.  If you did not receive your diary or would like another one, further copies are available from St James and at many locations around the island.…

a review by Tom Girard For a second night in a row St James Guernsey welcomed a visiting act to their stage to deliver a potentially rather special performance as part of their Global Collection series – in this case UK Britpop heroes Sleeper, in stripped back, semi-acoustic mode, with support coming from Tantale and Lula & Gene. With a more restrained sound than usual…

a review by Tom Girard A little over a year ago St James hosted one of the highlight shows from a visiting artist to Guernsey in sometime when indie folk musician Jesca Hoop took to their stage, so, when a return visit was announced as she tours her latest album, Order Of Romance, it was one I couldn’t miss. To open the show though…

a review by Julia Meredith St James had a greater-than-usual buzz of anticipation as we settled down for this most recent concert in the Fanny Davies piano series. We were waiting to hear one of Guernsey’s own, a product of the Music Service who left to achieve distinction at the Royal Northern College and Royal Academy…

an exhilarating debut with the GCOS Carmina Burana is a work that celebrates excess, both in Nature and human nature. This last Saturday in May, with the island almost promiscuously in bloom, skin bared to the warmth of late spring and the sun flaring like trumpets through the glass of St James, the timing for this…

a review by Tom Girard Following on from its launch back in December with Plastic Mermaids, St James in Guernsey kicked off their Global Collection series for 2023 with a visit to the island from upcoming, young, jazz trumpeter Jackson Mathod and his band with new local four-piece, Holmes, opening the show. Made up of three quarters…

a review by Tom Girard St James’ Global Collection series continued on Saturday 25th February 2023 by bringing a familiar face back home with his full band for the first time in four years in the form of Alderney’s Robert J. Hunter with support coming from Sark based troubadour Ash Jarman. Following successful solo outings at the…

Review by Tom Girard It was a couple of months ago, following a podcast recording event, that I pointed out that, in the 2020’s, it feels like nostalgia for the 1990s has taken the place of nostalgia for the 1980s as something of a money spinner for bands and artists from that era and, with that…

Leon McCawley - 15 Feb 2023 Review by Julia Meredith Until I heard Leon McCawley play, I’d never have considered so dry a virtue as ‘Respect’ to feature in my reasons for my being so utterly captured by a musician’s performance. But mulling it over with fellow audience members, it became clear that this was the overriding…

11/11/22 - review by Tom Girard Anyone who’s followed the musical career of Guernsey based singer songwriter Kiya Ashton closely will know that in recent months she seems to have redoubled her efforts to pursue her passion and part of that has been putting on a special show, Nocture, with a selection of other performers. The night…

Our New Diary  Welcome to our Winter St James Newsletter which supplements the January to March 2023 Diary, which has been delivered to every household. If you did not receive your diary or would like another one, further copies are available from St James and at many locations around the Island. The details are also on…

8 October 2022 Review by Tom Girard Earlier in the summer of 2022 the sad news was announced of the passing of musician Andy Coleman which, it was instantly apparent, had a profound effect on many in Guernsey’s music community which he had been a part of for several decades and so it wasn’t long before a…