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TommyGirard
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Word writer, radio talker, movie watcher, guitar basher, island dweller, wanderluster

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Some more new old photos, back to the early days of the St James Guernsey’s Global Collection with Jackson Mathod and Holmes opening the show - you can see the full set at tommygirard.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/g...

#jazz #musicphotography #livemusicphotography #gigphotography #globalcollection
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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My review of Michael Powell’s still unsettling 1960 proto-slasher, Peeping Tom: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/p...

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Peeping Tom (1960)
Being extremely familiar with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and having recently watched Georges Franju’s Les Yeux Sans Visgae, I thought it about time I get to the third in a triumvirate of revered pan…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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ICYMI my review of Angela Barnes and James Ellis at St James Guernsey last week… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

#comedy #livecomedy #standupcomedy #guernsey #review #comedyreview #livecomedyreview
Angela Barnes: Angst, with James Ellis – St James Guernsey – 06/11/25
It had been about six months since the last comedy show I made it to as I headed into St James Guernsey on Thursday 6th November 2025, so I was very much looking forward to some good laughs from so…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Some more very delayed photos, this time around throwing back to Flexagon’s album launch at St James Guernsey with It’s Own Animal and Finley Gomez: www.flickr.com/photos/20312...

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November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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My review of Angela Barnes show Angst at St James Guernsey with James Ellis last Thursday: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

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Angela Barnes: Angst, with James Ellis – St James Guernsey – 06/11/25
It had been about six months since the last comedy show I made it to as I headed into St James Guernsey on Thursday 6th November 2025, so I was very much looking forward to some good laughs from so…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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ICYMI my review of the closing night of St James Guernsey’s inaugural Global Collection Festival… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/g...

#music #livemusic #newmusic #jazz #jazzfestival #altpop #altjazz #globalcollection #globalcollectionfestival #guernsey #musicreview #livemusicreview
Global Collection Festival: Myele Manzanza, Margomool and Maddie Ashman – St James Guernsey – 01/11/25
When St James Guernsey’s Global Collection series launched back in December 2022 with a show from Plastic Mermaids, Volleyball and SpaceSoul its cited long term aim was to develop towards a festiva…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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My review of Winter Night Song, the debut single from new Guernsey indie-folk band, Calico: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/c...

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Calico – Winter Night Song
Before I get to the meat of this review I have to say that while Calico’s debut single, Winter Night Song, may not have been on the radar for most listeners for me, due to knowing the members of th…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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My review of the closing night of last weekend’s inaugural Global Collection Festival at St James Guernsey: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/g...

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#jazz
#globalcollection
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Global Collection Festival: Myele Manzanza, Margomool and Maddie Ashman – St James Guernsey – 01/11/25
When St James Guernsey’s Global Collection series launched back in December 2022 with a show from Plastic Mermaids, Volleyball and SpaceSoul its cited long term aim was to develop towards a festiva…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The Lego Nigel Mansell World Championship Williams Renault finally in its display case from Wicked Brick and with its Ayrton Senna companion pieces and a few mini-cars…
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November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ICYMI my review of ‘The Nightmare On Riff Street’ with From Darkness, Apothis and Skampi & Fryends at Canvas… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...

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A Nightmare On Riff Street: From Darkness, Apothis and Skampi And Fryends – Canvas Guernsey – 31/10/25
Guernsey has a long tradition of celebrating heavy metal on (or as near as possible to) Halloween night and while in the past the main venue for this was The Fermain Tavern, and more recently The V…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Last weekend some of my photos taken at St James Guernsey featured in an exhibition as part of the first Global Collection Festival - you can now see them at www.flickr.com/photos/20312...

#photography #musicphotography #livemusicphotography #gigphotography #livemusic #guernsey
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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My review of last weekend’s Halloween heavy metal spectacular at Canvas Guernsey with From Darkness, Apothis and Skampi & Fryends: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/a...

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A Nightmare On Riff Street: From Darkness, Apothis and Skampi And Fryends – Canvas Guernsey – 31/10/25
Guernsey has a long tradition of celebrating heavy metal on (or as near as possible to) Halloween night and while in the past the main venue for this was The Fermain Tavern, and more recently The V…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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ICYMI my in depth review of Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1982 legendarily lo-fi album, Nebraska… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/b...
#music #brucespringsteen #nebraska #electricnebraska #musicreview #recordreview #albumreview
Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
While I’ve heard Nebraska, arguably Bruce Springsteen’s first solo album – released on 30th September 1982, a few times over the years I thought it time to give it a proper listen again after…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A very snazzy new Wicked Brick display for the Lego Game Boy (complete with totally hidden extra details), just completes the set perfectly!
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November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Following seeing Deliver Me From Nowhere and given it’s recent reissue I thought I’d take a look at Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/b...

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Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
While I’ve heard Nebraska, arguably Bruce Springsteen’s first solo album – released on 30th September 1982, a few times over the years I thought it time to give it a proper listen again after…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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At Guernsey Arts, we believe that access to the arts is of paramount importance for all Islanders 💜 Accessibility is at the heart of what we do - which is why we are proud to champion the ethos of Purple Tuesday everyday.
An image featuring white text reading Guernsey Arts (white out logo) Proudly Participating in Purple Tuesday 2025. This is against this year's Purple Tuesday brand colours of purple and yellow, featuring a purple background and yellow dot design. An image featuring the Guernsey Arts pink logo and the navy blue endorsement logo of the Communication Accessible Scheme. Guernsey Arts has been accredited as Communication Accessible.
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Some more new old photos, going back to Christmas 2022 when The Nightmares took over The Fermain Tavern… you can see a full gallery of previously unreleased photos at www.flickr.com/photos/20312...

#music #livemusic #newmusic #musicphotography #livemusicphotography #gigphotography #guernsey
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ICYMI my review of For The People, the new album from Dropkick Murphys… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/d...

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Dropkick Murphys – For The People
Following a pair of more acoustic and folk-inspired albums based on the writing of Woody Guthrie, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys have returned in full force, for the first time since 2021’s Turn Up That…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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ICYMI my flashback to the 2009 Vale Earth Fair with Skindred, Dub Pistols and lots more… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/v...

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Vale Earth Fair 2009 – Vale Castle, Guernsey – 30/08/09
There’s no denying that for several reasons the 2009 Vale Earth Fair was something of a landmark edition of the Channel Islands’ longest running music festival as it not only saw one of the biggest…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Catching up with a release from a couple of months back, my review of the new one from Dropkick Murphys, For The People: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/d...

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Dropkick Murphys – For The People
Following a pair of more acoustic and folk-inspired albums based on the writing of Woody Guthrie, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys have returned in full force, for the first time since 2021’s Turn Up That…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A flashback, to the Vale Earth Fair 2009, including a full set of redone photos from the day: tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/v...

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Vale Earth Fair 2009 – Vale Castle, Guernsey – 30/08/09
There’s no denying that for several reasons the 2009 Vale Earth Fair was something of a landmark edition of the Channel Islands’ longest running music festival as it not only saw one of the biggest…
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November 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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As Spooky Season is over for another year (officially at least), here’s my list of what I watched: boxd.it/OmAsU

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Spooky Season 2025
So again as summer shifts toward autumn we head into ‘spooky season’, once again I’m calling it as September and October mostly because I went to see the Jaws 50th anniversary rerelease, a perfect bri...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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ICYMI my review of Les Yeux Sans Visage, aka Eyes Without A Face… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/l...

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Les Yeux Sans Visage, aka Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Georges Franju’s 1960 landmark Les Yeux Sans Visage (better know in English speaking countries as the far less evocative and more blunt sounding Eyes Without A Face, or even rather inexplicably and…
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November 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Halloween night at Canvas (of all places) with From Darkness, Apothis and Skampi & Fryends…
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November 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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ICYMI my review of The Return Of The Loving Dead for spooky season… tommygirard.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

#film #movie #horror #zombies #horrorcomedy #horrormovies #thereturnofthelivingdead #moviereview #filmreview
The Return Of The Living Dead (1985)
What happens when you take the sensibility of Troma, the movie making nouse of one of the men behind Alien and Total Recall and a soundtrack packed with eccentric 80s punk and new wave? Well, it wo…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM