Coastal Fire Dept

This Week This week Ozzy went vintage at rehearsals. He had a 1960s @SlingerlandDrum set, old @ZildjianCompany cymbals and a 1970s @LudwigDrumsHQ snare. The drumming purists might not like what he’s done to the snare (watch to the end). #drums #cymbals #slingerlanddrums #zildjian #ludwigdrums

Hey guitarists! How often should you review and tinker with your pedalboard? #guitar #guitarpedals

Hammer Hammer is another demo track we are working on. We’ll keep you updated on progress. #musicdemo #grungerock

Remembrance Day Today is Remembrance Day, a day to remember and commemorate those who have died in war and military service. It’s also a day to remember the human cost and sacrifice of conflict. #remebranceday #lestweforget

‘Bonfire Of Fevoured Egos’ Ten songs of punk influenced grunge rock. It’s our best yet and your granny won’t thank you for playing it. #grungerock #punkrock #upsetgranny

Tech Tuesday Here’s Ollie talking about updating his pedalboard and a mention for the @EHX small stone pedal which is going into it. #techtuesday #electroharmonix #guitareffects #phaser

Thanks Thanks to @TomGirard for giving a spin to ‘Everything’s Dead’ on @bbcintroducing in the Channel Islands in Saturday. You can listen again via @BBCSounds Which reminds us…should we upload our album tracks. What d’ya think? #bbcradio #bbcintroducing

Riff N This is Riff N…a demo for a song that we are working on (set to a live music clip). If it makes it through our rigorous testing, developing and cutting process…it’s destined for 2027. Wanna keep up to date with all things CFD give us a follow. We’ll let you know how Riff N is coming along. #newmusic #grungerock #rehearsals #demos

‘Gentleman’ A lot of male predatory misogynistic actions in the news lately. Fed up with hearing of and witnessing unacceptable behaviour towards women in his community Ollie wrote ‘Gentleman’ as a response. Released in 2022, it’s a live favourite and the music video featuring Ozzy as a real eccentric gent is still brought up from time to time. #gentleman

Good Musicians The majority of good musicians are in a few bands. Ozzy is in about three and helps out others. Saad is in two having joined The Doll Motel recently. Ollie is only in one band!!! Anyway, Saad debuts with The Doll Motel on 20 November at The Vault go and check him/them out! #guernsey #guernseygigs #indierock

Suits On Saturday We’re focusing on 2027 at CFD headquarters. Whilst gigging and new music is top of the list we’ve always thought about being strongmen in a circus. We have used AI here to put a circus background in this photo. #suitsonsaturday #circus #strongmen

It’s 2026 And over to Ozzy! #tiktok

Shout Out! Shout out to the Prime Paving Gsy guys! If you want to be in a music video next year…here’s Ollie!

Throwback Thursday It’s Throwback Thursday and four years ago almost to the day we released our cover of ‘Gouge Away’ from @PIXIES featuring Colleen on backing vocals. It is our homage to the hugely influential band led by Black Francis and we did a b/w B movie style music video to fit the vibe. Full video on our @YouTube channel. #pixies #gougeaway #altrock #surfrock

WORLD RECORD This is the final call for our Unofficial @GWR World Record for the shortest single ever released. It’s unofficial because Guinness closed the category a few years back but we all know deep down this is the real record. It’s got a chord change, bass, guitars, drums and a vocal…and it comes in at about 0.7 seconds which smashes the old record. We’ve had coverage all over the globe including plays on @BBCGuernsey @duggystoneradio @bbc5live @triplej and all over the place. Bloggers big and small have been talking about it and some Japanese sports network went mad for it (don’t know why we couldn’t understand it!). The extended version has been played on over 140 radio stations around the globe too! We did it because it was there to be done but we also did it for fun and to raise some money for @GSPCA It’s now winter time when young seals will be washed up on our shores and the GSPCA do an absolutely amazing job looking after them whilst they are vulnerable and then releasing them back into our waters when they are big enough/strong enough to handle themselves. You can buy the download or donate any amount you want via our @Bandcamp account (link in bio). We’ll add everything up next weekend, round it up and give it to the GSPCA. Maybe we could blag a visit to see any seals they are looking after and the new rehabilitation centre they are building! Thanks for donating, it will help us help them do their fantastic jobs. #animalrescue #sealrescue

Controversial!!! Controversial news from Australia. A pizza chef has been sacked for refusing to put pineapple on a pizza! We support pineapple on pizza but many (particularly Italians) do not! Where do you stand? #pineappleonpizza #pizzagate

Don’t Forget There is a lot of sh1t going on out there…hatred, division, clickbait etc. Don’t forget you can switch that off and listen to music. #musicisanescape

New (Bass) Guitar Day Saad couldn’t wait to tell us at rehearsals that he has a new bass guitar. He got it from @andertonsmusic and it’s a @FenderCustom 1965 Jazz Bass Journeyman Relic. Here it is and yes Ollie & Ozzy have been taking the p1ss because he now has a guitar with mother of pearl inlays and vintage tuners (band in joke). #andertons #fendercustomshop #jazzbass

CFD vent their ire! “Guernsey-based trio COASTAL FIRE DEPT. vent their ire on latest album ‘Bonfire Of Fevoured Egos’ – a ten-track arsenal firing frenzied salvos at all and sundry. Taking aim at corrupt leaders, megalomaniacs, demagogues, and hypocrites – the onslaught is delivered in less time than it takes to blast through Never Mind the Bollocks.” - MusicLoveMusic @MusicBradders have reviewed our latest album and caught up with Ollie recently. Have a full read today, link in bio. Thanks Bradders and big best wishes to you! #musicreview #musicinterview #newmusic

Check out this guy @plumesofficiel who sings to all sorts of animals often those that are rescued.