Some exciting news to report for our favourite soul digger Geoff Achison - Atlanta’s favourite adopted funky/blues/groove guitar-playing musician hailing from Frankston, Australia.

We learned this week from his management that the fine folks at Guitar Player Magazine, who know a thing or two about this sort of stuff, have conducted a readers’ poll that placed Geoff Achison amongst the “Top Ten Hottest New Guitarists!” It’s in the June ‘08 issue (p.64) in case you’d like to pick one up, or check up on this. A wonderful honour indeed.

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A song featuring a ‘fictional’ Bangkok bar girl written by Bangkok-based band Billy The Mountain and featured on their new Drifting To Valhalla album has topped an industry A&R playlist just weeks after its general release.

A&R CHART

Band manager Tom Gray told BangkokJungle from Detroit that the song Mem Will Dance has had a huge response across the Net and has dominated charts on most sites where it is featured.

“It’s the most played on www.noisehead.com too and it’s a great rocking contemporary tune … probably it has been so well received everywhere because it hits the spot in terms of its fine hook, the groove, the melody and feel and it’s beautifully produced too…the perfect hit combination.”

At Noriega’s on Silom Soi 4 Thursday DOCTOR BLUES hosts the SINGER/SONGWRITERS OPEN MIC. NIGHT from 9.00pm. All welcome. A night for musicians and lovers of spontaneous live music. If you don’t write your own songs, you can sing songs by any singer/songwriter! Instrumentalists can jam with the band. Get on down!

Friday U-BLUES play from 9.00pm to 10.30pm, and then CELTIC COLOURS take over until approaching closing time…errr…2.00am?

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Internationally famed writer and Emmy-nominated production designer Jim Newport and his musical alter-ego ‘Jimmy Fame’ (a “blues shouter” fresh from an appearance at the Phuket International Blues Festival) will appear at Tokyo Joe’s Blues Club on Tuesday May 13 at 9:00 pm.

The evening will include readings from his latest book “Chasing Jimi” followed by an all-star Jimi Hendrix Blues Jam featuring Jimmy Fame (Newport), Dr. Blues and other surprise guests.

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John Lennon’s former girlfriend May Pang claims that the musician was seriously considering a live Beatles reunion. Pang, who was Lennon’s companion during his mid-1970’s separation from Yoko Ono, revealed the details of Lennon’s plans to California’s Cerritos College radio station.

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Bob Dylan will be playing a handful of North American dates this month just prior to his three month European tour. Dylan will play one U.S. show in Massachusetts before hitting five cities throughout Canada.

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Right this second - from Brooklyn to Brisbane, Capetown to Kansas City - they’re making new noise. It’s the hip-hop-adelic-roots-reggae-rock-tronica-pop-jazz of the moment. You won’t hear it on the radio, or find it in the charts. But every day, the world’s new artists keep right on making it. They can’t help it. They’re noiseheads. So are their fans. And so are we. If you think you might be one of us, hang around.

WWW.NOISEHEAD.COM

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Through reckless use of hairspray, spandex, make-up, just plain goofy stage moves and even sillier videos, ‘80s hair-metal bands made themselves the butts of some pretty obvious jokes. Are they really that bad … the hair … the unfortunate covers…? Check out the all time mental metal band opinion polls … HERE

Buzz In The Bizz by Benny White

Ever thought about starting your own label? Many people have already done so, and more are taking the plunge than ever before. The trend is now so prevalent that we decided to take a closer look at what are some of the pros, cons and essential details you need to be aware of to be a successful label owner.
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Who is the richest British rock star, whose touring when and what’s up where…Right Here

After years in the laboratory pondering the challenge of constipated data pipes, Sir Brinsley McSporran, the noted Scottish genius and prolific inventor has patented the official BangkokJungle bandwidth tester, craftily providing graphic and indisputable evidence that your connection sucks…or otherwise.

Sir Brinsley claims that “if the flow of the Taska-Tweaka-Rillium-Trickle-O-Meter (TTRT-O-M) appears jerky, or halts, or is too slow or not continuous at all, your link is lacking and thus you can confidently call the Bandwidth Gestapo and sue somebody…anybody, for lack of current or a limp linkage!”

Sir Brinsley’s father - a sheep farmer - won the 1912 Nobbly Bell Peace Prize for being out standing in his field.

Locally-based groove meisters Billy The Mountain now have their new album Drifting To Valhalla featured on WWW.MP3.COM and available there for sale.

Band manager Tom Gray told Jungle reporters the album also has gone to nearly twenty other digital distribution sites including iTUNES and CDBABY, which will feature the new album once the clearance procedures are completed in four or five weeks.

Gray flies to the US on May 3 to negotiate potential tour dates and festival bookings for the band this year and next.