WEEKEND AHEAD… April 20, 2012
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Music Fans…Open Mic resumes this Monday at DET 5, Suk Soi 8 from 8.30pm and this weekend we have plenty of choice, says Tambourine Man:
- Saturday: LOVEBONE - FUNK – The Pintsman
- Saturday: LOVE GONE WRONG play FAT GUTZ, Soi 55
- Saturday: CHAI BLUES – Nothing But The Blues, Thonglor Soi 13
- Sunday: BLUES JAM at Tokyo Joes
- Monday: OPEN FLOOR at DET 5, Suk Soi 8
Eddie’s Back – at Tokyo Joe’s – Tonite! April 14, 2012
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Want the real inside track? Eddie Baytos is back in town flat hunting and he ain’t interested anywhere above Ekkamai or $80,000! Meantime he’s sniffing about town rustling up gigs with the local branch of the Nervis Brothers, which we know already has to include at least Benny White on drums and Joe Cummins on guitar with Eddy giving his custom-made washboard big licks and tickling the ivories on his made-to-measure accordion. Always great grooves and great tunes from a master of the New Orleans Cajun boogie school and from a man who learned his skills when Vaudeville was still your only entry point to the big time working the boards of America. (more…)
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Heroes: Mike Bloomfield April 7, 2012
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Michael Bernard “Mike” Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, since he rarely sang before 1969–70. Respected for his fluid guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago’s blues legends even before he achieved individual fame, and was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960s revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music. In 2003 he was ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone‘s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.
Week Ahead (or not) in Music March 30, 2012
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- Monday Open Mic at DET 5, Sukhumvit Soi 8 on holiday until Apr 23rd!
- Not forgetting blues every night at Adhere 13th by Khao San Rd
- and jazz at Brown Sugar, opposite side of Khao San Rd from Adhere
- and great sounds at Saxophone at Victory Monument
- Whassup at Nothing But the Blues on Thonglor Soi 13?
- and at Fat Gutz on Thong Lor 12?
- and here too…LIVE in BANGKOK
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Billy The Mountain: Tides of Mercy Latest March 28, 2012
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UK and Bangkok-based Billy The Mountain, the awesome band delivering an eclectic mix of music that defies immediate classification, has released their latest album – Tides of Mercy to iTunes and Spotify et al – with some 14 tracks finally mastered for worldwide release. (Talks we hear, with a major label looking to launch the album outside the original independent label format are still ongoing while band frontman and songsmith Mekong Dr Blues has also exclusively revealed that the band’s label also arranged for the re-mastering of their classic first album Drifting To Valhalla, which has been simultaneously released on iTunes, packaged with the new Tides of Mercy CD. The new album Tides of Mercy features artists from around the world with the recording done as far afield as Bangkok, Stockholm, Rome and Copenhagen.
Jungle Reading March 26, 2012
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There’s not a Greil Marcus
book out there we wouldn’t
recommend.
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Help TJ’s Help The Kids March 20, 2012
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It’s that time of the year again where we dig deep into our pockets and help the kids at Father Joe’s Mercy Centre down in Klong Toey with three nights of some of the best live music available in Bangkok. The way TJ’s boss Jeff T figures it, if everybody donates a thousand baht we can raise a record breaking amount. There will be a donation box available and as these are little kids with HIV we are talking about he urges you and we do too, to break the piggy bank and get those 1,000 Baht bills unfurled. As you may know, with the previous Music 4 Kidz we have raised over 300,000 Baht for Father Joe and the Mercy Centre and can proudly say that this is truly music making a difference. There will be a limited number of T-Shirts for sale as well, and all profits will be donated to the Mercy Centre, and for this occasion we will be unveiling the Genuine Silver Tokyo Joe’s Pin, also only available in a very limited quantity. There are 10 bands participating and all of them are playing for free - which in itself represents a sizeable donation. Sunday will also see some of the best Bangkok has to offer jamming…
Schedule Friday is as follows:
- 8pm Dr. Blues
- 9pm Full House
- 10pm LoveBone
- 11pm Todd Tongdee w/ Ted Lewand
Saturday
- 8pm Jack Band
- 9pm Yamin & The Two Boys
- 10pm Celtic Colors
- 11pm Soi Dog
Sunday
- 8pm Peter Driscoll and The Cruise
- 9pm Ped’s Band
- 10pm Pro Jam
Look forward to seeing you this weekend….right?
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Fast Forward March 3, 2012
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- Sat WILDSIDE play Classic Rock at the Sundowner Lounge, Imperial Queens Park Hotel, Suk Soi 22 (4 sets from 7.30pm – wow! – musician abuse?)
- Sat SOI DOG BLUES BAND play at Tokyo Joes, Suk Soi 26.
- Sat THE STANDARDS and MATTNIMARE play at Club Culture (Democracy Monument) at the Popscene Indie Night, with DJ’d Indie Britpop between live sets. From 9pm. Baht 250 inc. 1 drink.
- Sat LOVEBONE (Joe Cummings new band) plays at WANNA FUNK @ THE PINTSMAN, (a new pub in United Centre, Silom) from 7pm. SCOTT HESS spins funky discs between live sets.
- Sun BAND JAM at Tokyo Joes from 9pm.
- Not sure what’s on at AD HERE 13th (Samsen Road, opposite Soi 2) this weekend, but it’ll be good!
