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  Pete Doherty plays impromptu Bangkok show

  Guru, Gary Boyle, Published on 17/01/2024

  » The Libertines singer talks to Guru about life, happiness and mango sticky rice.

• LIFE

  Bigmouth strikes Bangkok

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 24/10/2023

  » Shoplifters of the world unite and take the MRT, as Morrissey almost sang, because the English singer is making his debut on Thai soil. His 2016 concert was cancelled during a period of national mourning, but this time around downtown fans will be pleased to avoid the schlep to Moonstar or Impact, as Morrissey is playing the MRT-adjacent Samyan Mitrtown Hall on Nov 18.

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  Moving pictures meet still photography in a new Bangkok art book

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 15/12/2022

  » Swedish/Finnish fine art photographer Kimmo Kauko stumbled into his latest project by accident. Shooting in the petite private cinema of Bangkok's Friese-Greene Club, his model passed in front of the screen as the projector shone images from that evening's movie. Kauko grabbed his camera, freeze-framing the moment of serendipity and capturing the first of a series of photographs which are collected in his latest book Cinema After Dark.

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  Iceland's Sigur Rós brings unique sound to Bangkok's Moonstar Studio

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 25/08/2022

  » A band known for unforgettable live performances makes its Thai debut this Sunday. Iceland's four horsemen of the post-rock apocalypse Sigur Rós are bringing their singular live experience to Bangkok with a show at Moonstar Studio.

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  Indonesian pop star is ready to rock Lido

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 12/08/2022

  » Bangkok's rich variety of shows by visiting foreign bands was scuppered by the pandemic and the music scene is only now beginning to find its feet again. Music lovers have much to look forward to towards the end of 2022, with big acts like Maroon 5, LANY, Billie Eilish and Guns N' Roses returning to Bangkok arenas, along with indie darlings Sigur Ros and indie-leaning festival Maho Rasop, which has yet to release its full line-up.

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  Festival showdown

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 14/11/2019

  » Thai indie kids used to wish Bangkok had an international music festival -- now they've got two happening at the same time. Music fans will need to flip a coin this weekend to choose between Maho Rasop and Very Festival, both of which have international headliners and both of which are on Saturday and Sunday, only a few kilometres apart.

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  Framing life and death

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 14/08/2019

  » Some nights nothing happens, and some nights too much happens. For one crew of rescue workers -- volunteers at one of Thailand's largest rescue organisations, Ruamkatanyu Foundation -- each shift is predictable only for its unpredictability. Nights at their base beneath a Nonthaburi overpass are spent monitoring the police radio channel for its most commonly-used word -- accident.

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  A Bizarro birthday party

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 10/07/2019

  » If you're a fan of British indie band The Wedding Present, you'll have bought their debut album, George Best, back in 1987. And if you bought the follow-up, Bizarro, you did so 30 years ago, an anniversary the band are celebrating with a special Bangkok show next Monday.

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  Get your stoner-rock kicks at Pink Cloud Festival

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 21/05/2019

  » Some concert promoters are out to make as much money as possible, bringing in only the safest acts that are guaranteed seat-fillers. Others bring in their favourite bands just to see them play in Thailand. Supakit "Dew" Supha is thankfully in the latter camp.

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  Iceage returns to Bangkok

  Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 30/05/2019

  » Iceage is a punk band that doesn't make punk music. Since forming in Copenhagen in 2008, the band has fermented the passion and urgency of punk and distilled it over several cold Danish winters. They're a potent live act, discharging a heavy stew of Bad Seed energy and drawls from singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, who is almost too boyband-pretty to get away with it. He's also a rather polarising frontman.

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