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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.
This charming man
Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 26/03/2019
» Local promoters The Comedy Club and Live Nation BEC-Tero hit another home run on Friday with a show by top US comedian Jim Gaffigan, following their Jim Jefferies sell-out in January and preceding two Jimmy Carr shows this Friday. Fans of comedy, and of people called Jim, are having a good 2019.
The View's frontman cleans up and grows up
Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 05/10/2018
» What happens when a group of rambunctious Scottish musicians are given a record deal while still in their teens and then score a hit with their first album? Indie popsters The View fell willingly for the clichés of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, and threw themselves into a life of boozy mayhem.
Anger is an energy
Life, Gary Boyle, Published on 17/08/2018
» It takes Trent Reznor 45 minutes to say hello. He voices his surprise that it's taken his band Nine Inch Nails nearly 30 years to do a show in Thailand. They almost made it in 2014 for the aborted Silverlake Festival in Pattaya, cancelled due to the volatile political climate, so there was no small amount of anticipation ahead of their show at Bangkok's packed Moonstar Studio on Tuesday night.