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Go further west
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 23/02/2020
» Throughout their decades-spanning career in the music biz, Pet Shop Boys have always operated within the realm of sophisticated synth-pop that advocates varying degrees of dancefloor abandon. For lyricist Neil Tennant and composer Chris Lowe, however, it's not just about the allure of club culture or pure hedonism. From day one, social consciousness gets woven into the sonic fabric of their music. "In a West End town, a dead-end world/ The East End boys and West End girls," Tennant sings about the class and wealth gap on their 1984 debut single West End Girls.
Mystical Moyo
B Magazine, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 07/07/2019
» I was never an Eat, Pray, Love fanatic and had already been to Bali when the book and movie came out. But Indonesia, a country made up of thousands of islands, is so much more than Bali.
Beyond beauty
B Magazine, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 16/12/2018
» The universe will have a new queen tomorrow. For almost 20 days, 94 beauty queens from around the world have descended on Thailand to vie for the crown. They have participated in the pageant's activities in Bangkok, Chon Buri and Krabi that brought them to a rooftop bar, temples, Government House and beaches, and tomorrow morning at 7am, one will be crowned the new Miss Universe by current title-holder Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters.
A Spiritual land
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/10/2018
» It's a particularly ghostly period in Thailand, where last Wednesday we witnessed the annual ghostly fireballs on the Mekong River and now we're preparing for Halloween this coming Wednesday.
Feeling all right
B Magazine, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 26/08/2018
» There is a stillness -- borderline boring -- to Scrubb's chosen mode of visual expression. The constant of stony faces and stock-still poses that embellishes all of the band's album artwork, editorial photo shoots and magazine covers is bequeathed on us too, as Torpong "Ball" Chantabubpha and Thawatpon "Muay" Wongboonsiri laugh through gritted teeth that it is actually a strain for them to smile for the cameras or to assume the role of a dancing monkey.
Made in Thailand
B Magazine, Pichaya Svasti and Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 22/04/2018
» What seems ordinary to some may hold special values to others. What's mundane to a local may be seen as precious by a visitor.
Chinese emigre confronted by reality in dream land
B Magazine, Jennifer Szalai, Published on 08/04/2018
» As futile as it can feel, there's a lot to be said for frustration. Having our desires and expectations thwarted lets us know where our selves end and where others' begin. "People become real to us by frustrating us," psychoanalyst (and master aphorist) Adam Phillips writes. "If they don't frustrate us they are merely figures of fantasy."
A border run with cause to pause
B Magazine, Oliver Fennell, Published on 25/02/2018
» I've now visited Myanmar twice -- for a combined total of some 30 hours.