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Bangkok is not a rocknroll town, at least not in the literal sense of the word. And the city´s burgeoning punk scene is a modest affair - a tiny conglomeration of young bands, some good, some bad, some ugly, who have few venues to play and no one to play to, except each other.
Last night, [...]
I attended a Thai festival at Bexleyheath in South East London last weekend.
Much to my surprise, one of the performers on the festival stage was the fantastic Georgia from Bangkok´s equally fantastic Ad Here Blues Bar. Georgia did some Blues and Jazz standards for a crowd of several hundred Thai and local punters…a great day [...]