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I was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia this week and had the opportunity to do some recording with The Mincers. Singer Zoe Zac and her merry punksters recently rolled in from Hobart, Tasmania to play a string of dates in Southeast Asia. Zoe organized two days studio time with producer Professor Kinski and we recorded two [...]
Bangkok based photographer Michael LaPalme witnessed many of the 2011 shows of Pussy & The Learjets, Bangkok’s loudest RocknRoll band. The Learjets have been defunct for more than a year with Pussy absconding to China and the rest of the band involved in other projects. Michael also shot The Learjets in the studio. Now he’s [...]
From the vaults…a new track by Pussy & The Learjets, who played Bangkok punk rock for twelve months and then crashed and burned, as any great band should. This is a cover on The Thirteenth Floor Elevators You’re Gonna Miss Me, a huge song. And yes, I played guitar for The Learjets. With Manis on [...]
Had the pleasure to hang out with Italian writer, traveler and former punk rock impresario Marco Ferrarese. Marco, who has lived in Asia for four years and is currently a resident of Penang in Malaysia, runs the website Monkeyrockworld, which focuses on young people’s travel and alternative youth culture in Asia, or as its author [...]
Punk‘s been pretty dead in Europe for decades and in the US, this particular counterculture never really took off. But in today’s South and Southeast Asia, young kids turn to anti-culture in an effort to distance themselves from ultra conservative pears who leave no room for personal expression. Punks in Burma playing secret concerts in [...]
Tom Vater reports on Pussy & The Learjets – Bangkok’s loudest Rock’n’Roll band – in the February issue of Traversing the Orient Magazine, published in Thailand and the Philippines. For more info on the band, visit The Learjets’ Website. Images by Aroon Thaewchatturat.
Swedish photographer Gerhard Joren has produced a short documentary on the birth of Bangkok-based band Pussy & The Learjets. The two and a half minute film documents the Rock’n’Roll band’s live debut at The Overstay on January 15th. The four piece, formed in late 2010, is currently playing dates around Bangkok, Thailand and will record [...]
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 [...]
Bernd Manis Enders and his gang of surf punk reprobates, the Klong Riders, returned for the all night Psycho Mama concert to the Overstay, Bangkok’s skuzziest hotel and most informal music venue, last night. The Overstay, in Thonburi, has all the characteristics, both positive and negative, of a crusty squat in Barcelona, Leipzig or Zürich [...]
Visited the Les Rencontres monster photo exhibition in Arles. Some 60 exhibitions show a huge variety of photography from reportage to conceptual art and everything in between. This years highlights, for me at least, included Taryn Simon from New York who shot a serious of stunning images called The Innocents, which document the stories of [...]