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The Trash Palace
The crowd surges forward. The singer, a skinny white guy, screams into the microphone, which has been taped to the top of a camera tripod. The room is so hot that water drips from the ceiling. Strips of linoleum are coming off the floor in long torn rolls of dirty plastic. The drums [...]
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 in [...]
The excellent instrumental surf guitar punk band The Klong Riders recently performed a nostalgia set at The Overstay, formerly a brothel, currently a squat, scuzzy guest house and sometime concert venue in Bangkok, Thailand. Plenty of beer spilled on the cracked linoleum floor, plus sonic terror and an audience as enthusiastic as a castle of [...]
The crowd surges forward. The singer, a 40 something skinny white guy, screams into the microphone, which has been taped to the top of a camera stand. The room is so hot that water drops from the ceiling. The linoleum is coming off the floor in long torn rolls of dirty plastic. The drums thud [...]