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Calling all Classic Rock fans!
Our band, Southern Cross, will be playing at Bangkok Beat every Wednesday and Friday, first gig tonight. We start at 9.30 and finish at 11.30.
If you like Beatles, Stones, Free, Steppenwolf, Tina Turner, The Who, Deep Purple etc. and are sick of the usual live music churned out in Bangkok, come down and check us out.
And no, we WON'T be playing Hotel California.
Bangkok Beat is on Sukhumvit 7/1 (used to be Absolute 7)
Bangkok Beat...............Where can we find this venue? And who in the band sings Tina Turner songs?
^ Thanks!
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Originally Posted by puppy
soi eden :DQuote:
Originally Posted by puppy
hope things go well for you
It's the first venue on your right as you go into soi 7/1.
Our female singer will be singing Tina Turner. Certainly won't be me.
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Originally Posted by Loy Toy
Too close to the area where the blacks congregate. So I won't be going.Quote:
Originally Posted by puppy
The boss told me that they are not allowed in, as well as Indians and Arabs.
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Originally Posted by TravelmateToo close to the area where the blacks congregate. So I won't be going.Quote:
Originally Posted by puppy
What about Jews?Quote:
Originally Posted by puppyThe boss told me that they are not allowed in, as well as Indians and Arabs.
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Originally Posted by TravelmateToo close to the area where the blacks congregate. So I won't be going.Quote:
Originally Posted by puppy
In my experience that pretty much IS the usual live music churned out in Bangkok.Quote:
If you like Beatles, Stones, Free, Steppenwolf, Tina Turner, The Who, Deep Purple etc. and are sick of the usual live music churned out in Bangkok,
Same as the Five Star pub on Soi Cowboy. No Tina Turner though.
I'll drop in next week and have a gander.
Good luck and I hope you pack em in! :)
Bit far for me to go but best of luck anyway.
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Originally Posted by Loy Toy
I hope you guys have got work permits for this gig. I heard a couple of months ago that the new owners of Absolute 7, along with other bar owners in the Nana area, had received written threats from Lumpini Police Station that they would come and arrest any foreign musicians they found playing there without WPs as well as "fine" bar owners and managers.
Good luck with the gig anyway and stay safe.
I'll stop in next Wednesday myself... Hell, I would have probably been there anyway as I like the club and usually stop by at least one evening when I'm in town...
Do you know how to play 'Stairway to Freebird'??? :)
From who? Sunbelt Arseholes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Krumble
excellent, live music is (nearly) always good music.
From the management. Perhaps it was just Lumpini's way of setting a higher protection tarriff for the new owners. I notice that none of their bands are all Thai (most are Filipino), so they must have worked something out with the Boys in Brown or they would have been shut down already. It's hard to get WPs for musicians, unless you just have one band, have lots of Thai employees and can pay sufficient monthly salaries like hotels do. Mojo's under its old ownership had a problem because they told a Thai band that asked for an audition they had no interest in hiring Thai musicians which resulted in a police raid and no more foreign musicians for several years. Last time I looked they were back again. The old Tokyo Joe's and O' Reilly's also had police raids in the past looking for foreign musicians. At O'Reilly's the foreigners were tipped off and managed to slip away in time. Disappointed, the police threatened to confiscate the gear from the stage, in order to secure some baksheesh for their trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
Sorry, I don't know Sunbelt Arseholes or what his connection is with music bars in the Nana area.
The manager there is very well connected.
The police do want more money, but they will only get it if they allow him to open until 4am.
The golden rule is, if you pay the police, you get no trouble.
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Originally Posted by KrumbleFrom the management. Perhaps it was just Lumpini's way of setting a higher protection tarriff for the new owners. I notice that none of their bands are all Thai (most are Filipino), so they must have worked something out with the Boys in Brown or they would have been shut down already. It's hard to get WPs for musicians, unless you just have one band, have lots of Thai employees and can pay sufficient monthly salaries like hotels do. Mojo's under its old ownership had a problem because they told a Thai band that asked for an audition they had no interest in hiring Thai musicians which resulted in a police raid and no more foreign musicians for several years. Last time I looked they were back again. The old Tokyo Joe's and O' Reilly's also had police raids in the past looking for foreign musicians. At O'Reilly's the foreigners were tipped off and managed to slip away in time. Disappointed, the police threatened to confiscate the gear from the stage, in order to secure some baksheesh for their trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
Sorry, I don't know Sunbelt Arseholes or what his connection is with music bars in the Nana area.
Not always mate as you are just as probably opening a can of worms.Quote:
Originally Posted by puppy
Maybe I will drop in tomorrow night and if all goes to plan.
What instrument do you play as I don't want to ask the bouncers if I can meet puppy! :mid:
considering that there is always an off duty policeman or 2 sitting around the end of soi 7/1 just past subway , they do have a good idea as to what is going on in that soiQuote:
Originally Posted by puppy
I wouldn't bother. We are not there any more!
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Originally Posted by Loy Toy
Well that was quite a long residency then! WTF happened?Quote:
Originally Posted by puppy
Where else are you playing or has the band disbanded?
Well, as you know it's quite a dancy sort of place.
We passed our 6 song audition, consisting of:
Free - All Right Now
Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends
James Brown - I feel good
Wild Cherry - Play that funky music
Spencer Davis - Gimme some lovin'
We always got a good reaction from the audience, but the French manager told me that he went around members of the audience asking them what they thought and apparantly a large perentage only thought it was so-so.
Funny thing is, that everyone I asked said they really liked it.
I just think it was the wrong sort of music for that place, plus the fact that these were our first 4 gigs together as a band and we were up against bands that have been playing for 5-10 years.
There's no point in getting depressed about it, we are looking for other venues at the moment.
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Here's a myspace link of one of our gigs there. Let me know what you think:
southern cross on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
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