Thread: New band's first gig

Hey, good luck. Keep pluggin away.

Fair enough mate and I hope you find a place that appreciates good music.

Its not easy being a house band and based upon my own personal experience.

We weren't the house band. We were only there every Wednesday and Friday.

I take it you play music yourself.

Which instrument?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Fair enough mate and I hope you find a place that appreciates good music.

Its not easy being a house band and based upon my own personal experience.

Originally Posted by puppy

I take it you play music yourself. Which instrument?

Bongos.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Bongos.

Thanks mate and I thought, and bearing in mind your wit and humour you would of nominated the "play the fool" for me.

Originally Posted by puppy

Which instrument?

Dddrrrrrums if the truth be known and I was considered quite good when I was younger.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Dddrrrrrums if the truth be known and I was considered quite good when I was younger.

Sure you were until your yellow submarine drum set attacked you.

That always reminds me of that old video I saw from the 60s, when The Beatles played on the Morcambe & Wise show. Eric Morecambe kept referring to Ringo as Bongo.

By the way, we are playing at Nomad's (used to be Noriega's) on Silon soi 4 this Saturday from 11-1, if anyone fancies popping down.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Bongos.

Thanks mate and I thought, and bearing in mind your wit and humour you would of nominated the "play the fool" for me.

Originally Posted by puppy

Which instrument?

Dddrrrrrums if the truth be known and I was considered quite good when I was younger.

Went to Bkk Beat last night to check out Southern Cross and was disappointed to find a Filipino muzak band, called Exotic, singing Christmas songs badly out of tune in their place. We gulped our beers and fled before they could get on to Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer or Frosty the Snowman. None of the staff could say when SC would be playing there again. Are you guys still playing there? I would genuinely like to hear some classic rock there.

I have now been there twice since the Frenchman disappeared and it changed its name to Bkk Beat. I cannot see any evidence of the extensive renovations they claim to have made. It looks exactly the same. They are obviously spending a lot more on music with two bands every night instead of the same house band playing only four nights a week. But both times I have been there they had only Filipino bands playing. The other one, Power Jam, was a lot better than Exotic. The backing band was much better and they had one good female singer, one OK female singer and one male singer who ought to go back to his day job. With its obsession with Filipino musicians and the multiple rotating vocalists format I think the new management is trying to go for a hotel lobby middle of the road musical wallpaper format. The problem IMHO is that the top flight Filipino musicians in Bangkok (and some are really good) already have contracts with 5 star hotels and the ones that are left over to do casual gigs without WPs are often not as good as the Thai bands available. Their only advantage is that they can pronounce the English lyrics better and banter better with foreign audiences. Anyway there were very few people in Bkk Beat those two nights, whereas Absolute 7 was always packed to the guwhales. Unless things pick up, economics will dictate more changes before long.

Puppy, I have just seen your latest post after posting mine above. Sorry to hear what happened at Bkk Beat. I haven't heard your band yet but I am sure you are much better and play more interesting material than Exotic who really are dreadful and sang noticebly out of tune on all three songs I heard. I think I will be giving Bkk Beat a miss, now I know their strategy is to bid for the leftovers from hotel lobbies. I thought the Frenchman had disappeared but maybe another one took over.

Good luck at Nomads. They have renovated it very nicely and there is now a good open space in front of the band. Things have started off a bit quietly as a result of being closed for several months but I sense some determination to succeed, since the inertia factor was cleared out along with the old manager who was a nice guy but only made occasional appearances at the bar.

The gig at Nomad's was great. Not too many people there, but we went down well.

The boss told me that in the Noriega's days, they never bothered advertising, but that's about to change with Nomad's. I reckon things are beginning to look up for that place.

Originally Posted by Krumble

Puppy, I have just seen your latest post after posting mine above. Sorry to hear what happened at Bkk Beat. I haven't heard your band yet but I am sure you are much better and play more interesting material than Exotic who really are dreadful and sang noticebly out of tune on all three songs I heard. I think I will be giving Bkk Beat a miss, now I know their strategy is to bid for the leftovers from hotel lobbies. I thought the Frenchman had disappeared but maybe another one took over.

Good luck at Nomads. They have renovated it very nicely and there is now a good open space in front of the band. Things have started off a bit quietly as a result of being closed for several months but I sense some determination to succeed, since the inertia factor was cleared out along with the old manager who was a nice guy but only made occasional appearances at the bar.