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Greetings:

On Thursday in Phnom Penh, getting your music in early, you can find Poca de Feo at Botanico, The Ghost Boosters: Big D, Jeffro & Phil at Bouchon Wine Bar and The Extraordinary Chambers at Oscar’s on the Corner.  While in Siem Reap there’s Rod Tolentino at Fellini, Sokunthea & Andrej at Villa D and Andy Luna at Pasta La Vista. 

Friday evening sees Takeshi Band at Craft, Intan Andriana & James Atkinson at Le Vin and Hugo at La Petanque. Cambodian Drum Circle take on The Welsh Consulate and you can find Blue Funk: The Blues Walker at Duplex.  Visitors from the north, Those Handsome Devils are follow by K’n’E at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Andy Luna is at Arin’s and Rod Tolentino is at Nicky’s (Siem Reap), while in Kampot, Nico Thoma hosts the Jampot open mic at Karma Traders   and Arom Dontrey are at 1960.

On Saturday night things hot up early with a metal show: CÚT LỘN (Vietnam), Nightmare AD and Doch Chkae at Oscar’s on the Corner – see our LengPleng feature below.   Note early start at 7 pm and 10,000R entry.  Elsewhere Ace & Sam are at Botanico, Gareth and Pervez play Central Café, and Ng Elnarra & La Union are at Bouchon Wine Bar.  Later, Those Handsome Devils take on Duplex and K’n’E follow the metal show at Oscar’s on the Corner.

Don’t forget harmonica-player-around-town Colin Grafton has just released a book, Dancers, featuring many extraordinary photographs and a narrative “about a few people whose resilience and dedication helped to revive the classical dance after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge and Democratic Kampuchea.”  Find it at Silapak Trotchaek Pneik gallery at YK Art House, Au Cabaret Vert in Battambang, and at the bookshop at the National Museum.  Or Colin may well be carrying one or two.

The Leng Pleng Feature

Sweat, pain, suffering and joy: Cút Lộn & Nightmare A.D. on the road again

Screeching into Phnom Penh this weekend after a Friday night show in Ho Chi Minh City, to play on Saturday at Oscar’s on the Corner, and before dashing off for Siem Reap to play Atlantis, is thrash metal/hardcore punk band Cút Lộn, along with local metal band Nightmare A.D.  The visitors, and Nightmare’s Mia Priest, were good enough to answer some of LengPleng’s questions about the unusual brand of performance they will be bringing this weekend.

LengPleng: Your YouTube channel certainly play up your sense of serious silliness, way before COVID lockdowns made such lo-fi videos more commonplace – which is more central to the band, the heavy or the silly?

CL: Silliness, for sure. I don’t think we are that heavy actually – in Vietnam we played at many indie rock shows and with some live electronic music or DJ events. I know people for whom Cút Lộn is the only or at least one of the few heavy bands that they listen to and I’m pretty sure that most of the kids who listen to Cút Lộn do it more because of the fun vibe rather than because it’s thrash metal or whatever else metal. On the other hand, you can’t take the thrash away from it, it just works so well together!! So of course we don’t plan to abandon the 230bpm madness.

Read the whole article here

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

Back behind the mic: Jeff Baker chills at The Vine on Sunday, 7 August, 2022

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See you around the traps.
your correspondent,

 

Guillermo Wheremount
LengPleng.com
gigs@lengpleng.com (mailto:gigs@lengpleng.com)

Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 11 August 2022

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