***for full gig listings jump to the bottom***

Seasons greetings,

To all those celebrating this weekend – and hey, there’s a lot to celebrate at present – LengPleng wishes you an enjoyable and safe time around the traps.

Tonight, Thursday, the weekend kicks off in style in Phnom Penh, with Geography of the Moon at Little Susie, Joe & the Jumping Jacks at Oscar’s on the Corner, and regular weekly gigs as diverse as Elephant Bar Follies with Phil Javelle & Friends, Havana Nice at Sora Sky Bar, Alli G at HClub and the Cloud open mic.

For those pursuing Christmas eve action on Friday evening there’s a host of events.  An Australian community gathering tradition, Carols by Candlelight, kicks off at 5 pm at Odom Gardens, Le Moon Rooftop offer Chor Yee, Ros Chancinith and Summer Lee Carlson, and Cloud has a loud Christmas Madness night with Rose, Doch Chkae, As The Heart Betrays and Stiff Little Punks.  It’s old time 60s Khmer rock at Duplex with Miss Sarawan and K’n’E, and The Extraordinary Chambers are late at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kampot, The Schkoots land at DeliCious for a Christmas Eve show.

On Saturday, Christmas Day is somewhat quieter – highlights include Aguita E’Coco at Duplex, K’n’E at Oscar’s on the Corner, and Those Handsome Devils at The Harbour in Siem Reap.

LengPleng is doing its best to discover all the live music events coming up for International New Year’s Eve next Friday, there’s already a list to choose from at the bottom of the gig guide.

**For the rest of the gigs check out the listings at the bottom of the page**

The annual Radio Oun (formerly Kampot Radio) Top 100 Songs Of All Time voting has begun.  You get five votes, to be allotted in the order of your favourite down to the fifth.   For Cambodian-related music, in no order at all: Vannda ft Kong Nai, Alain Ou ft Theara Ouch, Geography of the Moon, The Goldilocks Zone, 12me, Astronomy Class ft Kak Channthy, Ernie Buck, ZyctDan, Miss Sarawan, Cecile Hinas, Dean Wolf Bailey, Sokunkanha, Gone Marshall, The Sock Essentials, Kampot Playboys, RJ Marshall, Little Thieves, Funan Beat Empire, Vibratone, Josh Chiang and Scoddy Bywater rub shoulders with perennial favourites Yol Aularong, Sinn Sisamouth and the Cambodian Space Project.  Get amongst it!  Vote at the Facebook page or send an email to studio@radiooun.com.  Vote closes 30 December, then tune in on New Year’s Eve from noon for the countdown.

This week LengPleng offers a review of the year from the vantage point of LengPleng Towers.  We want to hear from you as well – musicians, venues and audience – what were your musical highlights for 2021?  Send us an email:  gigs@lengpleng.com.

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The Leng Pleng Weekly Feature

 

Patchy cloud with some blue skies: 2021 in review from the vantage point of LengPleng Towers

In 2020 we appeared to have been spared the worst of the pandemic, and Phnom Penh was the live music capital of the world, with Siem Reap a creditable second, and Kampot not doing too bad either.  We kicked off 2021 with eight weeks of business-as-usual: while international traffic was at a standstill, January and February saw mini-tours around the country by Phnom Penh-based Blue Wave and Siem Reap acts Dean Wolf Bailey and Son Sabor Trio, and short visits to Kampot by the likes of Two Jacks, Little Thieves, Boxchords and The Sock Essentials.  Not to mention two Original Sessions – Jeff Baker and Mirasol & Arone shared a bill which included live painting (while singing), and Pisey Oum and Clara Shandler.   Then our world too got quiet.

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Steve Porte Photo of the Week

 

So long – let us not say goodbye, but au revoir.  Adrien Gayraud enjoying his farewell party at Oscar’s on the Corner, 16 December, 2021

If there are things that you know that LengPleng should know, please tell us and we’ll do our best to tell the world.

See you around the traps.

your correspondent,
Guillermo Wheremount

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

Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 23 December 2021

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 For DJs and clubs, we recommend Phnom Penh Underground

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Wednesday

Coming soon:

International New Year:

  • Hyperion Band at Rokku
  • Arome Khmer at The Plantation
  • Geography of the Moon at Kenny’s (Kampot)
  • Seila Records Rock Countdown featuring DarkStormz, Rose, Eternal, Plugger, Batbangers, Sweet and Doch Chkae – Livestream at Seila Records
  • The Extraordinary Chambers at Oscar’s on the Corner
  • Those Handsome Devils at The Harbour (Siem Reap)

 And afterwards: 

  • Winter jazz night, Intan with Stan & Andrey at Aquarius
  • Geography of the Moon at Karma Traders (Kampot)

 

By Weekly Wrap