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Greetings:

Begin the weekend early in Phnom Penh on Thursday with Stu Cottom at Villa Grange or The Blue Souls at Trattoria Bello; then go late with The Extraordinary Chambers plus special guest Gaby Courroux at Oscar’s on the Corner.

Friday night in Phnom Penh, Pepper Jam II (Issei Sakano, Keiko Kitamura & Colin Grafton) are at Green Pepper, while Arome Khmer are at Craft and Scott Bywater is at Botanico.   Later Green Leaf Motif open up for Temple Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, Salazar Quartet are at Villa D and The Welsh Consulate host an open mic.

On Saturday in Phnom Penh DORE are at Botanico, Ysabel is at Little Susie and DK Express are at Sundance.  The Deck are putting on a hip hop night with Matsumara Fishworks, PRE and Big Daddy Klang, while you can find Peter at Mayazon, Sister Srey at Rosewood and Alli G/Rockoustic at Cloud.  Stu Cottom opens for Temple at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kampot The Kampot Playboys and Chris Garcia are at Meraki and Low Season Riders are at The Bay.  In Battambang, the finale of the S’Art Urban Art Festival features The Blue Souls Quintet.

Come Sunday in Phnom Penh, Jive Buddies are at Villa Grange, Stu Cottom is at Bar Oz and the long-running Sunday Sundowners open mic at Tacos Kokopelli features guest host David Zdriluk.  The Originals acoustic sessions at Back Street Bar this week features Lewis McTie, Scott Bywater and The Fallen Apples (Mirasol & Gaby), and later on Sunday Lark make their debut at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Siem Reap, The Blue Strangers are at New Leaf.

This week the Kingdom of Wonder podcast features a chat with Cove Aaronoff and Colin Hodgkins from Japan Guitar Shop.  And speaking of which…

The LengPleng Feature Article

For the love of song – Cove Aaronoff

Cove Aaronoff, of Phnom Penh-based originals band Japan Guitar Shop, has long had a great reputation as a fine singer and songwriter, and is starting to do solo gigs now as well.  It was, indeed, high time that LengPleng got him to sit down and talk JGS and songs.

Normally a solo act later forms a band and then returns to being a solo act intermittently when it becomes harder to get the whole band together to rehearse or play.  You’ve gone the other way, you suddenly appeared with Japan Guitar Shop and only after a couple of years started doing solo gigs. 

That’s due to Colin mainly, and Eugenio.  They had been playing together over a summer, just for the hell of it, with the notion of having a band.  One day Colin said to me hey, I’ve got a proposition for you – do you want to be the front man of a band?

Read the whole article here

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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 15 June 2023

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For DJs and clubs, we recommend Phnom Penh Underground

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*Note that Wednesday events are often not announced until early in the week – check back here for updates*

Coming soon:

  • Green Leaf Motif, 8.30 pm, 23 June, Cloud
  • The Wildmen, 8.45 pm, 24 June, Laundry (Siem Reap)
  • Stu Cottom, 6.30 pm, 27 June, Craft
  • Healy Yasukochi Swing 2, 7.30 pm, 28 June, Voodoo Boulevard

 

By Weekly Wrap