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Seasons Greetings:

Friday night in Phnom Penh check out Geography of the Moon at Meta House, Silver & Taylor at Craft and/or The Sock Essentials plus Dave Z at Tacos Kokopelli.  You can also find Pocket Change at Back Street Bar, Green Leaf Motif at Voodoo Boulevard and The Lark going late at Oscar’s on the Corner. There’s a three-header in Siem Reap – Electric Soup, The Wildmen and Jam-Cha at Laundry and the open mic at The Mended Drum  Out on Koh Rong Sanloem, Graham Cain is at Lazy Beach Resort.

On Saturday in Phnom Penh Lisa & Jed are at Craft, Little Susie hosts a Christmas cruise with Aisha and Sinville Roadshow, while Joe Wrigley is at Noisy Chili, Joshua Chiang is at Cloud, and Pocket Change and Jesse Damani Synth Explosion are at Copacabana.  Later The Extraordinary Chambers are at Oscar’s on the Corner.

For Christmas Eve Sunday in Phnom Penh, Virginia Bones and Clara Shandler plus Geography of the Moon are The Vine, the Sunday Sundowners open mic is hosted by Gareth Bawden at Tacos Kokopelli, Robert Marleigh is joined by George Hess and Matthew Carnegie at Hemisphere Rooftop, Stu Cottom is at Bar Oz, while there’s a country music night at Lantern.  In a different vein, Mathias Aspelin is at Green Pepper and there’s a Chopin piano recital at Raffles Le Royale.  Sinville Roadshow are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kampot, Kora Rock Trio, Playing Mantis and Kellie-Kora are at KAPAL, and Graham Cain is at Yasmin Café & Pub in Sihanoukville.

Department of Bragging Rights: Radio Oun Top 100 Songs Of All Time Poll 2023

Voting is underway in the 2023 poll, with strong showings already for Geography of the Moon, Japan Guitar Shop, Summer Lee Carlson and Coz Collective, also Yab Moung artists Assia Sina and Daro.  Hear the entries on the RadioOun Facebook page (why not like the page while you’re there?) and/or listen to RadioOun.com.  Plenty of time to get your electioneering out – just make sure there are five different songs for each vote.  Polls close on 28 December.

The LengPleng Article

A Brief Overview of 2023 as seen from LengPleng.com

Any attempt to sum up a year will fall short – there will be omissions due to forgetfulness and/or ignorance, and notable happenings will be overlooked – but every year LengPleng tries to overcome these issues to remind the crowd of the past year.   Apologies in advance for what gets left out.

The year began, in a growing tradition, with celebrating the top place getters in the Radio Oun Top 100 Songs of All Time poll for 2022.  Gareth Bawden came in at number one with his song See Me Through; Ariane Parkes followed with escape, heal and the beauty in our moments of simplicity (and John or James at number six). The rest of the top 20 was filled out by Geography of the Moon and Phnom Penh based singer-songwriters ZyctDan, Joshua Chiang and Ernie Buck (resident-in-absence).

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What have we missed?  Next week LengPleng will publish the annual crowd-sourced roundup of all things 2023 – send in your dot points, short essays and hasty scribblings to gigs@lengpleng.com.

Musicians: They’re Just Like Us

 

Ariane works her bread dough.

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Steve Porte Photo of the Week

Chiet Ukham of the Kampot Playboys gives it all at Oscar’s on the Corner, 15 December 2023

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See you around the traps.
your correspondent,

 

Guillermo Wheremount
LengPleng.com
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Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 21 December 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:

  • The Busking Kings, 6 pm, 28 December, Villa Grange
  • Cardboard Li-Fi, 7 pm, 28 December, The Velvet Room
  • The Broken Cymbal, 6 pm, 30 December, Coconut Park
  • Geography of the Moon, 30 pm, 30 December, Craft
  • Mirasol Trio, 7 pm, 31 December, Le Moon
  • Trowsers Down plus Kampot Playboys, 8 pm, 31 December, KAPAL (Kampot)
  • Graham Cain, 9 pm, 31 December, Secret Garden (Koh Rong)
  • Mourin Terry & Alain Ou, 9.30 pm, 31 December, Cloud
  • Geography of the Moon followed by The Extraordinary Chambers, 10 pm, 31 December, Oscar’s on the Corner

 

 

 

By Weekly Wrap