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Greetings:

On the road this weekend, Siem Reap bands Jam-Cha and Scapegoat Candy are in Phnom Penh for shows at Oscar’s on the Corner on Friday and Saturday  respectively.  You can check out Scapegoat Candy‘s latest single, Sweet Little Lonely Soul, here.  Also on the road are Geography of the Moon, playing three nights at Prince Beach Club in Sihanoukville.

On Friday night in Phnom Penh the Phnom Penh Music Association presents Noel: A Christmas Concert at the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center.  Elsewhere Katy Lo Wing & Sharon Lui are at Green Pepper, Arome Khmer are at Craft and Lisa Concepcion is at Botanico, while Criztian Velayo is at Noisy Chili and Vanno is at The Velvet Room, and you can find MuXu at Voodoo Boulevard.  In Kep Kora Sunya Trio are at Kep Natural and PMAC hosts a new open mic at The Shack in Siem Reap.

On Saturday afternoon MuXu are at Paradise Home, later Arome Khmer are at Le Moon and La Union play Bassac Lane, and Sinville Roadshow are at Little Susie.  In Siem Reap, new band Angchords are at Ubuntu.

On Sunday in Phnom Penh, Sinville Roadshow are poolside at Villa Grange, Timon & Pomba are at The Vine, Brooke Palmer is at Back Street Bar and Joe & the Jumping Jacks are at Oscar’s on the Corner.

The LengPleng Feature

Field notes from the Bon Oum Touk Festival, 60 Road Studios, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Saturday November 25, 2023

Greg Beshers, of Joe & the Jumping Jacks among other Phnom Penh bands, was involved as a performer at the festival and also assisted backstage with sound.  He offers his thoughts on the night as it unfolded, with some insights into what goes on behind the scenes with such an event. 

“Where’s my f^&*ing flashlight?”  – unknown member of stage crew

We arrived onsite around 10 am Saturday, and much had been done already – the stage put in, main front speakers set and wired, the side stage speakers set and wired and the shells of the drum kit were onstage.  Now we had to fill it with amps, drum hardware, keyboards, microphones, cables – it took the better part of three hours get the stage set and wired.  The scene itself was surpisngly sedate.  Set up consisted of unraveling wires, taping mics to stands, dick jokes, flop sweat, lighting trusses, gigantic eskys being hauled in and filled with various liquids, Royal D being served chilled.  If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant kitchen, it’s exactly like that. Uncontrolled directional chaos that ebbs and flows and somehow gets the job done.  Eventually we discovered that both analog consoles were too noisy to work properly, so we switched out the cabling to a smaller 16 track digital board we could run by and iPad via wifi, but we needed more than 16 channels.  We’d figure it out later.

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Musicians: They’re Just Like Us

Cove multitasks by carrying merchandise and smoking at the same time.

 

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Steve Porte Photo of the Week

Rod Tolentino of Jam-Cha at the Bom On Touk Festival at 60 Road Studios in Siem Reap, Saturday 25 September

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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 30 November 2023

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