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Greetings:

Tonight, Thursday, in Phnom Penh, Acoustic Battle #4 will be held at The Tin Hat, William Rosas followed by Blues Routes Renaissance contribute to the soft opening at House of Jazz and More in Tuol Tom Pong, and new Bassac Lane bar Rust Bar soft opens with Zakk Zoot.  Brett Perkins is at Cloud and later on The Silk Route, Muz Muskett hosts the open mic at Noisy Chili and The Extraordinary Chambers go late at Oscar’s on the Corner

On Friday night in Phnom Penh the big event is Carnival Youth from Latvia, supported by Japan Guitar Shop at B-BOX.  Prokum featuring Chor Yee start a two-night stint at Domrey Lounge TK.  Elsewhere The Sock Essentials are at Tacos Kokopelli, Greg Beshers is at The Vine, The Louisiana Layabouts are at The Tin Hat, Miss Sarawan are at Bat Muk Yu, Brett Perkins is at Little Susie and Adam Marsland is late at The Silk Route.  A loud Halloween at Cloud Rave and Grave Madness features Sam Rocker, After God and Doch Chkae, while Alli G & TheQuilas celebrate at Oscar’s on the Corner.    On the coast, Playing Mantis and Mr Zee are at The Bay in Kampot.

On Saturday night in Phnom Penh The Wild Rover celebrate their first anniversary with Dan Reidy,  while The Originals Acoustic Showcase at The Deck features Wakingyan, Brett Perkins, Alli G and KP Bunna.  The Pascalins are at Botanico and Ashe is at Itacate.  House of Jazz and More celebrate their grand opening with Mirasoul Trio, Jazz Sauce are at Au Marche, Two Country Drunks are at Tropico and Hometown Hangout host a Nirvana tribute.  Sleepin’ Tom is early at Oscar’s on the Corner, then Crash Boom Bang go late.  In Kep, Son Sabor are at Kep Natural, and in Siem Reap Pablo & Carlos are at Mex’d Up.

On Sunday in Phnom Penh The Vine offers a double-header of KP Bunna (early start) and Brooke Palmer (regular start), while Dave Zdriluk hosts the Sunday Sundowners open mic at Tacos Kokopelli and John Peter is at Botanico.  Later, Shaken Spirit are at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kep, The Lark are at Kep Art Bar.

Department of New Releases etc.

Adam Marsland has released a new video for the song I Thought I Could Fly.  Well worth checking out here.

MC Lisha has dropped a new video – They’re Forgot About Us.  Check it out here

Australian band PlanB, who will be visiting Cambodia once again this December this week got a write up in the Phnom Penh Post.

Geography of the Moon have a new video, I Came Here For, a song from their most recent album Aberdeen Hiroshima, celebrating the glamours of being a touring musician.

The LengPleng Interview

The Latvians are coming! – Carnival Youth

Simply that:  here comes Carnival Youth, on their first visit to Cambodia.  They are here as the guests of Japan Guitar Shop, who were impressed by their performances at Zandari Festa in Seoul in 2024.  LengPleng had a chat with Colin Hodgkins, of Japan Guitar Shop, to find out how this came about.

CH: Zandari was a great opportunity to see dozens of bands from all around the world, and we really made an effort to see as many of them as we could.  They played two shows, we played two shows, and never met them but we saw them perform, and they were outstanding.

Roberts Vanags, the keyboard player with Carnival Youth, was also happy to answer some questions from LengPleng.

LP: Congratulations – you’re coming to Cambodia. It’s not your first time in Asia obviously, but have you played much outside Europe? And forgive our ignorance, but what profile does Latvian and other Baltic music have in Europe?

RV:  Hello, hello, hello! Yeah, this will actually be our first time playing in Southeast Asia — apart from going there for holidays or longer backpacking trips — so we’re really excited to see how our instruments handle the Cambodian weather!  Lately, we’ve been focusing more on Latvia, as we took a step toward making an album in Latvian and doing some bigger shows at home. But in general, we’ve played around quite a bit — after a few years of crisscrossing European venues, we also ended up in Japan last year, and before that did China, and a few trips to the US, playing in New York and at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Read the full article here

Department of Mutual Support:  Friends of LengPleng

Please welcome The Wild Rover (check out their first anniversary party on Saturday evening), Botanico (live music Friday, Saturday and Sunday) and the band Crash Boom Bang (this Saturday and every Wednesday at Oscar’s on the Corner) as new Friends of LengPleng.  We are grateful for your support and look forward to mutually beneficial activities in the months to come.

Being a Friend of LengPleng is open to venues, acts, and even private individuals; if you value the service we provide please consider assisting us financially.   For a modest contribution ($25 for three months, $40 for six months, $75 for 12 months), you get the logo of your choice into the weekly email and onto the weekly wrap page, and an automatically click through to a page on our website for further information, photos, videos and so on – we like to think of it as an alternative to Facebook.

We also pay special attention when you have a good story for us – an upcoming event or an artist you wish to highlight.  Email gigs@lengpleng.com for further details or bail up Scoddy wherever you see him.

 

 


 

 

 

 

Being a Friend of LengPleng is open to venues, acts, and even private individuals; if you value the service we provide please consider assisting us financially.   For a modest contribution ($25 for three months, $40 for six months, $75 for 12 months), you get the logo of your choice into the weekly email and onto the weekly wrap page, and an automatically click through to a page on our website for further information, photos, videos and so on – we like to think of it as an alternative to Facebook.

We also pay special attention when you have a good story for us – an upcoming event or an artist you wish to highlight.  Email gigs@lengpleng.com for further details or bail up Scoddy wherever you see him.

Steve Porte Photo of the Week

Newcomer to Phnom Penh, Trey Wallace, making his debut at The Vine, Wednesday 29 October- welcome to Phnom Penh!

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Musicians, venues, punters:  if there are things 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 30 October 2025

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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:

Thursday 6 November

Friday 7 November

Saturday 8 November

Sunday 9 November

  • Red Hot Chilli Peppers tribute by Pepperoni Monks, 8 pm, Atlantis (Siem Reap) – $2.50 entry

Friday 14 November

  • Phnom Penh International Music Festival 2025 – Piano Music in European Salons, 7 pm, Raffles Le Royal – note ticketed event
  • Indie Rawk Fest Vol. 2 with Bullshit Boy (Hamburg), Left Hand Drive (Singapore), Soselo Summer and Johatsu, 10 pm, Oscar’s on the Corner
  • Niki Buzz Band, 9.30 pm, Hometown Hangout

Saturday 15 November

Sunday 16 November

  • Phnom Penh International Music Festival 2025 – Piano Music in European Salons, 7 pm, Raffles Le Royal – note ticketed event

Sunday 16 – Sunday 22 November

Friday 21 November

Saturday 22 November

Sunday 23 November

Sunday 23 – Sunday 30 November

Saturday 29 November

  • Harenchi (JP), 8.30 pm, Atlantis (Siem Reap)

 

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