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Greetings:

Tonight, Thursday night get started with Two Busking Kings at Villa Grange, Sister Srey at The Velvet Room and Stu Cottom at Excelsior.  New act Silver & Taylor (see Passing Chords below) start an October residency at Hub Street Cocktails and perennials The Extraordinary Chambers are late at Oscar’s on the Corner.  In Kampot, GC-Kora Duo are at KAPAL and Rod Tolentino is at Republic Bistro in Siem Reap.

Friday night in Phnom Penh, Cove Aronoff & Frank Scarfone are at Craft while Cardboard Lo-Fi & Muxu blend it up at Chez Cri-Cri, Danny Healy Swing 3 are at Botanico and Vanno is at The Velvet Room. PRERNA are at Voodoo Boulevard and Sinville Roadshow [here interviewed in 2019] celebrate their return at Little Susie.  Montra go late at at Oscar’s on the Corner.

On Saturday morning Mimi & the Merrymakers are at Planta, later on Green Leaf Motif are at Seekers Spirits.  Little Susie celebrate their third anniversary Kevin Sysn and D&Y at Little Susie, while Treble Entendre are at Craft and DORE are at Botanico.  Cardboard Lo-Fi are at The Velvet Room and Japan Guitar Shop are at The Deck, with Montra at Oscar’s on the Corner.   In Siem Reap Giuliano & Bless are at Harry’s & The Welsh Consulate.

Passing Chords … a few things you might not know about


 

 

 

 

 

Silver & Taylor are Phnom Penh’s premiere lounge rock duo. They honed their act in the late night Parisian underground lounges, and now are bringing their dynamic blend of lounge, rock and pop to Hub Street Cocktails every Thursday night in October, from 9 pm to 10 pm. Featuring Jerry Silver on piano and vocals & Joey Taylor on vocals and schmaltz, you haven’t seen them until you’ve seen them.  And once you’ve seen them, you can’t unsee them. An experience truly to behold.

Do you have a pet musical hate?
Silver:  Liberace.  He deliberately pretended that he never copied my style but I was told by a very trustworthy fortune teller that he traveled in the future to see my shows.
Taylor: I used to have a kitten that had a terrible cough. We named her Lil Weezy. Eventually we gave her away. Also, band names listed in alphabetical order. Just because someone’s surname starts with a letter before yours, they get top billing??!!??

A private musical indulgence:
Silver:  Zu Der Ponderosa Reiten Wir by Heino, THE German male sex symbol of the 1970s. His deep sensual voice and his unequaled elegance definitely were a true inspiration to me.
Taylor: Beans = the musical fruit.

The year you first came to Cambodia:
Silver:  2004, when it was both wild and glamorous.  I miss the times when people were shooting blanks at the sky with rusted AK-47s while I rode my Daelim on Monivong Blvd full speed, and those naked ladies tearing my shirt while I sang When Tomorrow Never Comes at Uncle Moe’s.
Taylor: 1571 – in a past life.

An early music memory:
Silver:  1971, when I first laid my fingers on a piano in an old music shop on Nevsky Prospekt, at the age of four.  I composed my first dodecaphonic piece on the spot and the owner yelled at me – from the very beginning I knew I would always be greatly misunderstood.
Taylor: O Canada .

The last thing you had to eat:
Silver:  Albino shrooms with kumis, served in a fragment of a yurt that belonged to Namjilyn Norovbanzad and topped with Shagzy’s Scorpion Pumpkin sauce.
Taylor: Vegan foie gras.

A country you want to visit:
Silver:  Themyscira, the Land of the Amazons.
Taylor: Narnia.

A book or movie you keep going back to:
Silver:  Forest Of Insanity, a blockbuster from 2003 starring the incredibly talented Joey Taylor.
Taylor: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! & Viva Las Vegas.

What languages do you have?
Silver:  My fans would say I definitely master body language, and I am not too bad at French, I learned it to improve my flirting technique.
Taylor: I can say thank you in Albanian.

Your primary instrument, and when you started playing it:
Silver:  A squeaky nipple that my nanny brought from Obscura Oddities when I turned six months old, said to have belonged to Donald J Trump.
Taylor: Voice, I started right after birth.

Something people might be surprised to know about you:
Silver:  I am Roy Horn’s hidden son.
Taylor: I have a Master’s in Tarot & I’m allergic to cats.

You have a time machine and a magic ticket to one gig or festival in the past. What do you choose?
Silver:  The Village People live @ The Palace in Paris, France, 1978.
Taylor: The taping of Perry Como’s TV special Christmas in California or Barry Manilow in Vegas.

A question from the last participant: chicken wings – flats or drumsticks?
Silver:  I get my kicks out of sticks.
Taylor: If the drumstick has some girth, I prefer those. But i like sucking on the bones of the flats.

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Euan Grey surrounded by further horns with Funkalicious doing a practice show at Oscar’s on the Corner, 29 September 2023

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Weekly Gig Guide – week commencing Thursday 5 October 2023

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