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Amazing Thailand Dance With Me

Amazing Thailand Dance With Me

Howson leaving the 89.5 house

Howson leaving the 89.5 house

Phuket Music Scene: Time to take the Thai alternative?

Phuket Music Scene: Time to take the Thai alternative?

Phuket Music Scene: Original music in Phuket

Phuket Music Scene: Original music in Phuket

Lard Yai doubles New Year fun with two consecutive street fairs in Phuket Old Town

Lard Yai doubles New Year fun with two consecutive street fairs in Phuket Old Town

Phuket Music Scene: Jazz and Blues festival back with a buzz

Phuket Music Scene: Jazz and Blues festival back with a buzz
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Amazing Thailand Dance With Me
Amazing Thailand Dance With Me
Monday 6 March 2023, 10:24AM
Just what Thailand’s needs is this new tonic stunning film and beautiful music, a new video. The new song and video was launched today by Senator Weerasak Kowsurat the ex tourism minister of Thailand at the Hyatt Regency on Sukhumvit. A magical piece of work by creative genius and British Producer Will Robinson, who is known by many travelers who come to Thailand as “The Isan Project”, Will’s music and video creations continue to be popular amongst overseas visitors especially those in Phuket.
Howson leaving the 89.5 house
Howson leaving the 89.5 house
Sunday 5 March 2023, 11:00AM
After an outstanding eight years hosting Good Morning Phuket on Live 89.5 FM, we must bid farewell to Chris Howson. At the end of February 2023 the voice that has kept us entertained on our morning drive to the office departed the Phuket airwaves, to further his career and not have to wake up at 4am every day to host a breakfast radio show. His replacement is a familiar face and voice to all of us in Phuket, JP Mestanza.
Phuket Music Scene: Time to take the Thai alternative?
Phuket Music Scene: Time to take the Thai alternative?
Sunday 12 February 2023, 11:00AM
Musicians who have worked here a while have told me that it’s getting harder for bands playing Western cover songs to find gigs. Why might this be? Is it because there are too many bands? Not enough tourists perhaps? Maybe there is another reason

Phuket Music Scene: Original music in Phuket
Phuket Music Scene: Original music in Phuket
Sunday 8 January 2023, 11:00AM
When I go home to the UK, I am amazed to see so much musical creativity, with ordinary pub bands sometimes playing more of their own songs than covers. Such creativity has served us well, producing the best pop group in the world (The Beatles), the finest rock group (Led Zeppelin) and the world’s most creative solo artist (David Bowie). It is an astonishing achievement for a country of just 60 million.
Lard Yai doubles New Year fun with two consecutive street fairs in Phuket Old Town
Lard Yai doubles New Year fun with two consecutive street fairs in Phuket Old Town
Sunday 25 December 2022, 02:48PM
PHUKET: The Phuket Old Town Community has invited local residents and tourists to feel the New Year spirit at the renowned Lard Yai street fair on Thalang Rd. Instead of one weekend event, there will be two markets on both the last Saturday of 2022 (Dec 31) and the following first Sunday of 2023 (Jan 1).
Phuket Music Scene: Jazz and Blues festival back with a buzz
Phuket Music Scene: Jazz & Blues festival back with a buzz
Sunday 11 December 2022, 11:00AM
Phuket’s annual International Jazz festival used to take place every April outside Music Matters Jazz Bar in Chana Charoen Rd in Phuket Town until COVID struck. Started in 2012 by Filipino Jazz pianist Jeffery Sevilla, we saw Jazz musicians jetted in from the Philippines, Indonesia and even the far-off UK. Over a thousand Jazz lovers visited the festival in 2018 before it tragically had to stop as a result of the pandemic.
Bridging the comedy divide
Bridging the comedy divide
Sunday 2 October 2022, 11:00AM
Western comedians today just love identity politics, their jokes reflecting what they identify as – black, gay, transexual, feminist and so on. They also seem almost invariably left wing politically, with Boris Johnson, Tony Abbott and Donald Trump preferred targets. 
British Producer on song for Thailand
British Producer on song for Thailand
Thursday 1 September 2022, 09:24AM
Currently finishing his second album of  “The Isan Project” Songwriter and producer Will Robinson has turned to promote some of the stunning locations to visit in Thailand with his music and video. 
Nong Fiat: The Phuket voice being heard around the world
Nong Fiat: The Phuket voice being heard around the world
Sunday 28 August 2022, 02:00PM
At just 13 years old, Prapapon ‘Nong Fiat’ Sreemoung is already becoming a singing sensation, impressing Thais and tourists alike on Bangla Rd in Patong and at the Lard Yai Walking Street in Phuket Town on Sundays.
It’s time to laugh again!
It’s time to laugh again!
Sunday 21 August 2022, 01:00PM
Taipan has been a popular Patong nightclub now for over 23 years. Its events manager, Mark Cameron, kindly invited me to what was to be the first comedy show there for three years because of the COVID pandemic. 
Phuket Music Scene: Rocking in Phuket, Thai style
Phuket Music Scene: Rocking in Phuket, Thai style
Sunday 10 July 2022, 01:57PM
I’m sometimes asked about the best places to go to listen to Thai music, to which I reply, “What kind of Thai music?” For, as in Western music, there is a variety of genres including pop, country, protest, rock, Isan and Northern music.
Phuket Music Scene: The Ozone Band – a real breath of fresh air
Phuket Music Scene: The Ozone Band – a real breath of fresh air
Saturday 14 May 2022, 11:00AM
Once when teaching English, I had to explain to a class what child “prodigies” were. I said, “They’re kids who do something a whole lot better than most adults.” And if you want to see some playing classic rock at local markets, you need look no further than Phuket’s OZONE Band, whose average age is just 10. They’ve already won the Gold Medal and 2nd Prize of the under-15s 2021 Valaya Alongkorn Music Competition.
Phuket Music Scene: Eurasia PK ‒ Staying alive in Phuket
Phuket Music Scene: Eurasia PK ‒ Staying alive in Phuket
Sunday 10 April 2022, 11:00AM
Once upon a time there was a very popular live music venue in Phuket Town called Timber Hut. I enjoyed many happy evenings there soon after I arrived in Phuket over 10 years ago. I love to hear live music and the Timber Hut band was absolutely outstanding, reputed to be the best on the island. 
Phuket Music Scene: Hitting the right note
Phuket Music Scene: Hitting the right note
Saturday 19 March 2022, 11:00AM
It is now a year since I first had an article published in The Phuket News about live music venues in Phuket Town. Such venues had been shut for over six months because of COVID and my musician friends had suffered very badly during that time. Some had to sell instruments to buy food, others left Phuket to return home, a few waited patiently for better times. I knew too that live music venue owners were very upset about having to fire Thai staff and reduce pay for any they kept on. We should not forget it has been a terrible time for them and their staff too.
Phuket Music Scene: Rocking around the island
Phuket Music Scene: Rocking around the island
Saturday 26 February 2022, 02:00PM
I’ve had a busy few months as I’ve tried to get around as many live music venues as possible post-lockdown, not always easy as my wife and designated driver doesn’t like Classic Rock or Blues music as much as I do.
Chasing a dream
Chasing a dream
Sunday 6 February 2022, 11:00AM
After outperforming thousands of other contenders, Phuket teenager Tangton “TT” Prattranasanti last month made it to the final 18 of the LAZiCON (“Lazada Icon”) national talent quest to identify five young men to launch Thailand’s latest “boy band”. Here, TT, just 18 years old, talks with The Phuket News about what it took to make it through such a contest, and what his plans are for chasing his dream of being a star.
Phuket Music Scene: Time to get Moody
Phuket Music Scene: Time to get Moody
Sunday 16 January 2022, 11:00AM
Moody Paul is well known in Phuket as a gifted Burmese Blues and Rock guitarist and singer, particularly in Patong where he played in the Moody Café for many years before COVID. However, Moody had to return to his home when the pandemic started. Happily, he has now returned and is playing here again, all made possible financially by an online crowd-funding appeal run by his fans. Andy Tong Dee met him to ask him about his life and about why he seems so particularly fond of playing the Blues.
Phuket Music Scene: Having fun for a good cause
Phuket Music Scene: Having fun for a good cause
Saturday 18 December 2021, 11:00AM
Phuket’s got talent! A Night at the Popra, held at Underwood Art Factory’s new Junkyard Theatre on Dec 4 was the third of a series of charity shows run by Gary Crause of Legend Music and the Phuket Academy of Performing Arts. This time the show was centered around music from films, covering 36 songs from 34 popular movies. 
Phuket Music Scene: Homecoming at Hard Rock
Phuket Music Scene: Homecoming at Hard Rock
Saturday 27 November 2021, 01:30PM
If you have never heard of the Hard Rock CafĂ©, then you must be an alien visitor from another planet who needs to get out more, for there are nearly 200 of its establishments now around the world. Hard Rock Phuket opened on November 29, 2009, 12 years ago now, but the first Hard Rock started up in London in 1971. I can still remember my excitement when I first went there in 1979 just after I left university. So I was delighted to be invited to Hard Rock’s official reopening ceremony in Patong on November 1, arguably the jewel in the crown of Phuket’s live music scene.
Phuket Music Scene: Getting down in Phuket Town
Phuket Music Scene: Getting down in Phuket Town
Saturday 30 October 2021, 11:00AM
The live music scene on Phuket was dealt a severe blow by COVID, but happily not a mortal one. We are now starting to see green shoots of recovery, particularly in Phuket Old Town.
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