Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Monday 25 February 2019

#Thailand - Music and sea breezes at the Krabi Naga Fest


The Krabi private and public sector in conjunction with the Tourism Authority of Thailand is holding the Krabi Naga Fest 2019 from March 1-3 on Khlong Muang Beach in Mueang District, Krabi.

Under the theme of ‘Breezing Beach & Music’, the event’s three-day programme offers festival goers a wide variety of activities to enjoy including performances by well-known pop-jazz musicians and singers, cultural shows, street shows and a local product fair. Fresh seafood and other local cuisine will be available throughout the event, produced by the area’s four- and five-star hotels and resorts.

The Krabi Naga Fest 2019 takes place from 17.00-24.00 hrs daily and entrance is free.
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Source - TheNation
 

Tuesday 21 August 2018

#Pattaya ‘sex orgy’ hotel named; party sponsored by #Singha


The hotel at the centre of claims it hosted a sex orgy has been named as the A-One The Royal Cruise in North Pattaya.

Earlier story from The Thaiger HERE.

On Monday morning, the resort’s police chief and local authority supremo were met by hotel executive Somchai Ratana-ophat, who admitted that the party had taken place at the hotel on Saturday between 3pm and 11pm. It had been organised by foreigners, and 1,000 participants paid between 550 and 1,100 baht a head. Thai female models were hired by the organizers.

Naris Niramaiwong, the district chief, said that the hotel had a valid licence, and that the police would handle the other matters. Pol Colonel Apichai Krobpetch admitted that the participants had all been wearing swimsuits, but the party still constituted an affront to public morals and was obscene. He promised a full investigation and possible action against the organisers, models, tourists, photographers and those who posted a video of the event.

 The “Kolour Beachside Party” was well advertised and was the second such event. The Thaiger notes that the poster advertising the event says ‘Singha Presents’ indicating the the Singha Corporation were one of the main sponsors. The Thaiger has a contact number for Singha Corporation when District Chief Naris needs to question the huge Thai food and beverage corporation.


 The We Love Pattaya news site on Facebook said the party had utilised state-of-the-art sound and light systems, had experienced deejays in attendance and featured a special stage in the centre of a pool.

Two beachfront pools were used for the party. A video of nearly one-minute duration was still being widely viewed and shared online, said We Love Pattaya. Naris warned people not to hold sex or drug parties in Pattaya.

Thai Visa notes that chief Naris is the man who walked in on an old British tourist in a short-time sex room on Valentine’s Day last year.


 A video published on YouTube exposes the full horrors of people at a pool party drinking, playing music and, even worse, enjoying themselves.

Two kilometres away is the family-themed Walking Street where young women wear skimpy outfits to lure men into consuming large quantities of alcohol and providing them with other wholesome family-related services.


https://12go.asia/?z=581915




 Source - The Thaiger

Friday 7 April 2017

Myanmar (Burma) Water festival to help boost tourism

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The traditional Myanmar Thingyan Water Festival this year will be something special, says U Myo Yi, chair of Myanmar Tourism Entrepreneurs Association (Mandalay Zone).
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“On display will be Myanmar’s traditional cultural dances, music and food,” he said.
Speaking on March 28, he added that this year, the water festival will be held, for the first time, in the southern part of Mandalay City’s palace moat.
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“We will make it a truly traditional affair with dance performances and musicians who will capture the heart and spirit of Myanmar culture,” he said.
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This year’s traditional Thingyan will be jointly organised with the cooperation of hotel and tourism entrepreneurs, who are members of Hotels and Tourism Entrepreneurs Association.
Also part of the organising team will be tourist guides and the restaurant association (Mandalay Zone) and will contain ethnic traditional pandals, as well as Sadudita (distribution of free food to anyone).
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U Min Naing, chair of Hotel Entrepreneurs Association (Mandalay Zone), added that there will be entertainment provided by pandals located from 67th Street to 69th Street at the southern part of the moat.
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He added that the free food distribution will be carried out throughout the four days of the festival.
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 “Everybody can take part in the water festivities at the pandals. But alcohol will be strictly banned. We will also provide bowls and water pipes for foreigners to splash water on those around them. We also put Thabyay (Eugenia) sprigs in the water bowls.” he said.
The reason of holding Myanmar traditional culture walking-style Thingyan festival is to improve and to develop the tourism industry and for the tourists to enjoy and see the festival, he said.
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U Min Naing said, “We are trying to promote tourism and culture through the traditional Thingyan festival. We will showcase Myanmar tradition in a systematic and organised manner for the world to see and understand.”
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There will also be a singing contest open to all participants with no age limits. And the winners will walk away with prize money from K1 million to K3 million, said U Myo Yi.
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“Everybody can compete. The people can get the forms at the Myanmar Tourism Association at 68th Street between 27th and 26th streets. Professional singers will not be allowed to take part, though. We welcome amateurs. And there will be 10 Thingyan songs that the participants have to sing and compete,” he said.
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Source - Myanmar Times
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Tuesday 14 March 2017

Pitbull plans to bring the party to Bangkok

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Cuban-American pop star and rapper Pitbull announced that his upcoming tour, The Climate Change Tour, will include a date in Bangkok. Tickets for the show, slated for May 25, will go on sale on March 18.
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 With a seemingly endless string of hits and collaborations under his belt, fans may know him best for songs like “Timber,” “Feel This Moment,” “International Love” and “I Know You Want Me.”
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 The show will be at Impact Exhibition Halls 3-4 in Muang Thong Thani. Standing tickets cost THB2,500 and THB3,500. They can be purchased here starting on Saturday. 
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Source - Coconuts
 

Friday 14 October 2016

All entertainment in Thailand suspended for 30-days

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Thailand shuts down
It has been announced there will be a public display of respect and mourning in Thailand for thirty-days.
There will be no entertainment programs on radio or television. No music, no comedy and no soap series. Every Thai channel will broadcast royal daily news continuously.
All entertainment events have been cancelled for thirty-days. There will be no concerts, live music, stage shows or competitions.
Many nightclubs and go go bars have already closed down and will remain closed as a mark of respect.
Some bars have been told to close for three-days, others have been shut down for seven days.
More information will be shared as it becomes available.
Report shared by BangkokJack News Team
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Friday 22 January 2016

Santana and Carabao to serenade Bangkok this February


Maria, mariaaaaaa. If you’re of a certain generation then we’re pretty sure this is your favorite Santana song. If “Black Magic Woman” is more your jam, then you probably don’t identify as a millennial or you just have great taste. In which case, let’s hang out.

Either way, get excited, because the grandmaster guitarist himself will be serenading Bangkokians on February 29, 2016. Carlos Santana will take to the stage at Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani and he’ll be joined by local rock legends Carabao.

Santana rose to fame in the 1960’s and 1970’s, when there were few Latino musicians in America’s burgeoning rock scene. He got his start all the way back at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. At the time, his band Santana was unknown to the massive crowds in New York, but after an eleven-minute instrumental rendition of “Soul Sacrifice" his guitar skills quickly became a thing of legend.

In more recent memory, Santana’s 2000 album “Supernatural” featured collaborations with artists like Rob Thomas, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Cee Lo Green. The album won 9 Grammy awards and “Maria, Maria” became a classic.

Santana made history in Thailand with sell-out shows dating back to 1994, 1996, 2003, 2011 and 2013. 2013 is also the year that Santana and Carabao jammed together on stage, much to the appreciation of Thai rock fans.

Carabao was started by Thai university students in the early 1980’s. The name means buffalo in Tagalog, perhaps an homage to the Philippines, where the band members met. The symbol of strength and perseverance also conotes the working class life, which is the theme of much of Carabao’s music.

 Both the themes and the sounds, a mix of Northeastern Thai folk with Latin beats, quickly resonated with all Thais, making Carabao the most popular and successful Thai band of all time.

Now you can catch these two legendary acts together at Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani on Februay 29, 2016, as part of the global Santana Luminosity Tour 2016.

Tickets prices range from 2,000-5,000 THB. Click on over to Thai Ticket Major to score your tickets or call 02-262-3838. Keep up with BEC Tero on their Facebook page.

Source: Coconuts

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Wednesday 23 December 2015

Let there be light

With a little help from the creators of the world-famous Amsterdam Light Festival, downtown Bangkok serves up a buffet of illuminations


Ratchaprasong, Bangkok's famous shopping strip, is well known for its annual festive lights that usually stretch from Siam Square up towards Chidlom.

This year the area is brighter than ever thanks to "Thailand Kingdom of Light II", an extravagant showcase of millions of lights plus world-class light art from the Amsterdam Light Festival.

The dazzling festival, which has as its theme "Thai's Enlightening Moments", is divided into five zones. The sacred Brahma shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection has become a "Lighting Pavilion" to welcome visitors who come to pay their respects to Brahma and pray at the shrine. The Ratchaprasong Skywalk has morphed into tunnels of light and dubbed "Skywalk - The Garden of Light" under the concept "Fah Ngam Thee Plai Roong" ("Beautiful Sky at the End of the Rainbow"). The area beneath the Skywalk zone is decorated with a dazzling mesh of lights with a giant digital clock on the façade of CentralWorld. Now showing Thai numerals, the timepiece will change to Roman numerals on New Year's Eve so everybody can count down together.

The last zone is the International Zone and showcases world-class light art from Amsterdam Light Festival as well as collaborative masterpieces created by world-renowned lighting designers and their Thai peers.


 "The light festival in Bangkok features works that have come about from the sharing of expertise between world-renowned lighting designer Rogier van der Heide, who's the artistic director of the Amsterdam Light Festival, and Thai lighting designers, educators, computer researchers and developers from ESIC LAB, the Edutainment & Socio-Interaction Computing Research Group," says Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau president Nopparat Maythaveekulchai.

"Together they have created masterpieces in the International Zone with the aiming of raising light festivals in Thailand to international standards."



 The International Zone exhibits eight artworks selected by van der Heide, who is also a professor at the Technical University of Graz in Austria.

"We have installed eight artworks: three of them are from the Amsterdam Festival of Light and five have been newly made in cooperation with students here in Bangkok," van der Heide tells Explore.

"These works are very international and they promote knowledge exchange and innovation because we work with students on sophisticated technology and computer programming. I think it is a great initiative. For the visitors, the event creates a wonderful line up of artwork that is interesting to see. It demonstrates light as a universal language that can be understood all over the world.

"Ratchaprasong is a very busy area so a lot of people can come and see these works. Our aim is make people smile when they see the lights. The artists would like to show how important friendship and laughter are. Instead of doing it in their own languages, they do it with lights, which is basically understood by everybody. Light is a very great way to bring people together and unite them around something positive," he continues.

"I help to choose the artworks that are relevant to the location. The artists have to radiate the positive message to the public and they have to be imaginative. One of the criteria is their artworks should be understandable to everyone. Some works like 'Floating Light' are quite abstract but people can interact with the art and use their own imagination while they make the light tube 'dance'. I like it because it helps you make a connection with the art."

Van der Heide adds that to him, light creations are both art and science. "Lighting is very artistic and there are lots of stories about light. We have those 50 origami elephants that people like. The elephant is the symbol of Thailand; it is ancient and traditional. What the students put in there is sophisticated technology. We use laser cutting and drawing with 3D software in the computer. We bring together two worlds that are totally different and make it easy to understand.

"The heart-shaped work '195 Bottles, 1 Message' by Dutch artists Saskia Hoogendoorn and Lieuwe Martijn is made of 195 bottles with LED lights representing 195 countries in the world and the one message is that there is only one religion that is really important to this world - love," Rogier says.

The famous light designer admits with a rueful grin that in sleepless areas like Ratchaprasong, installing light art is hard but adds that LED technology makes it possible.

"It is very true that you cannot make light if there is no darkness. That is the basic concept in architecture. But LED technology gives us greater flexibility in creating light sculptures even in places that are not so dark.

"In the past, lighting technology was quite expensive and very difficult to install. You needed electricians, high voltage power, and it would be very hot. Now with LED, everyone can make a light sculpture. It is easy, flexible, affordable and it uses low power like batteries. You can use your smartphone to control it. Just download the app and you can control your LED lights.

Light is everything to van der Heide who used to look after the lighting for ballets and operas.

"The more I worked with electrical light, the more I became interested in the real light like the light from the sun. I wanted to know how it worked, how it touches us, emotionally and physically. There are so many things in our body that are regulated by light, like our biorhythms and our sleep. I feel very thankful for every morning even though I know that tomorrow the sun will always come up.

"Light has a long history in all cultures. It is something that never gets boring. I teach it at the university and there is always something new. When you teach, the students will always come up with some new questions and I think it is very interesting."

"We started working on the International Zone in September and in only two months we have these amazing artworks. It would be great to start working on the project earlier next year to engage the artists, the engineers and technicians so we can work together and exchange our knowledge and make better artworks. We would be a platform for these talents. Next year we will attract more artists and work with more universities and that will draw more partners," Rogier concludes.

Source: The Nation

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Monday 16 November 2015

World’s top DJs coming to Bangkok


EDM addicts, we know you already picked up your VIP tickets to Smirnoff Midnight 100 presents Waterzonic. Awesome, see you there. For the rest, it’s time to hurry.


The wild, massive, soaking wet music festival Smirnoff Midnight 100 presents Waterzonic is happening on November 28, 2015 at SCG Stadium in Muang Thong Thani.

But this innovative party is not your usual festival. It’s set to eclipse every music fest in Thailand, and the world, with the #paihaisood attitude of Smirnoff. Paihaisood = to the extreme. Which pretty much sums up this festival.

Headlining DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike were just named the planet’s #1 DJ act by DJ Mag - the first duo to snag the honor ever. They’ve been rocking Belgium’s record breaking music festival Tomorrowland for years, entertaining crowds and pushing the boundaries of EDM.

They will be accompanied by globally renowned EDM artists W&W, Dannic and Goldfish & Blink as well as DJ Spacemonkey from Smirnoff Thailand’s Sound Collective.



There's even more to the #paihaisood attitude than pounding beats to keep you dancing all night, an amazing water show to cool you off and a trippy light and laser show to keep you mesmerized. There will be tons of cool party props, a convenient wifi zone to share pics, and a party bus so you can get the festival started early and dance all the way to the event.

To be a true EDM-er, gather your friends and rock your best water friendly club gear. We’d suggest some mirror shades, funky hair color and colorful face paint.
Not so experienced at painting emojis on your cheeks? Smirnoff has you covered with activities like body paint, plus great photo ops to show off your EDM style.

Pre-Sale tickets are still available (for now) at 2,500 THB. Regular tickets are 2,800 THB and 3,800 THB for the VIP experience. Last we checked, there were only 5% of tickets left at Pre-Sale price. So hurry and get your tickets now at www.waterzonic.com.

Don’t forget to like and follow Smirnoff Thailand on Facebook for event updates and a chance to win free tickets. ​Show off your EDM style and post a pic of how you're preparing for Waterzonic on the Smirnoff Thailand Facebook page and you could win a special meet and greet with the DJ masters Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike themselves.


Source: Coconuts

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Tuesday 27 October 2015

When you like manipulation, you must look at this Thai channel.


First of all, I not want to share the link. (only the channel)
The whole program is corrupt and manipulated.

I think the first contest was real. With a beautiful girl and a excellent voice.
A real winner (500.000THB)

But now with the second contest, there come a fixed Barbie girl with all silicons in and around hear face.
Really disgusting.

The competitors are before selected (manipulated) and difficult to beat the main (second) girl.

When this is TV, please stop, and take a better job.

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