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When opportunity knocked, He answered

27/05/2012 : Gary Nock came from humble beginnings in the West Midlands, north of London. He taught himself to play from songbooks at the age of 17 and started picking up gigs in pubs in Devon, before pouring his heart out into his own acoustic offerings, some of which have been featured on TV commercials for brands such as Mars and Arla Ko milk. Having just released his debut album, The Life We Learned to Live, Nock is now gearing up to treat Thai fans to his "confessional, acoustic alt-folk" on Friday at the Hardrock Cafe in Siam Square.
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27/05/2012 : Songstress Yuna proves she's more than ready for the mainstream with her first album on a major label showing a professional polish that belies her age

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Thai artists unite
09/05/2012 : Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre at CentralWorld is staging "Affection", _ an art exhibition showing paintings by three Thai painters _ Sompong Panawannakul, Udom Innupat and Sanit Suvanavat.
Jazz legend returns
09/05/2012 : The legendary sax man, Ernie Watts, is coming back to show off his prodigious talents at The Living Room of Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit for four mesmerising evenings from May 22-25 at 9:30pm.
THEATREREVIEW
Wide of the mark
09/05/2012 : Thai audiences have always responded to bonkers Japanese theatre artists with open arms, even audiences who are not regular theatre-goers. When Wangnin Bunmei first visited the Bangkok Fringe Festival a few years ago, the viewers at Patravadi Theatre adored their exuberant and noisy work. Their second trip to the country landed them in a Ratchaburi market, where the crowd, comprising of Bangkokians, the locals, and foreigners, went mad for their exuberance that seemed to echo the Thai-market atmosphere.
Remembering the Manifesto
09/05/2012 : 'The old film is dead. We believe in the new one."
Patterns that Bind
08/05/2012 : Thavibu Gallery presents "Patterns", an installation of works on paper by the Italian-American artist Claudia Cannizzaro.
Professional concert
08/05/2012 : All music lovers shouldn't miss a professional concert this evening. Presented by The Professional by Kru Rodj team, "The Pro Showtime" concert will take place at CenterPoint Playhouse on the 7th floor of CentralWorld at 6pm. Performing on stage will be Kru Rodj's students and 14 professional trainers.
A romantic jazz night
08/05/2012 : Hitman Jazz presents "Romantic Jazz Night With Simone Kopmajer", which will see the return of one of the world's finest jazz vocalists at the Grand Ballroom of Millennium Hilton Hotel on May 27 at 8pm.
CLASSICAL
Ligeti revisited
08/05/2012 : Gyorgy Ligeti was displeased when Stanley Kubrick used some of his music on the soundtrack of his 1967 sci-fi classic, 2001, A Space Odyssey. The movie and the soundtrack album that was issued at the time of the film's release, which contained excerpts from pieces by Ligeti, were both big hits and Ligeti achieved a popularity and, most likely, a bank-account boost of the kind few avant-garde composers can dream of. But on the other hand it is true that, whatever the composer's actual intentions may have been, no one who has seen the film will be able to hear Ligeti's Atmospheres without thinking of the film's hallucinatory imagining of the surface of Jupiter, or his Lux Aeterna without memories surfacing of Kubrick's lunar shuttle skimming over craters and peaks.
Hero worship and the big bang
08/05/2012 : A medley of superheroes (or is it a bouillabaisse?) _ and their combined force plus save-the-world frenzy have proved unstoppable. The Avengers, the new film featuring the greatest hits of Marvel Comics characters, stormed into Thai cinemas and raked in a whopping 100 million baht in just three days. On the day of its release (May 1), the film hammered home 34.1 million baht, breaking the record for the highest first-day gross ever.
Come to Bangkok and show me What you see
22/04/2012 : An exhibition at Le Meridien, Bangkok, titled ''A New Perspective on Photography: A Look through Bangkok'', is the result of a three-day workshop with renowned lensman Ralph Gibson and nine photographers from Thailand, Cambodia, India, China and Hong Kong.