by Jim Algie | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog, Music
Whether on stage or on the street the late Joe Strummer took great pains to portray himself as an everyman of the people. In person he was very much the same. After producing the Pogues’ album Hells’ Ditch the former front-man of The Clash, Joe Strummer, hit the road...
by Jim Algie | Apr 15, 2018 | Blog, Features
To get a glimpse of Thailand’s dark side and its Third World injustice system, no daytrip is more illuminating than a Bangkok prison visit, writes Jim Algie. Opening the back door of a pink taxi, I told the driver in Thai that I wanted to go to Klong Prem Prison. I...
by Jim Algie | Apr 3, 2018 | Blog, Travel Tales
The Thai New Year, or Songkran, has become watered down in many urban centers, writes author and photographer Jim Algie, as you can see from all the malls where Buddha images are set up to be rinsed by patrons who go through the blessing motions with little heart and...
by Jim Algie | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog
Author and former punk rock musician Jim Algie will be spinning a tribute to the genre’s resilience and enduring influence at the WTF Bar and Gallery in Bangkok on Friday, March 30. Starting at 9pm, the DJ set will commence with the keystones of punk from 1976, like...
by Jim Algie | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog
With a world tour in progress, a new memoir in bookstores, and celebrity fans like Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson doing PR for him, Doug Stanhope is on a winning streak that will see him come to Bangkok for the first time ever to mix up a 50-proof highball of black...
by Jim Algie | Feb 24, 2018 | Blog, Music
February 19, 2018, Bangkok – Riffing on music history, literature and his own experiences as a musician, Jim Algie’s new book, On the Night Joey Ramone Died: Tales of Rock and Punk from Bangkok, New York, Cambodia and Norway (Magic Bullet Press, 2018), takes readers...
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