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 | 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...
by Jim Algie | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Music
In the aftermath of a black metal murder in the local music scene, Jim Algie looks back at the merger of Satanism and rock that ended up on a collision course in the Thai capital. Ever since rock ‘n’ roll was dubbed the “devil’s music” by some American puritan, and...
by Jim Algie | Jul 26, 2017 | Blog, Music
Before I was born my mom used to go and see Leonard Cohen do poetry readings in Montreal in the late 1950s. So I grew up with his novels and poetry collections on our bookshelves. She did not listen to his music though, so that epiphany had to wait until 1985 when I’d...
by Jim Algie | May 19, 2017 | Blog, Music
For a guy who banged out his riffs, odes and elegies on a typewriter instead of a musical instrument, Hunter S Thompson composed one of the most accurate descriptions of the music industry I’ve ever heard, calling it “a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic...
by Jim Algie | May 13, 2017 | Blog, Music
As a photographer Martyn Goodacre is mostly remembered for his famous black and white shot of Kurt Cobain, but he framed many more stars of rock, cinema and literature before giving up the high life to semi-retire in Thailand. The music business is a Roman circus of...
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