King Pichet will rule the charts

It was certainly a delight having singer Pichet “King” Buakhum, the second runner-up on television’s “The Voice”, visit Soopsip the other day to promote his upcoming concert. “The Fantastic 3” on July 13 reunites him with his coach from the show, Apiwat “Stamp” Euathavornsuk, and Pobthorn “Tu” Soonthornyarnkij, who trains the young wannabes on “The Voice Kids”.
The promotional visit was a bit of overkill, though, since the concert organised by FM One 103.5 was already sold out, and King wasn’t sure they’d add a second show.
The alternative for fans who missed out might have been to catch him live at the Saxophone pub any Monday, but he hasn’t performed there in more than a month because he’s preparing an album under contract to Universal Music.
By way of consolation, King’s debut single will be released at the end of this month. After that comes his first album, “King Pichet”, the first by a Thai on Universal Music (Thailand), which normally distributes foreign records.
“It’ll be pop rock,” he said. “I’m so happy I can do what I’ve always dreamed of doing,” by which he specifically means helping to produce as well as singing. He also got the nod to compose four of the tracks.

Straight up
Atichart “Aum” Chumnanon should by now be used to speculation that he’s gay, but it keeps reappearing even after his years of dating fellow actor Myria “Nat” Bennetti. There was a recent gossip magazine’s go-for-the-jugular headline “Red-lip actor buys sex from men”. This came out (so to speak) a while back, but then someone said Aum was planning to sue the publisher for libel. He denied that too at the Golden TV Awards.
“I don’t take it seriously,” he said. “I believe that if a person is malicious, they’ll suffer bad karma. They didn’t use my name, so it could be just about anybody.”
Besides, he said, who’d be crazy enough to do anything risqu