Bodyslam an apt description for concert tour's cancellation

Arguably Thailand’s most popular rock band has put on its major-production in nine provinces, but the one today in Korat is the last of them. 

Pa Ted called it off on the social media, declaring with regret that “Dharmajati” is terminated. “We had a dream to make it happen, but we’ve decided to end our tour,” he said, without explaining why. “We’d like to apologise for all inconvenience. We might not have made the best decisions and we accept our mistakes.”

The tour began early last month and was to have continued on into February, with 21 provinces still on the itinerary.

Earlier Pa Ted had been delighted to announce a massive reduction in ticket prices, from Bt1,500 to just Bt399, thanks to a windfall from the sponsors. Of course everyone who’d already paid top price for a pass was ticked off, and now with the tour aborted there’s speculation that the price slash was connected. Pa Ted insists that one has nothing to do with the other, though. 

So, if you’re holding a ticket, you can get reimbursed at any ThaiTicketMajor booth right through January, or call (02) 669 8846 for assistance. 

And, if you still want to see Bodyslam, they’re among the headliners at Pa Ted’s Big Mountain Music Festival on December 6 and 7. That’s at the Bonanza retreat in Khao Yai.

 

Mind your language

You know when you want to grab a coffee in Siam Square and tutors coaching their students are taking up all the seats? Like, for hours? Well, you’d complain, of course, but filmmaker Jira “Geng” Maligool didn’t – he created a movie about it. 

It’s the latest comedy from studio GTH, “I fine..thank you..love you”, which premieres on December 10.

Geng managed to find a seat at a coffeeshop and was observing a woman tutor trying to teach English to a man in a common work uniform. “Had I not known they were studying I would have thought they were having a romantic moment,” Geng says. He was overhearing questions like “What are you doing this weekend?” and “How old are you?” But he soon realised what was happening, because the man’s English was really poor. “He had his Thai and English all mixed up – it was like listening to comedians putting on a show!”

That’s when the idea for a movie popped into Geng’s head. He reached for his phone and called his team, and later they worked up a script for Mez Tarathorn, who directed “ATM Er Rak Err”.

Mez took it to GTH president Visute Poolvoralak, who laughed out loud, especially at the part where a Thai whose English is so poor that he ends up running away from a farang. 

It’s Sunny who gets runny. Sunny Suwanmethanon plays a gruff mechanic tackling English with the help of Preechaya “Ice” Pongthananikorn, one of the stars of “ATM” – who happens to be fluent in the language. 

Geng is just hoping that everyone who sees the film thinks it’s as entertaining as the GTH team does!