Right this second - from Brooklyn to Brisbane, Capetown to Kansas City - they’re making new noise. It’s the hip-hop-adelic-roots-reggae-rock-tronica-pop-jazz of the moment.

RedGorilla Music Fest, Austin, TX, March 11-16, 2008

The management of Noriega’s tell us they have developed plans to make improvements to the bar and the first floor facilities in particular, to increase revenue-earning floorspace.

Some visitors complaining the site is nothin’ but the blues but we are aware of this innocent bias. But we do need input from bands and others - venues included - who need the space to tell the world what’s on and to pull in the punters!

It would be too much to say all of Bangkok fell in love with the Blues Gangsta Glenn Patrik when he touched down a few weeks ago and stayed to deliver a truck load of genuine American blues to willin’ crowds. But shit, we miss the man and his rare authenticity.

Tell your songwriting friends and encourage them to take the stage and their first steps towards the big time!