PM proposes holding world music festival to woo tourists

[findlay13]

He could do a few numbers himself that'd bring the punters in????

[dcnx]

Yea, that will woo them in. Because huge epic music festivals are not held elsewhere in the world where they can have more fun, smoke legal weed in many places, and not have to worry about Thainess and Somchai.
 

Perhaps Thailand can be the hub of music festivals.

[kickstart]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

DPM Prawit is rehearsing "Watching the Detectives"

Or Elvis Costello's  ,Olivers  Prayat's Army .

[elliss]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Loong Too himself will do an Elvis cover "Return to Sender"

     Followed by an Elvis classic ,  How great I  am ..

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2019 by elliss

[elliss]

 

    Farangs get back , to where you once came from ...

 

 

 

 

 

[Toadie]

They actually have an international jazz festival in Hua Hin. Right on the beach. Very well organised.

 

Could easily do similar events. Don't have to think massive concerts. 

 

Please disregard this however...

[kingofthemountain]

38 minutes ago, Toadie said:

They actually have an international jazz festival in Hua Hin. Right on the beach. Very well organised.

 

Could easily do similar events. Don't have to think massive concerts. 

 

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The problem is TAT wants massive numbers

then a music festival, a pig fair, or a circus tour they are convinced

if they paste the magic word ''international'' in the event name

they should attract half of the world

[Orton Rd]

To be fair Thais are excellent at putting on a concert, but to attract a few thousand tourists, if that, it's hardly going to make a difference to tourist numbers. They would have to charge the tourists several times the ticket price for Thais of course. They would be better off promoting the 'nightlife', buy one get one free maybe, or 1000k towards the barfines?

[DoctorG]

The music buffs are out in force today. Well done everyone ????

Personally I was thinking that a version of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo would be more appropriate. ????  

[PremiumLane]

Will it get shut down at 12 and free pee testing with every ticket? 

[Jessi]

Forget the Music Prayut just fix the road carnage in this country.

Its a disgrace!!!!!????

[BestB]

Great idea, but has the great PM considered to first ask the artists if they are willing to come? kind of need internatioanal stars to attend to make it world music festival.

 

Also just out of curiosity, why Thailand needs to host such event to get tourists? Are tourist number down? only ask because according to TAT tourist numbers are booming,an increase on last year by as much as 10%

 

 

Edited November 15, 2019 by BestB

[maechanman]

12 hours ago, fishtank said:

Pink Floyd singing "Money" would go down well with most Thais.

You definitely won't be hearing ''Money For Nothing''.

[canuckamuck]

A concert for westerners, Chinese, or Indians?

There are certainly some different taste among these groups,

And if it were to be Thai music no tourists would come at all. Not saying they don't have their stars, but they don't have much appeal outside the borders.

 

[spidermike007]

I propose the PM admit his gross incompetency, resign, and remove the army from politics. That might woo back tourists! Nobody likes his army. Most Thais despise the army. If they did not before, after 5.5 years of his nonsense, they sure do now.

[WeekendRaider]

how about inviting American professional baseball teams to practice in Thailand and do exposition games!  we could give tourists and USA expats all over Asia another reason to visit Thailand!  and basketball games!  etc.

for every one kilometer "flown" by one person in a commercial jet we can add about 300 grams of carbon GHG directly into the atmosphere that persist in it's climate effects for almost 100 years and that we then measure in parts per million as a gas molecule in that atmosphere.  that took countless millions of years to sequester from the atmosphere, but "man" is burning in a few decades. 

excellent!  even more tourism.  more airplanes.  pulling a bandage off slowly hurts, let's rip it off with the scab.  while we talk about "lost dreams"... and that someday in 2100 something some ice will begin melting.  but not in 2015-2016, an El Nino that rivaled all prior positive ENSO's, that Freund in May 2019 says has doubled in recent decades and that Xu et. al also confirmed but specifically for the Chao Phraya river basin......  duh. 

Edited November 15, 2019 by WeekendRaider

[ChakaKhan]

Thai a yellow ribbon round the old monk tree...Tony Orlando n Dawn

[Beggar]

I have so much noisy bar music here in Pattaya every night that I am grateful for every quiet minute... Please don't bring this festival to Pattaya. 

[Katipo]

Chances of the Gov organising a truly international music festival with an A list headliner = 0.

It is possible that an a watered down version could eventuate, but even that I doubt.

[ThomasThBKK]

Who the F*** wants to go to a festival organized by military and police dudes? That's like absolute horror - people go to festivals to escape some days from our surveilance states.

 

Police tried to pull some <deleted> in germany last year too with the fusion festival: https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/05/20/german-territory-police-authorities-are-attacking-the-fusionfestival/

 

TL,DR: they tried to install police guys on the festival and we (the germans) would have cancled it if we lost in court, in the end we won the court case and the police was forbidden to show up on the festival area. No one needs police thugs on a festival, people can't feel free if uniformed dudes are running around there...

It's a festival with 70 000 - 100 000 visitors, so quite massive - and no police was ever needed on there, nor do they have security, people aren't as retarded as one might think if everything is organized properly.

 

 

 

 

[khunpa]

With all those invisible Indians and Russians tourists and now also a huge music festival, I am sure the numbers will hit 100 million next year.

 

It will so be so that every time you see a Thai, you will also see two invisible tourists.

Edited November 15, 2019 by khunpa

[manicmike68]

 A good jazz festival might work well here. I know the Java jazz festival in Indonesia is a big hit all over the world but the huahin jazz festival sucks.

[Cabradelmar]

Sounds like an idea my fraternity brothers once had to pay for our spring break ???? ... 

[lexilis]

The Malaysian Tourist Board has organized the very successful Rainforest Music Festival, held in East Malaysia near Kuching, every year since 1998. It a 3-day long event with multiple stages it is a fantastic experience. It features traditional and contemporary "world music" but some jazz and bands from all over the world play. It attracts about 25,000 people (almost all visiting foreigners). I went about 5 years ago with some friends and had a great time. The music was fantastic with groups from Asia, Africa, and the West. The 2020 event begins Friday July 10. Highly recommended. Check it out at https://rwmf.net/

[Mavideol]

17 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Perhaps he could write a song for the Rolling Stones!

similar to the "I can't get NO satisfaction" 555

[Mavideol]

He/they can try anything they want but nothing will work until their attitude changes and until the military junta holds power.... it takes a life time to build a good reputation and only takes a couple of military junta (poor) decisions to damage such reputation.... worse yet to come

[Creasy]

Maybe he's talking about bringing performers from countries of the same ilk as Thailand.

 

Cambodia, Nth Korea, China etc etc  ??????

 

Sort of a Live Aid concert for performers from military run countries

Edited November 15, 2019 by Creasy

[neeray]

"Who Let the Dogs Out" .... Baha Men.

 

or

 

"Eave of Destruction" .... Barry McGuire,

[Mavideol]

10 minutes ago, Creasy said:

Maybe he's talking about bringing performers from countries of the same ilk as Thailand.

 

Cambodia, Nth Korea, China etc etc  ??????

 

Sort of a Live Aid concert for performers from military run countries

agree with you on the principle of live aid performance but not from military run countries, would change that to DICTATORSHIP runed countries

[BLACKJACK2]

Great idea, I don't think it would help tourism as it would still mainly be Thais but I love a good festival. I find it weird the majority of comments here about them not being able to organise it or any major bands coming, the MotoGP has been a huge success and I've seen Foo Fighters and Maroon 5 in Bangkok both could headline any festival in the world.