webfact Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Indie Music Fest Ordered to Seek Junta OKBy Lisnaree VichitsorasatraStaff ReporterListening to music at Stone Free III in January 2013 in Kanchanaburi province. Photo: Courtesy Stone Free FestivalBANGKOK — The fourth outing of an indie music festival popular with Bangkok music lovers is up in the air after authorities intervened at the last minute to demand organizers seek permission from the ruling junta, an organizer said today.Stone Free, a festival celebrating new music from post-rock to experimental, is in jeopardy of being canceled for a second year after local police in Saraburi province, where the festival was to happen this weekend, said concerns about violence prompted them to change their minds and insist organizers seek formal approval from the junta according to festival organizer Tokin Teekanun.“The police perceived the concert in a negative light, thinking the event could lead to killings,” said Tokin, adding that police had informed local officials to put a stop to the concert.Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1449476348 -- Khaosod English 2015-12-07 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboon Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) 'Damn those whippersnappers and their new-fangled pop music stereo casettes. When I was their age...' Edited December 7, 2015 by baboon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM07 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Back to blaming rock- music! What next? Long hair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MESmith Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Soon only traditional Thai music & dancing will be permitted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyhangmon Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 >...concerns about violence ... thinking the event could lead to killings ...< What the faq?! Too much weed so they rip each other to pieces? Reefer madness - again? Still?? Nutters! Together with that >Rajabhakti Park closed for 'maintainance'< it certainly starts to top Kafka around here, Orwell would be proud of them too ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) "local police in Saraburi province, where the festival was to happen this weekend, said concerns about violence prompted them to change their minds and insist organisers seek formal approval from the junta" The local police causing a fuss that the govt has to sort out. Creating a problem that wasn't there to begin with. Hmm, too lazy to ensure no trouble happens and want someone else to blame if it all goes pear shaped? Or... Edited December 7, 2015 by Bluespunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhizBang Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Concerns about violence? Why? Better yet, why are the police NOT doing their job and policing the even in force, if indeed, they feel violence might erupt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Stone Free ? No Jagger and gang, no weed, no other drugs, just beer, babes and cool music? Dangerous people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribalfusion001 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Far too subversive is a indie music festival, it might attract "students" and some farang backpackers with no money, more then that, the people may actually have "fun"!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) delete Edited December 7, 2015 by NeverSure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacky54 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Soon only traditional Thai music & dancing will be permitted Hopefully, this 'indie' stuff is trash anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaalle Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Concerns about violence? Why? Better yet, why are the police NOT doing their job and policing the even in force, if indeed, they feel violence might erupt? Ask a thai person about what happens every time there is big concert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 So sad that local police can't or or won't handle things. No organization or business or country functions well without clear lines of authority. Constantly going to the military or the NCPO for decisions is, well it is a dictatorship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcusv Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 The mindset of these RTp are just mind boggling and I think there laziness is the end result here. Again another misjustice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinLOS Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Concerns about violence? Why? Better yet, why are the police NOT doing their job and policing the even in force, if indeed, they feel violence might erupt? Ask a thai person about what happens every time there is big concert. Whisky fueled morlam.. I agree.. But 'stoned free' ??? Much less chance.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZurf Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 It's probably the word "indie" that has the authorities worried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Why stop with a ban on music festivals where there might be injuries and deaths? Foreign tourists to Thailand in the last 2 years have suffered a rash of injuries, deaths and suicides. Shouldn't they also be banned for the potential of future violence? Domestic tourists would be okay as good Thai people never cause harm to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Loh Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 How correct Bono said that dictatorial regime hate music and humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 I think its the word "indie" that creates problems for the cops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuanku Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Any event with the word "free" in the title is bound to run foul of this government. Or are the afraid of songs about democracy? I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean I love the country but I can't stand the scene. And I'm neither left or right I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen. But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that Time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming [to the U.S.A.] Leonard Cohen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacky54 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Concerns about violence? Why? Better yet, why are the police NOT doing their job and policing the even in force, if indeed, they feel violence might erupt? Ask a thai person about what happens every time there is big concert. 99% of the time nothing at all, unless it's a Carabao concert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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