Fat Tuesday 21 February
8PM
at WTF & Opposite

- First recorded cocktail – Sazerac orgingal style — with Hennessy VS cognac and Brandy Crusta.

- Launch of photographer Jason Lang’s exhibition of New Orleans Jazz Festival. 

- Live music — Jambalaya Jam and Gumbo Funk by EARLY EASTER— Joe Cummings (guitar), Scott Hess (bass), Prince Adi (drums)

Lets celebrate Fat Tuesday with a touch of the New Orleans carnival season at WTF. We’ll feature the world’s first recorded cocktail – Sazerac orgingal style — with Hennessy VS cognac and Vieux Carré and Brandy Crusta .

Launch of photographer Jason Lang’s exhibition of New Orleans Jazz Festival. Selected prints and a slide show will revel in the food, jazz, energy and characters of the Big Easy. The show is on view at Opposite from 21-28 February 2012 (except for Wed 22 Feb).

Plus live music — Jambalaya Jam and Gumbo Funk by EARLY EASTER— Joe Cummings (guitar), Scott Hess (bass), Prince Adi (drums)

About The Exhibition:::

Images from Orleans Parish & the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
By photographer Jason Michael Lang

21-28 Feb 2012 closed WEDs 

OPENING NIGHT Mardis Gras Tuesday 21 Feb — free Old Fashioned shots 8-9pm

Saturday 18 February,

9:00PM ‘til late — FREE!

Jerry Joseph is constantly touring. If it isn’t solo, it is with his rock band The Jackmormons or one of his side projects, including The Stockholm Syndrome. Regardless of the configuration, it is always about the songs.

On this solo tour Joseph will be highlighting songs from his recently released album, “Into The Lovely” and Joseph’s 2004 solo release “Cherry”. We can also expect to hear newly recorded songs from an upcoming release. The songs on “Cherry” are intimate masterpieces that reveal the sights and sounds of life lived on the road. Live, the songs are accompanied by stories of their origins.

Frank Ruffalo recently played at Opposite with his band El Dealbreakers.

 http://www.septembergurl.com/audio/JerryJoseph_Revolution.mp3

“Sounding occasionally like John Mellencamp’s older, wiser and psychologically mixed-up sibling, Joseph writes complex, image-laden songs and infuses them with plenty of attitude, soulfulness and swagger.” – Washington Post

Friday 9 December
7PM

Verbal Kint, the alter ego of Keyser Soze — is the acoustic duo from Reno, Nevada. Keyser Soze has an original ska/rocksteady sound with strong jazz and soul influences. Saxophonist/vocalist Jammal “JT” Tarkington and guitarist Ryan Hall, blend spontaneity and self-consciousness, darkness and humor in their intimate, convivial sets. The group’s addictive sound has placed them in the position to share the stage with some of the best drawing headliners, including The Wailers, Ozomatli, The English Beat, Toots & the Maytals, Steel Pulse, The Skatalites and Burning Spear.

They will return to Bangkok once again to perform at the flood relief benefit night at WTF. Free admission but we’ll pass around the donation box. All proceed are going to Mercy Center, the non-profit organization helping over 4,000 children and communities of the many slums of Bangkok, who are severely affected by the flood and urgently need help.lp.

Listen to Verbal Kint’s latest single!

More info on Mercy Centre or update on their flood situation.

Thursday 15 December,
10.30PM ‘til 1am — FREE!
 

The fabulous DJ Maft Sai of Zudrangma records will venture out of his normal music genre (our much loved, get out the dancing shoes, Paradise Bangkok and Isan Dancehall nights.). To cool down the troubled year 2011, Maft Sai presents Bangkok’s most experimental music night with his rare spiritual Jazz collection. Expect Archie Shipp, Yuses Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Dorothy Ashby, Norman Corner, Don Cherry, Steve Reid, Moondog, Philip Cohran, Gary Bartz and the likes. FREE ADMISSION: Seats are limited. First come, first serve

All December, 6-10pm 

WTF would like to invite you to join our special campaign for flood relief “Make-Someone-Else-Happy Hour”. During festive December (except for special events) Sunday – Thursday, 6-10pm if you order any beer, wine (by glass) or our special cocktail menu, your 2nd drinks will be just half-price and the money that you spend on the half-price second drink will be donated to flood victims. Without thinking, the amount spent on drinks on a night out could make a great difference to those severely affected by the flood!

Think, drink, donate!

Thursday 15 December
8PM

For this event, we’ll be across the soi from WTF at Opposite.

This happening’s theme is “The small, dark movie of your life.”

Each performer is asked to contribute a video (of his/her own creation, or something found/borrowed/stolen from YouTube or Vimeo)
that can be projected and accompany the reading/performance. Unexpected juxtapositions, surprising play between word, sound, and image is encouraged.

For this event, spaces will be given first to performers who engage the theme and take part in the film project. But if you have a dark, filmic piece that you feel wouldn’t work with actual film being projected, email me as well and I’ll keep you in the mix.

Interested? Contact us ASAP to reserve your place. All videos must be sent to us on later than December 8th to give us time to compile the materials.

If you know of other poetry/story-minded folks that might be interested in participating, please forward this email along to them.

Thursday 10 November
8PM

Originally scheduled for Opposite — the crowds and poets seem to be fleeing so come to an intimate night at WTF!

Bangkok Poetry’s November 10th “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine” happening: if you’d like to perform, email us ASAP: bangkokpoetry@gmail.com

Slots fill up quickly! Bangkok Poetry is a reading series devoted to the lyrical, the risky, the unexpected.

Happenings are every six weeks.

Saturday 15 October, 9PM

4PLAYERS will spin a superior selection of pressed wax Cosmic Diso, Deep House, Retro Funk, Afrobeat and live ocular masseuse FREELENSER will project and manipulate a live-mixed montage of colourful canopies, film edits and assorted eye-spinners.

A tutorial from 4PLAYERS: 
“In more detail:  ‘Retro funk’, just in the sense of playing some classic funk tracks from the 70s, plus a funk tracks from the early to mid 80s with a more electronic feel (think of Prince).  ‘Afrobeat’, meaning afro-funk mostly from the 70s or modern reworkings of that sound (think of Fela Kuti).  ‘Deep House’, is a basic generic description for slower paced groovy house that you don’t have to dance to (but can if you want) that is sometimes soulful, sometimes melodic and always beautiful.  ‘Cosmic Disco’ (confusingly also called ‘Afro’) is a micro-genre that developed in the early 80s and generally involved slow paced, deep disco-ish sounds often with spacey synthesizers and electronic percussion.  If you’re interested you can check it out on wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro/Cosmic_music.  Aside from that we will probably play some more ‘traditional’ but slow paced and deep disco, some Italo Disco tracks and maybe some Old School Hip-Hop.  Hope that description’s not overkill! ”

Friday 23 September, 9pm ‘til late

DJ Kandy aka Simon Montlake returns to WTF for the last time before he heads off to Beijing for a very serious business. He’ll be spinning his quirky selection of vinyl. It’ll be dance music, but you’ll be excused for not having to dance. Twitch your legs here, move your head there, but dance if you’d like to. Party starts at 9pm and it’s free!

Wednesday 28 September, 7pm 

A cured leg of Pata Negra (aka Jamon Iberico) – the luscious black-footed ham of Spain and Portugal, consumes only acorns and delivers a rich, intense and unique flavour, developed in its 36 months of curing. Once unwrapped and sliced, it must be hung in a cool, dry environment. WTF has a cured leg of Pata Negra.

We do not have a cool, dry environment. Solution: unwrap, slice, eat all.