Impressions of Introduction Backstage, VII

Ofcourse after the classical Thai dance, which was also performed this night, and by doing so our small stage was officially open for use!
Here a short impression of some of the performers who got on our stage. Sadly some pictures taken were of bad quality and as such I decided to leave them out. As soon as I get the other pictures made on our Introduction, then I will place them on our weblog as well!





Right:Lipsing, or as we call in the west playback, is sometimes looked down on by westerners, BUT when one sees how intens our western songs are being performed here, one often forgets its lipsing and one can not help to forget the original at times as well. Here jeny giving an impresive performance, in daily life one can find him at Simon cabaret as well as sometimes in My Way.







Left: Was very happy that also my long time friend Rin took to the stage. In daily life he can be seen at My Way cabaret in Paradise soi... and sometimes at our place, but then he is 9 out of 10 not working but just relaxing, maybe eating some of that food we can arrange and talking with his friend(s) at Backstage ;-)








Below: Somchai did several songs, but the last performance of the night was" Dreams are fake", or "Dromen zijn bedrog", as the popular Dutch song by Marco Borsato is also called. If I am correct, this song is still the longest running nr 1 hit in the Dutch charts ever.

Impressions of Introduction Backstage, IV

Left: The 'German table', with facing in direction of camera, Andreas (from Loenoe Palace Hotel Patongl & Dempseys Bar) and old customer of J&B Bar, with left of him Jub, and Peter, a wonderfull upbeat guy







Right: Our neighbours from Super Boy enjoying themselfs with our karaoke installation. They, together with Wood & company have made us feel welcome in this little soi we now find ourselfs in





Left: Its getting late but the guests are enjoying themselfs. On the right of the pic, sitting with orange shirt is Danny, from Holland, who came back after he left earlier with his two dutch friends/owners from The Dutch Inn, having a wonderfull time. To the right, in white but sadly not that good visible, Phil and daughter Nathaly. Phil runs Adonis Guesthouse (in quite part of Paradise) and a true Brit who runs his hotel exempelary as I discovered personally last year when I stayed a couple of days at his place when I had some troubles at my house here ;-)

Shortly after the entertainment started, quickly followed by the first real heavy rainfall at night time in more then several weeks!

Impressions of introduction (party) Backstage on 1st of September, I

Left: Introduction Day for The Backstage started with a ritual of classical Thai dancing performed at The Backstage in the morning, after we visited Temple to pray and ask for good luck and fortune for The Backstage!





Right: The two dancers, who in daily life perform for Phuket Fantasea and are friends of Kik. These classical Thai costumes are very eleborate and it took them more then a good hour to get dressed!






Left: After a whole day of preparing, the finishing though is made with the buffet-table in the traditional Thai way. Our table had next to fruit, pork, beef and chicken satay, friend rice (one large portion we received as gift from our neighbour Wood), punch (with Sang Som, a Thai wiskey) and fried Thai chicken legs.
Our food had been prepared by long time friend Somchai, a co-performer from Kik at Simon Cabaret, also a friend of Rin and Gong, and an excellent cook (you should taste his spagethi bolognese, mmmm)