The Month That Was
Fifty six shows, sixteen venues, nineteen weekly residencies, and a Halloween night that took over four rooms at once.
Eight Songs That Didn't Exist in July
Summer Band Camp ended on 12 September at Roots Bar, with four new bands playing eight original songs, every one of them in front of a crowd for the first time.
It started as something not too serious: a fun way to celebrate the end of summer and play something a bit different. Nobody chose who they played with. The bands were drawn at a meet your band night at Roots Bar on 31 July, and from there each one had to find a sound, write two songs and learn to play them together. Roots Bar held the whole thing, the practice sessions as well as the show.
Mosquito opened as a two piece, acoustic, with Quân and Dũng. Black Garlic brought rap and soul with Minh, Ly, Devon and Hicham. Chasing Rabbits played indie rock with Dũng, Rozz, Rachael and Devon, and Border Run closed the night with Jaretta, Dũng, Hicham and Andrew.
In October it began again. Vol. 2 drew its line ups at Roots Bar on Sunday 4 October, open to everyone, no experience needed, and more than twice as many musicians put their names down.
Vũ Đinh Trọng Thắng
" Hội An is a port for artists. People visit and show me their music, and I am blown away.
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Secret Gallery
Secret Gallery sits among the rice fields on the edge of Hội An, an intimate contemporary art space built from nothing on a piece of land its founders fell for. They could have put up another guesthouse. Instead they made a room for art. Their walls were on this edition's pages.
Art · Secret Gallery. A new visual artist features each edition.
Ashtray Heart
Namduro's Clubhouse · An Bàng
Ashtray Heart played their last gig of the year. Phat Pats on the grill and Mixtape pouring craft beer from 5pm, band on at 7.
Mùa Thu
Hoa Lá (Chăm Chỉ) · Cửa Đại
An afternoon on the Hoa Lá riverside for the autumn season, with live music, a market, an art workshop and food. Thắng, Tom Waits Hội An Cover Band, La Lengua and Manuel Orkestar played. Music from 6pm.
Band Camp Vol. 2: Meet Your Band
Roots Bar · An Bàng
Musicians dropped in between 4 and 6pm, met the others and were put into a band. Free, all ages, no experience needed. Nine bands came out of it.
Caribbean Party
Halcyon Beach Club · An Bàng
Caribbean and Indian Ocean music from Manu Orkestar, with Caribbean food and Sampan cocktails.
Voodoo Rice Fields Ritual
Làng Củi Lũ (Driftwood Village) · Hội An Tây
Rumor and French Connection presented a Halloween night in the rice fields: a drag show, a costume party and a live DJ set, from 5pm.
Halloween at OTA
OTA Clubhouse · Old Town
All day there was free transport, a flea market, face painting, tarot reading, workshops, spooky snacks and animated horror films. The Living Colors drag show at 8pm, then Rave of the Dead by CÔMA.
Halloween Bar Crawl
Halcyon Beach Club · An Bàng
Seven bars, seven shots, starting at The Happy Buffalo at 2:30pm and ending at After Eight, with a costume competition, prizes and face painting at the start.
The deals you missed
October's deals are gone. That is the point: they change every month.
Free Drink With Any Food
Roving Chillhouse · An Mỹ
ExpiredThis month's deals are live.
One email and every deal is yours. Redeem at the venue.
October, Post by Post
The month as it happened, on @lostandfoundmusichoian
That was October.
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