NightWalker's Picture Show - Pattaya International Music Festival 2010

Impressions

Pattaya International Music Festival 2010

Small boothes along Pattaya Beach Road, from Soi 4 up to Bali Hai Pier, sold everything, from food to clothes, sunglasses, watches and all kind of souvenirs.

Hand made from old wood and cans from Coke, Heineken and other well-known products. Perfect recycling.

'Sushi' made from chocolate, a popular licking for Thailand's sweetest ladies...

The professional sounds & lightshows with coyote dancers provided by the Thai DJ Community and 3rd Road's Zee Bar in front of the Nautical Inn Hotel and at Pattaya's Police Station attracted a lot of people.

The noisemakers in front of Mike Shopping Mall, Royal Garden Plaza and the Bali Hai Entertainement Complex missed the taste of the visitors with their disco-sounds.

Eating is a passion in Thailand and therefore a lot of boothes sold all kind of original Thai food.

For Farangs or 'advanced' Thais a bunch of (chicken-) kebab (in Thai: ChickenBab) stalls sold the popular food in a wide varity of different tastes.

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International Music Festival 2010

Since a few years the Pattaya Music Festival happens near the end of March. In 2010 the International Music Festival attracted about 500'000 people from March 19th to March 21st. The term International is mostly restricted to guests from other Asian countries. Most participating artists are associated with Grammy (also known as G-MM or G-MM-Grammy), Thailand's largest music producer.

Pattaya International Music Festival is an open event. You don't have to buy any ticket(s). All concerts are free. The event is supported by sponsors. Therefore visitors (and dealers) are arriving from all over Thailand. Almost all cheaper rooms, guesthouses and hotels in the city are fully booked during the festival. Many visitors are sleeping at their friends' rooms, in their cars or even on the beach. The event is a public festival, but not (yet) a public holiday.

Concerts usualy started at about 18:00 and ended after midnight.

Walking Street and Bali Hai were always crowded with people and as a surprise for many onlookers: Thailand's beautiful ladies prefered to walk with Thai men and not with Farangs. Therefore many Farangs decided to visit Pattaya as well as the festival with their wives from Russia and ignoring native woman completely.

But I was a happy man: Because of my age, and not despite of it, I got a lot of nice smiles from Thailand's most beautiful ladies. Thank you for the nights!

The SKA & Reggae stage near the entry to Walking Street attracted a lot of cheerful visitors with its mostly happy sounds.

The main stage at the Bali Hai Pier presented Thailand's most popular stars and was crowded every night. A few TV-Stations broadcasted the events live.

The fans of Pattaya United could buy shirts, caps and a lot of other useful (and useless) goods at Bali Hai.

During a festival like this, or any other occasion, it is an old Thai tradition to say thank you to all sponsors, supporters, assistants, contributors, employees, contractor, workers, longtime friends and colleagues. Mostly an never ending procedure. This festival wasn't an exception.

For next year we recommend to install a separate stage for all this thank-you-people where they can do their never ending speeches during all three festival days and check themself if Thai people really want to hear and/or attend that endless thank-you-gobbledygook.