The Hellhounnds are pleased to announce that they are now on hiatus and will resume playing the BLUES in a few months.

The Hellhounds will be back at Sharky Bar this Thursday night at 9 pm.

New songs and more of the same old shit from Phnom Penh’s mostly retreaded blues band.

After an unexpected hiatus (who ever heard of Khmer New Year?) the band will be back at Sharky Bar on Thursday April 29th at 9 pm.

Holy shit.

Phnom Penh cops have shut down live music at the Sharky Bar.

Tonight’s Hellhounds gig and this weekend’s Lost Highway gig have been summarily cancelled and as far as we know there will be no more live music at Sharky Bar for the forseeable future.

Ususally these sorts of “crackdowns” are cyclical and seasonal here in the land of “we don’t need no stinking justice“. They come, they flex their girlyman muscles and then leave again opening up the floodgates of sin and sophistication once again.

We also understand that Martini’s has been shut down. Ditto for the White Club. Ditto for a dozen or more “karaoke” clubs and seedy Cambodian brothels.

Damn those idiots. They’re blatantly and flagrantly taking all the fun out of dysfunction here in the Kingdom and that just sucks the big one and leaves nasty toothmarks on the thin outer layer. Damn.

So go now with the knowledge that The Hellhounds will be at home licking their wounds and pursuing the art of auto-erotica, possibly with both hands. Its that bad.

The economic dominoe effect is enormous. drummers and bass players needed the gig money just to afford to renew their visas. Crowds will be thinner and less spendy. Etc. and like that.

Oh woe is us. Misery and abject despondency run wild and menwhile the land-grabbing and military co-opting continue unabated. Is revolution in the air?

Number 9? I’ve got blisters on my fingers…