The quality of the entertainment business may have gone up a bit in terms of production values. The thing is people have to put more effort into things now, whereas decades ago people wouldn’t have known this much.
In regards to the radio, it’s got a whole lot worse than before. There used to be a number of OK foreign music stations here. There’s nothing to listen to now. For the moment, there is no real foreign music station to listen to.
Some of the boy bands were quite OK when I was 20, but not so much now. And they do play an awful lot of that. A lot of music I think lately is quite soft. When I’m in the car especially, I don’t want something to put me to sleep. I want something to wake me up.
I think hip-hop is OK. I have a CD in my car, but it’s really more for other people than myself. Now everyone seems into hip-hop. So many people dress like they’re straight out of the hood. It’s cute.
Doing broadcasting has developed my character as a person. Having to be outgoing and entertaining forces me to bring myself out. If I didn’t do broadcasting, I would sound quite mundane.
My career went on two different paths concurrently while I was doing DJing and entertaining. I also tried to develop the TV presenting thing. I started doing a purely travel show, which had an element of news in it. This later developed into becoming a news anchor.
I’m trying to infuse news with my entertaining side. I’d rather present more entertaining news than just straight news, which might be too heavy for people at that time of the night.
Not many people know that I’m gay and I don’t go out of my way to tell anyone. I tried to be very out when I was 16 but it’s not really a big deal. My conservative mannerism was holding me back, especially coming from my background.
I try not to go to Soi 2 too much. DJ Station actually gives me a headache. There’s no way to walk inside.
No one would have wanted to come to party in Bangkok if they had to go to bed by 1am. The terrible state of the current licensing laws here in Bangkok is killing the local nightlife. The government thinks that everyone who comes into Thailand wants to hang out with elephants and pagodas.
Everywhere else, the nightlife scene is opening later and later, but Thailand seems to be going backwards. People should be going forwards, not paddling backwards into the past.
The gay scene in Bangkok doesn’t have much variety and it’s quite repetitive. Going out is not just about partying but also networking. At the moment, if you wanted to meet gay people, there are not a lot of options for you.
Gay NGOs are doing well for their part but they’re not really about meeting people. The word NGO already scares people off cause they think it’s going to be work.
A lot of brands are run by gay managers but there still seems to be some kind of strange homophobia in that they don’t want to be associated with gayness. If there is a good quality gay magazine, they should support it.
I don’t see any difference between gay men, gay women and heterosexuals. Being a good gay is no different from being a decent human being.
