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 Send Them Off Smiling... $12.00 send them off smiling... is packed with vocal talent, intellectually stimulating lyrics, and solid musicianship. It is sure to turn some heads. This is the debut studio release from ALSO. Independently released, the five song EP was recorded at 4th Street Recording Studio in Santa Monica and mastered at Marcussen Mastering in Hollywood.  Send Them to Hell: The Brutal Horrors of Bangkok's Nightmare Jails $17.95 This is the true story of 17 years in the life of a man called Sly. We learn little about him other than that he is British, married to a Thai, and living and working in Bangkok until he is arrested at a bank one day while waiting to meet a client and charged with buying and possessing heroin. Despite the lack of any proper evidence, he is eventually sentenced to death. If this sounds unlikely, given that his only mistake seems to have been - in his own words - to be a `sucker for the underdog' as well as showing - in hindsight at least - a touch of naivety, believe me, there is a terrifying whiff of authenticity about this tale, and Sly is a compelling, straight-talking narrator, despite the dodgy past he occasionally alludes to. Even worse, the friend who was arrested with him and who spent more than five years in jail beside him, committed no crime other than being with Sly on the day of the arrest to go apartment-hunting with him. As Sly fights for justice, he witnesses brutality and uncovers tales of treachery and abuse that are far more horrifying than his own. He pleads for the reform of the Thai judicial system, one which even high-ranking figures have admitted is corrupt, and is equally scathing in his accounts of the behaviour of the British government of the time as it shouts about world-wide human rights abuses. Sly is a born storyteller, and the characters simply jump out of the pages with life. This may not be a pleasant read, but it is an engrossing one. Whether we actually like Sly or not, I think most of us will be relieved that he survived the system, and can only admire his matter-of-fact account of a horrifying existence. |
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