Happy Songkran! It’s Songkran season in Thailand and parts of Indochina, and this means our T-pop artistes could either be on a vacation, or busy performing at Songkran shows across the country.
1. DICE RELEASED SONGKRAN VERSION OF MONA LISA
It’s fun, colourful and of course, wet.
2. PERSES IN HATYAI
The band headlined the Hatyai Songkran Festival 2024, at the city’s Central Hatyai shopping centre.
3. BUS CURATED A SONGKRAN PLAYLIST
The members from BUS – because of you I shine pooled together their favourite track for the season, to curate the group’s summer playlist. Phutatchai and Marckrit picked 4EVE’s hot2hot and หยดน้ำตา respectively. Can you guess what did the other members chose?
4. ATLAS’ PACKED SONGKRAN CALENDAR
The group is working hard this holiday, having to perform at at least six Songkran events including at the Thaiconic Songkran Festival at River Park Iconsiam and Siam Paragon Ultrasonic Water Festival 2024. The members however managed to find time to do a TikTok video to JUEPAK’s เมร่อน.
5. GEMINI, FOURTH AND JEFF SATUR JOINED RANGNAM’S PARADE
The King Power Rangnam’s Songkran Festival was a colourful, star-studded affairs with the likes of ‘Gemini’ Norawit Titicharoenrak, ‘Fourth’ Nattawat Jirochtikul, ‘Force’ Jiratchapong Srisang, ‘Book’ Kasidet Plookphol and Jeff Satur paraded on Songkran-themed floats within the Victory Monument district, and mini-concerts from Nont Tanont, Oat Pramote and many more.
6. 4EVE IN DEMAND
The popular girl group will need to VROOM VROOM across town with at least four shows scheduled this Songkran, including back-to-back events at the Thai Rhythm Songkran Music Festival at centralWorld and Thaiconic Songkran Festival at Iconsiam. (Here’s hoping the weather’s not hot2hot!)
7. PROXIE GIVING THEIR 100%
The group members have been performing TikTok dance challenge to their newly-released track ใจว่าใช่ (100% You), at almost every Songkran events that they performed at.
8. INK WARUNTORN GOT SPLASHED AT IN KHON KAEN
The Eyes Don’t Lie singer was one of the headliner at Saturday’s LEO SPLASH FEST concert in the Isan’s city, where she performed her hits dressed in the region’s traditional dress. Of course, she wouldn’t be able to escape the shots from the many water guns aimed at her.
9. LYKN CHARMS IN SUMMER WEAR
The band’s latest single ฉ่ำ (CHARM) is currently trending and has gotten everyone swaying their torsos, that they are organising a flash dance mob for 200 lucky participants at the Parc Paragon of Siam Paragon. Meanwhile, the five members shake it off to the Songkran-remix version of the song, dressed in shorts and summer prints.
10. ZOM MARIE ROCKS IN ORANGE ELEPHANT PRINTS
The singer was performing at the Summer-Cation Songkran Festival in Nonthaburi province, dressed in Thailand’s soft-power elephant prints, but in her favourite colour.
11. TILLY BIRDS, THREE MAN DOWN, PALMY ENGAGE IN WATER WAR IN CHIANG MAI
The massive festival also saw Bodyslam, Tattoo Colour, Taitosmith and Slot Machine joining thousands of revelers drenched under an exceptionally hot temperatures in northern region.
12. MILLI, PUN TOOK A SELFIE AT RCA
They were at the Summerland Water Fest in Bangkok, which also saw F. HERO, GUYGEEGEE, Klear, Lazyloxy and MAIYARAP headlining.
13. PP KRIT SAYS ‘HAPPY FAMILY DAY!’
Amid the wet fun and festivities, ‘PP’ Krit took time off to wish one and all a ‘Happy family day’. He even created a special filter for Instagram Story, urging fans to showcase their family and siblings today. It’s likely ‘PP’ is with family this festive weekend: he has cleared out his schedules for the weekend.
14. TIMETHAI RAISES KORAT TEMPERATURES
The unofficial king of this year’s Songkran celebrations brought temperatures a notch higher in Korat, performing the sizzling single Hit Me Up at the Splash Pool Party co-organised by The Mall Korat. Needless to say, the loose shirt Timethai had on was quickly gone, but the screams only got louder.
15. PiXXiE’S SAMYAN SONGKRAN DOUBLE BILL
PiXXiE kickstarted Songkran to a packed crowd at Samyan Mitrtown’s Songkran Festival on 13 April, performing crowd favourites like DEJAYOU and ติดฝน (rain). They returned to Samyan again a day later, and will be taking part in Samyan Water Street.
16. ALALA, VIIS MAKE A SPLASH
Girl groups ALALA (Whitefox Music) and VIIS (GNEST) were at Siam Center’s Splashtastic Fun Fest on 14 April, bringing some Songkran cheer with their bright colours and energy.
