Supersweet

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SUPERSWEET Issue 5 featuring Nick Jago from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club by Kriangkrai Srithongthai

SUPERSWEET is a Thai-Anglo indie youth culture magazine focusing mainly on music, art, fashion and lifestyle. SUPERSWEET originally started as a fanzine supplement to DUDE/SWEET clubnight in Thailand in 2003. Both SUPERSWEET and DUDE/SWEET are credited with being responsible for the rise of alternative music and culture in Bangkok and by virtue, Thailand as a whole.

[edit] History

SUPERSWEET and DUDE/SWEET were created by Choltida Pekanan and Pongsuang Kunprasop, the former being based in London the latter in Bangkok. The connection to London has had a great influence on the music played at the club night as it was the only outlet for alternative music at the time. Also part of the scene are bands such as Futon and Modern Dog. The success of these bands and DUDE/SWEET had a major impact on Bangkok's youth culture has seen the birth of several other alternative club nights in the city.

[edit] Content

SUPERSWEET magazine is known for its fun styling, innovative typography, and random elements. Thailand's top photographers Pansiri Siriwechapan, Kornkrit Jianpinidnun and Kriangkrai Srithongthai have produced work for SUPERSWEET. Contributors often include artists and musicians such as: The Kills, The Secret Machines, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Bright Eyes.

The magazine too has the online edition, sharing the site with its (Thailand's) party site www.dudesweet.org which has amusing and random elements like SUPERSWEET TV and monthly/weekly columns by their favourite artists. The website will launch its own UK-based site in mid-2007 on www.supersweet.org along with a brand new interactive website. Readers can also find them on www.myspace.com/supersweetmagazine.

In January 2007, SUPERSWEET launched a competition inviting the bands of Myspace to submit one of their songs to a panel of judges. The competition saw a large number of unsigned bands enter and the results were announced in March. At the top were Anglo-French band The Teenagers (not to be confused with the American doo-wop group of the same name).