Off The Top: Where On A Weekend…?
Our mates over at Sukhumvit Eye magazine reckon there’s more to life than a good book and who am I to argue…with my girlfriend! We like music live and real and true but if you like hiphop, house, deep shit and drums and computers there are alternatives to engaging your brain.
Head for The Bed Supperclub on Sukhumvit Soi 11 or Tapas over on Silom Soi 4, a cool club with music, dancing and rhythms ranging from salsa to jazzy house and disco beats. Over on Ekkamai Sukhumvit Soi 63 you have Escudo between Thonglo Soi 13-15 and Weza and Santika further up the road. All ready to let you boogie your bits off full of cheap scotch and noxios nibbles.
The Soi 8 Bar and Restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 8 has a policy of good pub grub matched with good live music and another venue making a come back is Mojos on 33 with feature band 61 Highway.
On Sukhumvit Soi 55 - about half way along - there is the Guinness Book Of Records entrant the Log Cabin with a range of Thai bands who deliver the best the West has to offer - Country, Beatles, Funk and Jazz fans are all welcome.
A bit more down-to-earth is Tokyo Joe’s on Sukhumvit Soi 26 with live music seven nights a week - Latin on Mondays and blues most other nights. Virtually next door to TJs is Sopranos euphemistically called a gentleman’s club with the excellent Marie Band featuring Welsh singer Malissa on stage here most nights.
Not strictly on Sukhumvit, but on the infamous RCA, and well worth a mention is Overtone Music Cave built specifically as a live music venue first, with a great stage, great sound and video equipment and jazzy, fusionistic blues bands there every night and some of the finest fusion jazz bands in Thailand for sure.
Saxophone is down at Victory Monument, where great Thai bands deliver jazz, funk, ska, reggae pop and blues seven nights a week and where Thais happily mix with expats…who often as not outnumber locals on a good night.