given her outstanding success with "For Fun" I would not be holding my breath!

This is a follow-on from comments made in the "Silom Complex Closure - Bargains Galore!" thread by bkkguy, specifically about the old Rome Club site on Soi 4. A poster on GB’s forum had indicated the site was under renovation. That comment is inaccurate.

 

Not being a regular in Soi 4, I looked in last night around 11pm with some friends and noticed no renovation whatever, As bkkguy points out, a restaurant/bar with ‘live’ music named “For Fun” occupies that site.

 

If it’s new, it must surely already be dying on its feet. In the 90 minutes my friends and I were at Balcony, their six-piece band was breaking decibel levels - even outside. Inside, it was excruciatingly loud and painful! In that entire time, there was just one punter inside. Outside, there was again just one punter - being tended to by 6 waiters! With Balcony and Telephone Bar both around half-full, For Fun must be losing money hand over fist. So if it’s been around for some time, in my view it’s clearly time that it joined Rome/Roxy and all the other failed establishments which have occupied the site.

Just had it established that it's the same venue. It was closed for a quick makeover which included moving the stage. This now faces you as you enter - which means all that noise is projected forwards and out in to the soi! I'll mark it down for the Rome/Roxy/etc. graveyard ere long.

about earsplitting deafening loud music: walked by soi Mensgate/Hotmail yesterday (yes, the very 1st time this time in BKK for me)-just to see what has changed, and the level on entry from Suriwong was also full-blast untill the next 2 gogobars or so. And the touts there seem to have calmed down on about dragging you into their bars/shops/etc. But why do not these masageboys do that? They seem the best fit fr a short try out?

A few days ago, I met a Thai friend at Balcony (the part that is opposite For Fun - two House drinks for 99 Baht) and even there the music was too loud to have a conversation without shouting and repeating. That was around 11 pm.

 

Earlier in the evening, 6 to 7 pm, the music/noise level is ok.

 

I will reduce my visits to Soi 4 to one or two per holiday. In a gogo bar, I can use (and I do use) earplugs, but for drinking and chatting I will go somewhere else.