Bangkok Gay Dance Clubs

[PeterRS]

One or two members here post about too much attention being gven to the "old days". We live in 2026 and should just enjoy what is on offer for gay men today. To a certain extent I agree and disagree. Enjoy the moment should be everyone's motto. But we should never forget that the "old days" for those of us who were around then were quite amazing and surely worth the occasional reminiscence. For had we not had the "old days", perhaps there would be little to enjoy today.  

[Patanawet]

Recently, I was talking with a friend and referred to D.J.Station as a 'disco'. His response --"my god, How old ARE you?"

P.S. I'm actually SO old that I think of a club as something one has to be a member of.

Edited 22 hours ago by Patanawet
P.S.

[mauRICE]

1 hour ago, Patanawet said:

P.S. I'm actually SO old that I think of a club as something one has to be a member of.

AA? 🤔

[vinapu]

15 hours ago, Enchanted_Elixir said:

Ah those days, and Soi Twilight 🕯️

me and Olddaddy remember parties Nero and Caligula were throwing in soi 2 when, what was then called  Siam,  was part of the Roman Empire. You youngsters don't know what you had missed !

[mauRICE]

46 minutes ago, vinapu said:

me and Olddaddy remember parties Nero and Caligula were throwing in soi 2 when, what was then called  Siam,  was part of the Roman Empire. You youngsters don't know what you had missed !

I read somewhere there was a Rome Club in that soi many years ago but it had burned down or something.

[thaiophilus]

2 hours ago, mauRICE said:

I read somewhere there was a Rome Club in that soi many years ago but it had burned down or something.

According to The Men of Thailand circa 1997, it was in Silom soi 4, but "in late 1993 the owner of Rome Club began refusing entrance to patrons thought to be gay" and the action moved to soi 2.

[mauRICE]

16 minutes ago, thaiophilus said:

According to The Men of Thailand circa 1997, it was in Silom soi 4, but "in late 1993 the owner of Rome Club began refusing entrance to "patrons thought to be gay" and the action moved to soi 2.

Patrons thought to be gay? How very dare they! Why that's like 90% of our forum members who can be spotted sashaying from a mile off!

Thank god I'm in the remaining 10%. 😉😎

 

 

[daydreamer]

17 hours ago, Patanawet said:

Recently, I was talking with a friend and referred to D.J.Station as a 'disco'. His response --"my god, How old ARE you?"

There are a few clubs in Bangkok and Pattaya that currently use the word Disco or Discotheque in their name.  The second photo below shows the Lucifer Disko sign on Walking Street in Pattaya.

Just tell your friend that you remember the New Screw Boys A Go Go Bar & Discotheque.

[PeterRS]

10 hours ago, mauRICE said:

I read somewhere there was a Rome Club in that soi many years ago but it had burned down or something.

Even before Telephone Bar, Balcony Bar and Sphinx, Soi 4 had one of the great dance clubs - Rome Club. Originally named the Siamese Doll Bar, by 1975 it was the 'in' place in Soi 4. I don't think it had discotheque in its title but it certainly was a disco and played great music. And how gay men of all ages thronged to it - and some girls as well! It was packed many nights of the week. It ran very successfully for many years until the owner decided for some reason to change the name around the end of the 1990s. I think it's name changed to Roxy and for a time around 2003 it hosted the group of professional dance students which had originated in Soi Twlight's X-Treme Bar. But the Club very quickly went down hill and then closed.

There was indeed a somewhat mysterious fire in the building in 1996 but the building certainly did not burn down. I think @mauRICE may be thinking about the ghastly disco fire in the Santika disco in Ekkamai in 2009 when 67 were killed and a further 222 injured. 

Discos were hugely popular in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and then with few exceptions the fad seemed to die off. Who now remembers the massive Ministry of Sound, a disco that lasted little more than a year, or the much more fashionable upmarket Bed Supper Club which closed in 2013?

[Keithambrose]

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

Even before Telephone Bar, Balcony Bar and Sphinx, Soi 4 had one of the great dance clubs - Rome Club. Originally named the Siamese Doll Bar, by 1975 it was the 'in' place in Soi 4. I don't think it had discotheque in its title but it certainly was a disco and played great music. And how gay men of all ages thronged to it - and some girls as well! It was packed many nights of the week. It ran very successfully for many years until the owner decided for some reason to change the name around the end of the 1990s. I think it's name changed to Roxy and for a time around 2003 it hosted the group of professional dance students which had originated in Soi Twlight's X-Treme Bar. But the Club very quickly went down hill and then closed.

There was indeed a somewhat mysterious fire in the building in 1996 but the building certainly did not burn down. I think @mauRICE may be thinking about the ghastly disco fire in the Santika disco in Ekkamai in 2009 when 67 were killed and a further 222 injured. 

Discos were hugely popular in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and then with few exceptions the fad seemed to die off. Who now remembers the massive Ministry of Sound, a disco that lasted little more than a year, or the much more fashionable upmarket Bed Supper Club which closed in 2013?

I assumed that was a reference to Nero fiddling (sic), while Rome burned.