Live music bars in Bangkok

Six bars in Bangkok on Weavify put a stage before a sound system, and they play very different rooms. Smalls Jazz occupies three levels of a converted shophouse in Suan Phlu with exposed brick and a Parisian feel, running live jazz from Wednesday through the weekend and DJ sets besides. White Rabbit sits at the mouth of Silom Soi 2 and puts singers on from about half past eight nightly, working 1990s British pop, rock and R&B, and does not close until four in the morning.

Nunglenlen is the long-running one, on the corner of Soi Ekkamai 5, with live Thai bands seven nights a week covering Thai standards and international hits until three. Old Dirty in Saphan Khwai is a gastropub inside the Aqua Project complex where the music lands mostly at weekends from eight, with Thai artists on some weeknights.

Thonglor holds the other two, and both are bigger productions. TERRA on Thonglor 10 alternates three live bands with three DJs from seven in the evening. HAUS runs a dedicated live music room alongside a rooftop terrace, in a Greco-Roman interior of columns and crimson light. Neither has hours recorded on Weavify, so confirm the night before you go. Smalls closes on Tuesdays.

4 of the 6 stay open past midnight: Old Dirty, Nunglenlen, Smalls Jazz Bar Bangkok and White Rabbit Bar. Not open every day: Smalls Jazz Bar Bangkok (closed Tue).