Never spent much time in Nana. Although Chequers Bar and Joolz on soi 4 were good places to drink. Once spent a mad Songkran there for a few days in the mid 90's when the rest of the city appeared deserted and we drove on the Expressway for about 1 minute with no other cars in sight. Surreal moment. .
Otherwise, used to spend a lot of time on Suk 23 in the New Cowboy bar as a mate owned it back then, and frequented a few Thai "Gentlemen's Clubs" (there was one called "Oui" which was outstanding) with some seriously-minted Thai businessmen we were working with at the time.
Jesus H C, we're going down memory lane here . I met Matty Swire in Manila in the 80's, and believe that was where his first foray into the bar-game was. He was partnered up in a bar called Thriller on Del Pilar and the main owner's name was Michael Jackson (I shit you not!).
I didn't know about Kim Fletcher's origins in Bangkok, and don't know him well but first met him when he was running Shenanigans under the Loyen Garden Hotel in Pattaya sometime around 1999.
And if we're talking about Woodstock we have to mention G-Spot next door, which would be one of the best Gogo bars I've ever pushed a curtain aside to enter. A free pitcher of pool water goes to the first playa who remembers what was in the back left-hand corner .
^ I still see Kim Fletcher a few times a week and Matty Swire is apparently due back in Pattaya later this month.
Kim now owns Fletcher's Folly on Siam Country Club Rd and Matty is back working on the families' Cruise Liners.
I'm pretty sure he was Sri Lankan, although he might have been Goan.
He also had The Warbler, further down Soi 4. The whole thing was stolen from a bar in Bahrain of the same name, he even nicked the menu and the logo.
Shame he fucked it up, he was doing quite well with those two venues at one point. He started shuffling to and fro to Pattaya with the intention of opening up something there. I think that's where the "getting investors" idea came from.
Kim has sort of retired from his Pattaya adventures, although his wife now has a bar called "Fletcher's Folly" and I think he "does PR" for her for want of a better phrase.
I'd be surprised if Kim isn't a member here.
I remember being asked in Jools if I wanted to share a taxi to DM with some seppo who was on his way back to Aramco. He couldn't keep up with Jools rotational drinking policy. I literally had to carry him through the airport and get him on the plane. He woke up over India with no clue how he got there.
He told me he was Indian and the Indian food he sold in Warbler was very good from memory.
Warbler was the late night live music venue and very often it was packed.
I often sat in on drums especially when Big Jeff, the huge Scandaholigan guitarist was playing a gig.
Santos' missus also had a hair dressing salon further down Soi 4 and she was doing very well also.
I agree that it was a shame greed got to him.
Another great character and bar owner was Big Wes who had the Hogsbreath. Sundays were spent there having the free chili, watching sport on TV and very often nursing a hangover. Lots of sport newspapers as well.
When Big Dave got married he weighed around 215 kgs, hence the big chair.
Last I heard about the chair it was sent to Pattaya when Dave and Kim opened TQ 2 which didn't last very long.
I will check with Kim today where it is now.
And last I heard about Big Dave his weight had dropped to 110 kgs.
No, you'd be thinking of After School on Cowboy for that in the back left hand corner (according to a friend, who said handjobs with baby oil were also known to happen to anyone silly enough to sit in that corner with no pants on, for the 5th time that week).
G-Spot had a large glass fronted shower that girls would get in and help wash each other till they were squeaky clean. Beat the hell out of watching soccer .
I was gonna say shower. So Spankys was the old G Spot?
You know something is missing when the 1990s and 2000s are romantically waxed upon as the good old days.
Please...
I do remember that. Used to be my Friday night routine. Stop at the pet shop to buy some bait fish (20B) to feed the Oscars, stop off to get my 3 Changs and some durian (in season). Eventually the Changovers got too hard, too much pain for so little alcohol ingested.
My Nana recollections are not as happy as otters. I remember the pre Taksin drug war era when ยาบ้า was flooding the streets and you could get 3 pills for as little as a 100 baht. I took a stroll down Nana and the girls all looked like twitchy Skeletors. There was a dark vibe about the place. I went back to the beer bars on Soi 22.
Some people think it don't, but it be.
It was still there when TQ2 was open as was living in Bangkok but would drink in TQ2 at the weekends, probably a family sofa somewhere now! I heard he had lost a lot of weight!
He was a big unit for sure! I used to eat breakfast there when it was quite and the chair was unoccupied the enormity of it was more obvious!
Yep. I remember michael jackson from angeles. The bar in manila (thriller) had gone to shit after mayor lims purge basicly turning the area into a slum and ghost town Always a very well dressed geezer and quietly spoken . I dont think he got his "manila mojo" back in angeles and became increasingly dishevelled. Wonder where he ended up? But sadly for the life of me i cant remember what was in the back left hand corner of d woodstock. I will have a think
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