Singapore CityEntertainment

Bar, Live Music entertainment in Singapore City

  1. Night & Day

    Art-school cool meets techno-groove chic at this three-storey bar, gallery and happening space located in a 1950s art deco building, smack in the centre of Singapore’s burgeoning art-student district. The space has a 2nd-floor bar featuring drinks and live music (from grunge and heavy metal to more esoteric stuff), and the 3rd floor has an art-space where local students show their latest work. The second storey is taken up by the architecture studio of co-owner Randy Chan.

    reviewed

  2. A

    Thumper Bar

    Taking up a fair chunk of the 1st floor of the beautiful and très elegant Goodwood hotel, Thumper is as high-class a joint as you’d expect – collared shirts, no shorts, and for god’s sake, if you’re wearing Crocs, don’t even think about it. Thumper offers live bands five nights a week (Wednesday is quiet night, and Sundays it’s closed), and has a lovely dance-floor attracting a hip twenty-something crowd.

    reviewed

  3. B

    Red Lantern Beer Garden

    For a taste of old Singapore, head to the seedy, bayside Red Lantern Beer Garden where bands often play, cheap meals are served, and you can get a reasonably priced beer. It can get pretty rowdy late at night. There are so many bars, most with outdoor tables, that you can just wander along until one takes your fancy.

    reviewed

  4. C

    BluJaz Cafe

    Live jaz (sic) is only played here on Saturday nights and on the first Monday each month. This bohemian-decorated eatery is popular for its wide range of Asian and Western dishes and the belly dancer on the first and third Friday of each month.

    reviewed

  5. D

    Crazy Elephant

    Anywhere that bills itself as ‘crazy’ should set the alarm bells ringing, but you won’t hear them once you’re inside. This touristy rock bar is beery, blokey, loud, graffiti-covered and testosterone-heavy –rock on!

    reviewed

  6. E

    Wala Wala

    This extremely popular bar is loud, raucous and friendly. Seating downstairs is open and breezy while the live-music bar upstairs focuses on danceable, singable, air-punchable tunes.

    reviewed