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Babyface
Three levels of harbourside decadence: chill-out bar, live band room and pumping disco. The house band's unsexy stage posturing is unforgivable, but baby-faced clubbers don't seem to mind.
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Bellini Room
Cool, stylish jazz and swing bar lit in deep red and blue, with a live band doing sets throughout the night. Great fun.
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Bernie's Bfd
American-style saloon bar popular with East Coast expats, taking full advantage of the sea breezes and its seaside location, but retaining the dimly lit, dark-wood interior serious boozers require. There's live music most nights.
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Blooie's Roadhouse
Though hidden up a suburban side street in the heart of the affluent Siglap district, this jovial, rough-hewn bar feels like it should be facing a beach (or, apparently, a North American highway), with a rustic outdoor area, live music, hearty pub food and a boozy crowd.
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Blue Note
Yep, management sure thought long and hard about naming this jazz bar, but Blue Note does rain some classy musical atmospheria on Circular Rd's bleary, karaoke-strained parade. Good for an afternoon brew too.
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Blujaz Café
A beautiful old building, renovated as a bar and decorated in a decidedly eccentric bohemian style which, coupled with its location on the edge of the Arab Quarter and next to an artists' studio, makes it pretty much unique in Singapore. Live jazz downstairs on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays completes the mood.
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Brix
If you make it past the goons at the door, you can spend the night lurching between the whisky bar (single malt heaven), wine bar (namesake brickwork and impressive wine list) and music room (bands, R&B/disco/soul DJs, and dancing).
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Crazy Elephant
If the remodelled Clarke Quay is a collection of eager-faced college kids, then Crazy Elephant is the crusty bloke in the corner watching them out of the corner of his eye and shaking his head. One of Singapore's oldest, trustiest live-music venues, this is the place to ditch all that electronic nonsense and listen to some serious, loud rock and blues.
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Cuba Libre
Follow the sound of trilling trumpet for a night of mojitos, live Cuban music and dancing, or alternatively sit at a table, get drunk and watch parades of eager Singaporean salsa students going through the motions. Raucous and fun.
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Dragonfly
Hugely popular Cantopop and Mandopop club, with live bands (featuring regulation sexily-clad girls and spiky-haired boys) and a curious PVC pipe ceiling design. Expect to be the only foreigner in here.
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Hacienda
One of the best bars around the Dempsey Rd area to kick off the shoes in the garden after a long hot day, sink a few mojitos or draught beers under the trees and contemplate the evening sky - at least until the band comes on.
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Harry's Bar
The original and best. Harry's is a classic financial-district hangout that gained moderate infamy as the haunt of Barings-buster Nick Leeson and remains a favourite for its jovial atmosphere and great live jazz, blues and R&B.
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Ice Cold Beer
A raucous rock pub in Emerald Hill, a pedestrianised lane of crumbling, lantern-lit shophouses. There can be few more atmospheric spots in the city to stop for a drink - that is until you realise it's all a bit of a charade. That little neighbourhood bar strip is entirely owned by a single company, but even so the drinking holes are all good, drawing crowds of locals and tourists alike.
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Jazz@Southbridge
It's not easy to find top nonclassical musical acts in Singapore, but this relaxed bar has come up trumps. Run by an irrepressible vibe-playing enthusiast, it regularly features performers from around the world, but it's worth going most nights to see the house band, especially magnificent but largely unheralded drummer Tan Boon Gee. Regular bassist Eddie Jansen and occasional pianist Mario Sero are also excellent.
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Marco Anywhere
This place has been around forever, and so has the house band who play covers to loyal locals and expats - often 35-plus. Drinking horrendous quantities might help you cope with the pink and grey interior. No need to get dressed up.
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Movida
Decked out like a '70s disco, this Latin dance club features an excellent, eye-catching, thoroughly danceable band from Paraguay. The best of the lot.
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Muddy Murphy's
Ok ok, it's another Irish pub, but the substreet level courtyard also singles this one out from the rest and makes it a perfect retreat from Orchard Rd. Live bands play here regularly, a few of the deedly-deevariety.
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Paulaner Brauhaus
Wear your best pastel-striped shirt or power dress to mix with the business crowd downing highly addictive German beers at this convention-centre microbrewery. The inconvenient location at soulless Suntec City means that once you've made the effort to get here, you might as well dig in for the long haul. Two more please, fraulein.
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Penny Black
Homesick Brits populate this trad English pub, doubling as the home of the Liverpool FC supporters club. Big-screen TVs, decent pub grub, live music on Fridays and happy hours from opening till - not a bad combo.
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Prince of Wales
Rough at the edges, knockabout Australian-style pub and beer garden, with scuffed wooden floors, Gippsland Pale on tap, acoustic strummers and live bands, and appropriately laconic blokes behind the bar. A slightly surreal enclave of non-Indians amid the Sunday evening Little India melee.
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Privé
Located on an island out in the middle of Keppel Harbour, with the city on one side and Sentosa on the other, you couldn't ask for a better location for evening drinks, or Sunday morning brunch. Attracts an affluent, well-dressed crowd, with guest DJs and occasional live music. The attached Australian-style restaurant is worth staying for.
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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, so just go with it.
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Singapore Symphony Orchestra
The outstanding SSO likes its venues grand - it plays regularly at its Esplanade home and also at the splendid Victoria Concert Hall and also, most memorably of all, on the Symphony Stage in the Botanic Gardens.
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The Arena
Touted as the largest live-music space in Singapore, this slick venue wheels out international bands and DJs for short residences or one-off gigs. Expect danceable mainstream Top 40, hip-hop and house to a cashed-up crowd.
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The Boiler Room
Straight-up, no frills rock and pop club, with a Filipino band performing Western hits to a largely table-bound audience.
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