Thanks to all the guys who took the trouble to reply your advice is noted.
We will be arriving in patong about 1500 hours from bangkok on Monday 31st October and staying for 7 Days before flying on to Pattaya for 1 week and then finishing in Lamai beach (samui) for 6 days, My god i will need another week off work just to recover when i get home.
If any of you guys either live in Patong or will be there at That time and fancy a night on the piss with 3 scotsmen and give us the benefit of your experience of patong it would be apreciated.
Regarding the live rock music, Some of us 40ish guys when we get pissed go up and make an ass of ourselves on the dance floor, my vice is going up and singing with the band and indeed some nights if i am not too pissed playing guitar also i must be half decent because i find sometime i am up there for an hour but as you guys know whilst the thais are absolutely brilliant musicians 95% of the time their vocal skills are akin to a the sound of a man being castrated without being anaesithised so i would not have to be so good to have people asking me to sing more songs if it meant the thai singer was being shut up! Big word of advice if you are pissed and happen to get up with the band remember your limitations Once about 4 years back i found myself in the Gene bar on Soi Bintaban in Hua Hin and proceeded to give everyone my full reportoire (guns and roses, bon jovi etc) for my grand encore i finished of with what i was told by everyone was a great version of enter sandman by Metalica thats all very well but when i woke the next morning i found that i could not utter a single word and indeed despite going to the doctors for several remedies and medicines no sound was forthcoming from me for 9 days so now 2 songs and the fat lady sings .
Anyway good luck to everybody and if anyone is ever in my vicinity in Scotland which is Ayrshire give me a call and i would meet up for a drink and a chat although dont expect the nightlife in my part of the world to come anywhere thailand
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