Where has The Malibu Show moved to?

[thaibeachlovers]

Where it used to be is now a 7 11.

I have checked on google and the only decent reference I can find says it is where it is not. Obviously needs updating.

For those that don't know, plenty of pics if you use google images.

 

Thanks.

[thaibeachlovers]

Thanks for replies. Shame if it has closed, as was a brilliant show, and had real girls as well as katoeys.

[lostinisaan]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Thanks for replies. Shame if it has closed, as was a brilliant show, and had real girls as well as katoeys.

 

 I guess they only became real in your dreams......na Ha. 

[thaibeachlovers]

8 hours ago, lostinisaan said:

 

 I guess they only became real in your dreams......na Ha. 

What a silly thing to say. Of course they had real girls. Maybe recently they only had ladyboys, I haven't been around for a couple of years.

[Henryford]

Not moved it's closed down, sad because it was a good show. Just part of Pattaya's decline.

[thaibeachlovers]

Hmmmmm. I guess you haven't been in Pattaya long enough to know about the Malibu show. It had been around probably at least 30 years, and had boys, real girls as well as ladyboys. The boss was married and had a kid, but he liked dressing up as Tina Turner and other ladies.

I first saw it back in the 90s when it was on the corner of Soi Post Office and Second, and I always spent some time there every night I was in Pattaya.

Some time this century it moved to a place near Soi 10, where it never did as well due to the room, and they moved back to the old location.

It was far better than the usual lady boy cabaret due to the very energetic real girls it employed, and the professionalism of the dancers.

such a shame if it has gone for good.

It must have entertained hundreds of thousands of tourists over the years.

[NanLaew]

A fair few years back (and that's a lot more than just a couple of years ago) it was a fun place getting a good crowd with alternately good bands and half-decent, low-budget ladyboy shows. But Malibu's last couple of reincarnations at the old location were totally and absolutely dire; the complete pit of Pattaya's questionably famous 'cabaret' shows. It's not often that the creation of 'yet another' 7-eleven gets people all excited but as a regular patron of an establishment across the street that had to put up with Malibu's caterwauling and banshee screams after 8 PM every night, it's affirmation that wherever (or if ever) Malibu reopens, it won't be within our earshot.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, NanLaew said:

A fair few years back (and that's a lot more than just a couple of years ago) it was a fun place getting a good crowd with alternately good bands and half-decent, low-budget ladyboy shows. But Malibu's last couple of reincarnations at the old location were totally and absolutely dire; the complete pit of Pattaya's questionably famous 'cabaret' shows. It's not often that the creation of 'yet another' 7-eleven gets people all excited but as a regular patron of an establishment across the street that had to put up with Malibu's caterwauling and banshee screams after 8 PM every night, it's affirmation that wherever (or if ever) Malibu reopens, it won't be within our earshot.

I hear what you are saying. Very sad. Many a happy night I spent sitting at the bar watching the show.

I also understand what you say about the noise in the bar across the road, but honestly, all it would have taken was for the bar owner to erect a glass wall along that side to prevent that. However, that would have entailed actually doing something rather than just waiting for the money to roll in, and we all know that is not the way things happen here.

[NanLaew]

13 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

... all it would have taken was for the bar owner to erect a glass wall along that side to prevent that.

...or the Malibu management could have erected a glass wall to keep their awful row inside? The bars in question are the open air bar beer style and glassing in their shop fronts would change the whole experience, especially the Bodega on the corner (not my local BTW). No, a couple of years ago during the first of the last miserable Malibu reincarnations, the place suffered from the traditional 'louder than it has to be' aspect that blights the beer bar arcades elsewhere. Nothing worse than the clueless manager of an empty bar who cranks up the music to ear-splitting levels to 'bring the customers in'. The happy times that you recall, everything was in moderation and everyone had a great time, including the customers in other bars.

[thaibeachlovers]

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

...or the Malibu management could have erected a glass wall to keep their awful row inside? The bars in question are the open air bar beer style and glassing in their shop fronts would change the whole experience, especially the Bodega on the corner (not my local BTW). No, a couple of years ago during the first of the last miserable Malibu reincarnations, the place suffered from the traditional 'louder than it has to be' aspect that blights the beer bar arcades elsewhere. Nothing worse than the clueless manager of an empty bar who cranks up the music to ear-splitting levels to 'bring the customers in'. The happy times that you recall, everything was in moderation and everyone had a great time, including the customers in other bars.

True, but you know that's not the way it happens here.

[LongTimeLurker]

17 hours ago, NanLaew said:

...or the Malibu management could have erected a glass wall to keep their awful row inside? The bars in question are the open air bar beer style and glassing in their shop fronts would change the whole experience, especially the Bodega on the corner (not my local BTW). No, a couple of years ago during the first of the last miserable Malibu reincarnations, the place suffered from the traditional 'louder than it has to be' aspect that blights the beer bar arcades elsewhere. Nothing worse than the clueless manager of an empty bar who cranks up the music to ear-splitting levels to 'bring the customers in'. The happy times that you recall, everything was in moderation and everyone had a great time, including the customers in other bars.

 

I used to drink in a corner bar and another new bar opened on the corner opposite, only a few paces away (not the other side of a road, just an alley). The other bar had it's speakers facing outwards and played loud music even when empty, making it impossible to hear the television or music in the bar I was at.

 

A polite request was made to the owner of the new bar owner to turn his speakers facing inwards to his bar to reduce the effect of the annoyance. It never happened.

 

How many times have I stopped at a bar with a couple of mates because there was no music only to get our beers and then have the music cranked up. And when asked to turn it off again the staff reply, 'cannot, boss says to play music because the customers like it'. But we are the only customers and we don't like it. Thai logic!!!

[thaibeachlovers]

9 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

 

I used to drink in a corner bar and another new bar opened on the corner opposite, only a few paces away (not the other side of a road, just an alley). The other bar had it's speakers facing outwards and played loud music even when empty, making it impossible to hear the television or music in the bar I was at.

 

A polite request was made to the owner of the new bar owner to turn his speakers facing inwards to his bar to reduce the effect of the annoyance. It never happened.

 

How many times have I stopped at a bar with a couple of mates because there was no music only to get our beers and then have the music cranked up. And when asked to turn it off again the staff reply, 'cannot, boss says to play music because the customers like it'. But we are the only customers and we don't like it. Thai logic!!!

True.

Many is the bar I have not gone into because the music is so loud it is painful. Then there are the bars that play painful ( to me ) "music", like rap or whatever is the latest noise that the DJs like. The worst for that is the gogos, and again, many that I will not go into, or leave in short order because I hate whatever they are playing. They don't seem to realize that the Pattaya clientel are not young people that like that sort of thing, but oldies like me. A case of the DJs playing what THEY like, and not trying to attract customers.

 

[NanLaew]

On 9/29/2016 at 6:17 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

True.

Many is the bar I have not gone into because the music is so loud it is painful. Then there are the bars that play painful ( to me ) "music", like rap or whatever is the latest noise that the DJs like. The worst for that is the gogos, and again, many that I will not go into, or leave in short order because I hate whatever they are playing. They don't seem to realize that the Pattaya clientel are not young people that like that sort of thing, but oldies like me. A case of the DJs playing what THEY like, and not trying to attract customers.

 

TQ mate.... daytime is playtime. All the George Thorogood, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi, Stranglers, AC-DC, Springsteen and KOL that you can shake your woggle stick at.

[thaibeachlovers]

On ‎30‎.‎09‎.‎2016 at 2:08 AM, NanLaew said:

TQ mate.... daytime is playtime. All the George Thorogood, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi, Stranglers, AC-DC, Springsteen and KOL that you can shake your woggle stick at.

Sounds good. G T is the man.