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Between songs, not during
Catch the singer's eye when the last chord rings out. Nobody hears a request shouted over a solo, and the guitarist will not thank you.
The band · Tuesday to Sunday · 9 PM–1 AM · Las Vegas Beer Garden
MHz Band Thailand. Six nights. One stage.
The house band at the back of the hall, playing rock and pop to a room that sings back. This is who they are, how a night's three sets run, how a request works, and why the seats beside them are the ones with our name on.
Tue – Sun
Six nights, from 9 PM
Three sets
About forty minutes each, until late
Rock & pop
The songs the room knows
Requests
Between songs. Sundays say yes.
Who they are
A band that has done this a thousand nights, and plays like it is the first.
Six nights a week on the same stage would flatten most bands. MHz Band Thailand have the opposite problem: they know the room so well that they can play to it. A drummer who counts in with both sticks up, so the front tables see it coming. A singer who takes requests between songs and means it. A guitarist who keeps the solos for the second set and a bass player who holds the whole thing down from the back corner, under the exit sign.
What they play is rock and pop covers, and we are not going to pretend otherwise: this is a beer garden with a stage, not a jazz club, and the job is to give a hall of British, Australian, Scandinavian and Thai regulars something they can all sing. Classic rock. The eighties. The nineties, more than you would expect. The songs whose choruses come back off the tables.
What makes them worth a page is that they are tight. Tight in the way a band gets when it plays to the same room six nights a week and can hear when the room wants the next song a little faster. One reviewer wrote that the musicians here "don't seem to play the tired old tracks on repeat that some do in Pattaya," and while that review was of a different bar, we are borrowing the standard, because it is the one MHz meet.
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MHz Band Thailand, the whole band, on the stage before the first set, looking at the camera
7:45 PM, any band night, house lights up
How a night runs
Three sets, three different rooms.
The band plays from nine until 1 AM in sets of about forty minutes. The room at nine and the room at one are not the same room, and the band knows it.
First set, from nine
The warm-up
The songs a whole hall of strangers already knows the words to. Played tight, at a volume the tables can talk over. The band reads the room; the room reads the band.
Second set, around ten
The showcase
Louder. The guitar solos they save for a room this size, the songs they are proudest of, and the first requests from the stage-side tables.
The late set, after midnight
The one people talk about
Everyone still here wants to be here. Choruses come back off the tables. On Saturdays the back of the hall is on its feet. On Sundays they play what you ask for.
What a set actually sounds like
Forty minutes, roughly. It opens with something everybody in a hall of British, Australian, Scandinavian and Thai regulars can sing, because the first job of the first set is to turn a room that is talking into a room that is facing the stage. The middle of the set is where the band's own taste shows: a run of eighties rock, a nineties song nobody expected, something Thai that the tables nearest the stage know every word of and the tourists learn the chorus of by the second time round. The set closes with a guitar solo that has been saved for it and a song with a chorus, and then the drummer puts his sticks down, the house lights come up a notch, and the screens behind our counter show the football with the sound off for fifteen minutes.
Three sets a night, and they are not the same set played three times. The first is the warm-up. The second, around ten, is the one the band is proudest of and the loudest of the night. The late set, after midnight, is played to the people who stayed, and it is where the requests get honoured and the room sings. If you can only hear one, hear the second. If you can only hear one on a Sunday, hear the third.
Six nights a week, and why that is not a problem
A house band that plays the same room six nights a week could go two ways. It could become wallpaper: the same set, the same jokes, the same solo, until the regulars stop looking up. Or it could become the thing a room is built around, because the band knows the room better than the room knows itself. MHz Band Thailand are the second kind, and the evidence is simple: the Thursday regulars, who could come any night and have heard every song, come on Thursday. A reviewer of another bar in the city praised its musicians for not playing "the tired old tracks on repeat that some do in Pattaya." That review was not about us. The standard is.
Monday the band rests and the complex's DJ has the stage. That is the easiest night of the week for a stage-side table and the night the band rests.
Requests
How to get a song played. The etiquette, from the counter.
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Classic rock wins
The band's deepest catalogue is the one the whole room knows. Ask for something everybody can sing and the odds are excellent. Ask for something only you know and the odds are Sunday.
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The two-second conference
Watch the band after you ask. A glance between the singer and the guitarist, a nod or a head-shake, and either the drummer counts it in or the singer offers you something close. Both outcomes are a good night.
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A handwritten set list taped to a monitor or the floor
Before or after a set
The room they play to
The best seats are ours. We are not modest about it.
The stage belongs to the complex and every one of the ten bars hears the same set. The tables along the right-hand edge of the stage belong to KQ Bar, three metres from the drum kit, and they are the only seats in the hall where the band is in front of you rather than behind. The seat map has the rest, including the time each row goes.
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The crowd at KQ's tables singing back at the band
The late set, Friday or Saturday
The week
Band six nights. DJ two.
Monday the complex's DJ takes the same stage, and the stage-side tables are the easiest of the week to get. Each night has its own page, because each night runs differently.
Asked
Six questions about the band.
Who is the band at Las Vegas Beer Garden?
MHz Band Thailand, the house band, on the stage at the back of the hall from 9 PM to 1 AM Tuesday to Sunday. On Monday the complex's DJ plays the same stage.
What do they play?
Rock and pop covers: classic rock, the eighties and nineties, the songs a mixed crowd of British, Australian, Scandinavian and Thai regulars will all sing. It is a beer garden, not a jazz club, and the band plays to the room.
Can I request a song?
Yes. Catch the singer's eye between songs or walk up in a break. Classic rock gets the best response. The worst outcome is a polite shake of the head and a counter-offer. Sundays are the night they take the odd ones.
How long do they play?
From nine until 1 AM, in sets of about forty minutes with short breaks. The late set on a Friday or Saturday ends at 1 AM. In the breaks the screens behind KQ's counter carry the sport, sound off.
Where is the best place to watch them?
The tables along the right-hand edge of the stage, which belong to KQ Bar. Three metres from the drummer. On Fridays and Saturdays they go by half past seven; the seat map explains the rest.
Is there a cover charge?
No. No cover, no minimum, no ticket. The stage is the complex's, the band plays for the whole hall, and the seats beside it are ours.
Checked 9 September 2026. The schedule and the band's name are the bar's; the photos are the bar's and the band's, used with their permission. What the sets feel like is the counter's opinion after two years of standing behind it. The band do not have a page of their own online that we can link to, so this is it.
How to find us
At the stage, look right. That's us.
One way in, one way out. Nine bars stand between the gate and us, and each will invite you in. Keep walking.
Come in from Soi Diana
The big Las Vegas Beer Garden sign, two minutes from LK Metro. Free entry, no ticket, no dress code.
Walk straight up the middle
Past Pocket Kings, Palace, the V Bar, Full House, Viva, Aces High, MGN and Black Jack. The music gets louder with every step.
At the stage, look right
A black disc ringed with bulbs, a gold crown over the K. That's the door. The toilets are just past it, which is why everyone walks by at least once.
Or let your phone do it
KQ has its own pin on Google Maps, separate from the complex. Tap it and the blue dot ends at our bar, not the front gate.
Open KQ Bar in Maps