Jam again: Sathorn art bar to reopen under new owner

Martin Nilsson was curating movie nights at an artsy dive bar off lower Sathorn Road when the pandemic forced it to close, a move that would prove permanent.

On July 1, he will reopen Jam; a beloved bar where Bangkok’s music, arts, and party tribes gathered for everything from inscrutable Japanoise to sweaty hard rock; as its new owner.

“I want to keep it pretty much the way it’s been,” Nilsson, 45 told Coconuts. “There’s not a whole lot of underground live music venues that are like Jam. So I kind of want to keep it the way it’s been.”

In late 2018, Nilsson, an insurance attorney in his hometown outside Gothenburg, Sweden, had become a regular at Jam, which opened in 2012.

“I think its different than other places, and why it became my regular home, it is a magnet for good people,” he added. “I’ve always had great talks and discussions…