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Adam Wright
Editor, Entertainment
Adam joined the Post in 1997 and worked in various roles before becoming entertainment editor in 2004.
Working in Australia from Instagram photos and Google Earth, artist Joshua Smith makes intricate models of buildings around the world. His latest is of a Hong Kong mahjong shop, one of the few still making mahjong tiles by hand.
Tickets for the 2021 edition of Hong Kong’s biggest annual music festival went on sale on March 3. The 2019 and 2020 festivals were cancelled because of the city’s anti-government protests and the coronavirus outbreak.
Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng, who made a video with food vlogger Mike Chen – apparently unaware he is a China critic – then withdrew it and apologised, responds to the backlash its withdrawal triggered.
INXS frontman Michael Hutchence filmed there. Filmmakers Christopher Doyle and Herman Yau, and political activist ‘Long Hair’, were regulars. Club 71 is the latest Hong Kong drinking institution to have been killed off by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Venues such as bars, restaurants and karaoke clubs have been allowed to reopen, so it makes little sense that the sea is still off limits.
Taiwanese singer-actor Alien Huang was found dead in his Taipei apartment after being involved in what is believed to have been a freak accident, making him the third 36-year-old Asian celebrity to die this week.
Hong Kong’s longest-running live-music venue, The Wanch, often likened to New York’s CBGB, is vacating its Wan Chai premises after 33 years. Owners vow to resume operating once Covid-19 crisis is fully over.
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Covid-19 crisis makes it impossible to stage Hong Kong’s biggest annual music and arts festival this November, Clockenflap organisers say. Last year, anti-government protests forced a halt.
Ownership of the Epizode music festival in Vietnam is being fought over by two groups, which both claim to be its founders. The battle is playing out on Facebook.
Chinese hip-hop artists Vava and Higher Brothers have this week shown their support for the Black Lives Matter protests in the US despite slamming Hong Kong’s anti-government demonstrations last year.
The cover version of Killing in the Name, sung by three-year-old Audrey with her father on guitar, has had 1.3 million views on Facebook and earned the praise of Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, the band behind the original.
Hong Kong bar and club owners are enduring a two-week shutdown as a coronavirus precaution. They agree with the closure, and are asking the government for help to pay rent and wages, but have received no reply.
What is wrong with the revellers who continue to throng the bars, clubs, and restaurants of Hong Kong nightlife districts such as Lan Kwai Fong, SoHo and Wan Chai when there’s a deadly virus spreading? Stay at home.
Large gatherings everywhere have been cancelled due to the virus, but in Britain, the Stereophonics put on three huge concerts. Comments on Chinese social media include: ‘Don’t ask for China’s help when things start to get bad’
A Hong Kong singer’s coronavirus-themed take-off of Natalie Imbruglia hit went viral this week. Kathy Mak says: ‘Emotionally the outbreak’s been quite a downer … I thought a song would be a fun way of looking at the situation.’
Held on a beach on Phu Quoc island, marathon music event Epizode featured some of the biggest names in EDM, such as Loco Dice, Ricardo Villalobos, and Moodymann. Also on offer: meditation, yoga, gong baths and art installations.
History, democracy, and creativity – or rather, the lack of it in contemporary Hong Kong – our most read stories of 2019 covered some big topics. None are bigger than love, the subject of Xinran Xue’s latest book about China.
K-pop was big in 2019, often for the wrong reasons – the deaths of singers Goo Hara and Sulli and the Burning Sun nightclub sex scandal. Away from K-pop, Post readers were most interested in Asian music festivals and DJ Tenashar’s decline and fall.
The jailing of Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon on rape charges is a welcome first step towards ending the misogyny and victim blaming that is rampant in the K-pop industry, Adam Wright says.
Tickets to the debut show by the controversial rocker go on sale on December 13
First Jonghyun, then Sulli, now Goo Hara: three stars dying in less than two years shows that something has gone tragically wrong in the K-pop industry, with the pressure placed on performers reaping a devastating cost today.
One week before the start of the three-day festival set to host Halsey, Babymetal and Mumford and Sons, organisers pull the plug and say ‘the situation has now made this impossible’
Mama ceremony has been staged in Hong Kong every year since 2012; while the cancellation was known about, this is the first time a source has confirmed anti-government protests are the reason for the decision.
Organisers say the cancellation of other events amid months of anti-government protest makes their mission to bring Hongkongers together more relevant than ever. Bombay Bicycle Club, Metronomy and Nick Murphy among names added to line-up.
Amid the Hong Kong protests, Rolling Loud, part of the world’s biggest hip hop festival, has been cancelled. Migos and Wiz Khalifa were among the artists booked to appear at the festival in West Kowloon Art Park.
China’s top female hip-hop star posted video captioned ‘Rolling Loud in Hong Kong … see ya’. Then she shared People’s Daily meme saying ‘I support Hong Kong police’. Was she dropped from line-up? Organisers won’t say.
Raise My Fist, by rapper Dwagie, contains lines such as ‘They want Hong Kong but not its people’, and comes after mainland Chinese rap acts such as Higher Brothers, Vava, PG One and CD Rev came out in support of Hong Kong police action against protesters.
US rappers like NWA and Public Enemy once urged their followers to stand up to the government and police – but Chinese acts don’t feel the same. For artists like Higher Brothers, Vava and CD Rev, nationalistic pride comes first.
Amid the summer of unrest gripping Hong Kong, Chinese celebrities like K-pop star Lay Zhang Yixing are nailing their colours to the mast as they rush to assure fans of their support for one China, writes entertainment editor Adam Wright.
