M83 bring their stellar grooves and sweeping cinematic pop to Hong Kong
Five years since they hit the big time, the electro-pop pioneers are playing their first gig in the city – and even if you don’t know their name, you’ll undoubtedly recognise the music of theirs that has appeared in film and TV
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The past five years have been a whirlwind of success for French electro-pop outfit M83, thanks to a multi-million selling album that won a global fanbase by being featured in a string of Hollywood blockbusters.
But now M83 are ready to do things a little differently, with a project shrouded in such secrecy that frontman Anthony Gonzalez can give only the merest hint about its nature.
“I’m working on a project that’s neither pop nor movie soundtrack – I can’t speak about it,” Gonzalez says conspiratorially from Calgary in Canada, where he and the other four members of the M83 touring band are resting after a gig before flying off for the Asian leg of their world tour. “All I can say is, it’s still related to music. I want to try something else – a project that pushes me and leads to new inspiration and ways to express myself through music.”
If that sounds like a threat akin to David Bowie’s assassination of Ziggy Stardust in the early 1970s, Hong Kong fans do at least have a chance to catch the band before they potentially reinvent themselves: M83 play their debut gig in the city on Wednesday.
