Winter of our disco tents
Get your dance groove on as the city prepares to host a flurry of festivals to see out the year, writes Rachel Mok
Not long ago, music lovers could be heard complaining about the lack of festivals in Hong Kong. How times have changed. In the last few months of 2013 alone sizeable music events are being held almost every weekend at the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade.
Before the Clockenflap festival (November 29-December 1), Blohk Party (December 7) and the Freespace Festival (December 15-16), the waterfront area will play host to the Lion Rock Music Festival on November 2.
According to Vinci Chan Wing-sze, managing director of the event's organiser 168 Productions, the Lion Rock Music Festival features the "strongest line-up, with multiple food and drinks vendors on site, which guarantees a full day of excitement for festivalgoers".
Where Lion Rock Music Festival really stands out is in its proud line-up of Hong Kong acts, mixing mainstream and independent artists.
"We hope to create a music festival that belongs to the Hong Kong people and shows support for local music. We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce more new and independent bands to the audience," Chan says.
The festival is going about this introduction in a fairly hectic manner, presenting 16 acts in seven hours. Larger acts, such as LMF and RubberBand, will play 30-minute sets, while independent bands, including Chochukmo, ni.ne.mo and KillerSoap, will each play three or four songs earlier in the day, according to the organiser.
