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Clockenflap: archive

Clockenflap: archive
Stories, photos and features from previous Clockenflap festivals
last updated:
9 September, 2024
Fans cheer during Clockenflap 2016. Photo: Jonathan Wong
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15 years of Hong Kong’s Clockenflap festival in pictures: a visual history

From A$AP Rocky to Arctic Monkeys, a visual history of Hong Kong’s music and arts festival Clockenflap on its 15th year.

The music Clockenflap producer Kinny Barlow listens to, and stuff she watches and reads

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Clockenflap 2015 in pictures: Hong Kong gets its groove on

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Clockenflap 2015 Sunday: the people, the performances, the party, the big rock finish

Clockenflap 2015 delivered their biggest event in its 8 year history; recap as the SCMP team is blogged, photographed and tweeted it live until the last band. 

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Clockenflap first timers Denise Ho and Riz from King Ly Chee talk politics, culture and the music industry

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Clockenflap locals: an insider’s guide to the hottest Hong Kong acts on stage this weekend

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Clockenflap: the best things to catch on the third day

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Clockenflap: our pick of the best of the festival’s second day

From rock and pop to electronica and dance, here are the acts you shouldn’t miss on the second day of this year’s Clockenflap festival

Clockenflap: our pick of the first day of this year’s festival

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Shaolin Fez return to Clockenflap: the classical musicians who made a mini-orchestra play symphonic disco and acid jazz

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Shaolin Fez with bassist and band leader Sam Ferrer (second from right).
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Clockenflap: The life and near deaths of Pete Doherty, frontman of headliners The Libertines

The British singer finally kicked his heroin habit at a Thai rehab clinic. But with a world tour to deal with - including a set at Hong Kong's biggest music festival this month - many fear the singer's comeback is driving him towards a relapse, writes Simon Parry.

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Pete Doherty (left) and Carl Barat, in Si Racha, Thailand, in October last year. Photos: Red Door News Hong Kong; Corbis
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New Order top the bill at Hong Kong’s Clockenflap festival

The biggest Clockenflap yet! The line-up so far: Damien Rice, The Libertines and Blackalicious

Festival's eighth edition also includes Hong Kong's King Ly Chee and Taiwan's Crowd Lu with many more names to be confirmed

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British director seeks funding for film about choir of Hong Kong domestic helpers who will perform at Clockenflap

Choir of Hong Kong domestic helpers sing about the anguish of leaving their children behind in their home countries

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Film director Joanna Bowers, right, hopes to raise funds for her feature-length film about helpers such as Janai Abad, left.Photo: May Tse.
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Two years after their Clockenflap debut, Bastille go from strength to strength

British band Bastille owe some of their success to the Clockenflap festival.

Bastille. Photos: Corbis
Hong Kong dining & recommendations

I Know a Place: Justin Sweeting, Clockenflap music director

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Sounds and fury: guide to Clockenflap 2014

Clockenflap gets bigger and better every year. Here’s our choice of the must-sees acts of the harbourfront festival.

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Flaming Lips, Kool & The Gang and Mogwai added to Clockenflap bill

Expected to be the largest edition since it started seven years ago, next month’s Clockenflap will feature a diverse mix of musical styles.

The Flaming Lips. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Exclusive | China's youth has forgotten about politics, laments Cui Jian as he plays Clockenflap

Indifference to society is what distinguishes today's young generation of Chinese from his own, Cui Jian, the musician whose song Nothing To My Name became the anthem of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post.

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Disco band Chic stir up big crowd at West Kowloon's Clockenflap festival

The main day of the Clockenflap music and arts festival reached an early climax Saturday afternoon when disco band Chic delivered a note-perfect performance on the main stage.

Sounds unlimited: Our essential guide to the Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival

Franz Ferdinand may be headlining, but there is a plethora of other talent at Clockenflap. Adam Wright picks some of the support acts you won’t want to miss.

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Franz Ferdinand headline Clockenflap in return to Hong Kong

Franz Ferdinand in concert. Photo: AFP
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Clockenflap festival is music fans' big ticket

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Clockenflap Festival co-founder Mike Hill's favourite things

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