To the delight of the city’s musos, Clockenflap, Hong Kong’s biggest annual outdoor music and arts festival, returns this month for the first time in over four years. Justin Sweeting, Clockenflap’s co-founder, vividly remembers the team’s decision to pull the plug exactly a week before the 2019 edition. The November event had on the line-up Japanese rock group Babymetal, American singer-songwriter Halsey and British folk rock band Mumford & Sons, but there was too much uncertainty given the social unrest, much of which was centred around Central Harbourfront, where the festival had been staged every year since 2016 after its relocation from West Kowloon. Then the pandemic and its restrictions hit.
The full return of the festival this year is cause for celebration; when we spoke to Sweeting in January, he told us the Clockenflap team had confirmed more than 30 local and international performers— and were expecting as many as 100. They include hip-hop legends Wu-Tang Clan; British rock icons Arctic Monkeys, who will be playing in Hong Kong for the first time; French synth-rockers Phoenix, who performed here in 2014; Japanese experimental rock legends Mono; and local singer-songwriter Tyson Yoshi.
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