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Upcoming Gigs, Early 2019
Here’s a round-up of some of the recent gig announcements you may have missed over the holiday period. Lots of good bands large and small coming to Hong Kong… Check out the events diary for details of all the local shows.
Kraftwerk return to Hong Kong with their 3-D Show on Monday, 29 April at Kitec’s Star Hall.
Kraftwerk 3-D Show
Date: 8pm, 29 April, 2019
Venue: Kitec, Star Hall
Tickets: $880, $680
Ed Sheeran
Date: 4pm, 17-18 April, 2019
Venue: Hong Kong Disneyland, Fantasy Road Outdoor Venue
Tickets: $1,288, $888 from HKTicketing
John Mayer
Date: 8pm, 8 April, 2019
Venue: HKCEC, Hall5BC
Tickets: $1,198, $898, $698 from HKTicketing
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe show-off their pop artistry at AsiaWorld Expo on the 29 March.
Pet Shop Boys – The Super Tour
Date: 8pm, 28 March, 2019
Venue: AsiaWorld Expo, Hall 10
Tickets: $1,288, $1,088, $888, $588 from HKTicketing
Inspired by Bowie’s Heroes album, Philip Glass’s Heroes Symphony is his tribute to the musician, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Philip Glass’s David Bowie
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Date: 8pm, 15-16 February, 2019
Venue: Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Auditorium
Tickets: $320, $280, $180, $120 from Urbtix
Envy
Date: 8pm, 24 February, 2019
Venue: This Town Needs (TTN)
Tickets: $480, $380 (Advance) from Ticketflap
Music from one of the most interesting shows streaming today.
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Perform the Music of Stranger Things
Date: 8pm, 8 May, 2019
Venue: MacPherson Stadium
Tickets: $550, $495, $450
Park Bo Gum – Good Day: May your everyday be a good day
Date: 8pm, 16 March, 2019
Venue: AsiaWorld Expo, Hall 10
Tickets: $1,380, $980, $680 from HKTicketing
Dean Fujioka – Born to Make History
Date: 8pm, 20 April, 2019
Venue: Kitec, Music Zone@E-Max
Tickets: $888, $688 from Cityline
Classic Christmas Eats
The temperature has finally fallen, the shops are packed high with everything Christmas related from decorations to gifts to food. New food production and flavouring techniques have allowed companies to be ever more creative with their seasonal offerings.
As usual Marks and Spencer’s has a massive range of Christmas themed food products and biscuits all nicely packaged to make nice gifts. There are new flavours of crisps: Gluten Free Pigs In Blankets; Glazed Gammon & Whisky; Gluten Free Winter Berries & Sparkling Prosecco Crisps and Port & Stilton which are novel and flavourful, but at $35/150g insanely expensive.
Where Marks & Spencer does shine is with the traditional English favourites, which we found hard to find anywhere else. There’s a range of proper Christmas puddings and a real fruit Christmas cake ($279) topped with marzipan and icing (sadly not royal icing). The fruit cake is heavy moist and delicious. While the cake is a little stingy on the marzipan, short of making your own it’s the best we found.
And last but by no means least Marks has several packages of premixed herbs and spices to create your own mulled wine. They also work very well with spirits to create some tasty homemade cocktails.
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Women’s Rugby Results – 15 December, 2018
National League 1
HKFC Fire 5-30 HK Scottish Kukris
@ HK Football Club, Kick-off: 14:50
Sandy Bay Storm 7-43 Gai Wu Fawkes
@ KG V, Kick-off: 15:00
Valley Red 34-5 Tai Po Dragons
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 18:00
Revolution SRC v Police Sirens
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 18:00
Images: Phoebe Leung
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
In 1907 The Honourable Charles Rolls and his intrepid engineer friend Sir Henry Royce together with Claude Johnson took a car they had created and built and drove it between London and Scotland 27 times (almost 15,000 miles) before it broke down. And in doing so created a legend, the Silver Ghost, and an iconic brand Rolls-Royce.
To honour the AX201, Rolls-Royce commissioned a limited edition anniversary edition, one of which arrived in Hong Kong this month and it can be yours for around $7.8million at the Queen’s Road showroom.
The bespoke edition is replete with references to that original Silver Ghost and yet loaded with modern technology and craftsmanship, much of it completed by hand, that has to be seen and touched to be appreciated.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Rolls-Royce-Silver-Ghost-Hong-Kong-Launch-14-December-2018/i-7G3Zcpc
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Images: Rolls-Royce
Opening Night Cocktails @ AIA Carnival – 14 December, 2018
To celebrate the opening of the Fifth AIA Carnival at Central Harbourfront, organisers The Great European Carnival hosted a cocktail party for sponsors, friends and supporters. This year’s carnival runs until the 17 February 2019 and features rides, games and Great Circus of Europe.
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Women’s Rugby Fixtures – 15 December, 2018
Women’s Rugby Results – 8 December, 2018
Premiership
USRC Tigers 78-7 HKFC Ice
@ Kowloon Tsai Park, Kick-off: 15:00
Valley Black 29-17 Gai Wu Falcons
@ KG V, Kick-off: 16:30
Kowloon 22-5 CWB Phoenix
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 18:00
City Sparkle 7-30 Tai Po Dragons
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00
National League 1
Tai Po Dragons v Sandy Bay Storm
@ KG V, Kick-off: 15:00
Revolution SRC 0-89 USRC Tigers
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 15:00
HKFC Fire 5-29 Gai Wu Fawkes
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 16:30
Police Sirens v Valley Red
@ KG V, Kick-off: 18:00
National League 2
Kowloon 20-0 City Twinkles
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 13:30
HK Scottish Kukris 12-65 Gai Wu Hawks
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 18:00
Tin Shui Wai Pandas 41-0 University
@ Tin Shui Wai, Kick-off: 18:00
Images: HKRU