‘The Magic Whip: Made in Hong Kong’ is a 30-minute film about the making of Blur’s new album. Featuring interviews and studio footage shot by the band it, unintentionally perhaps, offers an interesting insight into how creative non-HongKongers see our home town.
Category: June
Travel to Hong Kong With Blur – A Comic by KongKee
Blur and local comic artist KongKee worked together to create Travel to Hong Kong With Blur. The comic book, set in a futuristic Hong Kong, is inspired by the band’s new album, The Magic Whip – much of which was written locally when the band toured here in 2013.
Watch KongKee – an artist with the studio Penguin Lab – discusses the making of the comic book and its relationship to his longtime home in this youtube video.
Although Blur and KongKee have never met in person (the band contacted him after reading one of his previous comic’s, Pandaman), the artist explains in the video that the album itself was all he needed: “Every time I listened to The Magic Whip, it all became so clear to me. It’s magical how their music brought me many vivid visions, and I just let them slip out through my pens — the feeling of Blur’s music, the feeling of Hong Kong.”
Travel to Hong Kong With Blur – is available on the Blur website http://shop.blur.co.uk from 12 June priced GBP10
China’s Racist Attack on Hong Kong
This is the poster for China vs Hong Kong (qualification rounds for Russia 2018) from China’s FIFA:
“Don’t underestimate any opponents. People of this team (Hong Kong) have black skin, yellow skin and white skin. Facing a team with ‘SO MANY LAYERS’, we must strengthen our defence a bit!”
The poster emphasises that the Hong Kong team has black, yellow and white skins, “layers” means races and classes.
The HK Football Associations’s rebuttal to China’s racist ad:
“Don’t let others look down on us! Our team has black, yellow, and white skin, but all of us are here to represent Hong Kong. All HKers should support us!”
The hashtag on the bottom reads “Support our own”.
The HKFA refuses to use the “official” name of “Chinese Hong Kong”.
Poster Translation: Real Hong Kong News
Grand Opening @ Townhouse – 5 June 2015
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Townhouse celebrated it’s opening with a party on the 5 June, 2015
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Burger Joys – Opening Day
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Burger Joys – Opening Day, 5 June 2015
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26 Anniversary Tiananmen Square Vigil @ Victoria Park – 4 June, 2105
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Over 100,000 people gathered in Victoria Park to remember those murdered by Chinese troops in Beijing 26 years ago.
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Grand Opening Jean Louis David – 3 June, 2015
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The Grand Opening of Jean Louis David’s Asia flagship store in Central – 3 June, 2015
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Radio Beijing Broadcast – 3 June, 1989
https://soundcloud.com/james-t-griffiths/radio-beijing-broadcast-june-3
A rare broadcast recorded by G. Jack Urso working the overnight shift at WQBK-1300 AM on 3 June, 1989. It is dignified and speaks for itself. It is also remarkable because it came from China’s official radio outlet, Radio Beijing the precursor to what is now China Radio International.
According to Urso the announcer’s name is Yuan Neng and he was transferred from his job for broadcasting the report. The script was by Wu Xiaoyong, Deputy Director of the English Language Service at Radio Beijing. His father, Wu Xueqian, at the time was a Senior Council Vice-President. According to reports, Wu was put under house arrest for two to three years and later moved to Hong Kong.
Transcript: This is Radio Beijing. Please remember June the third, 1989. The most tragic event happened in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
Thousands of people, most of them innocent civilians, were killed by fully armed soldiers when they forced their way into the city. Among the killed are our colleagues at Radio Beijing.
The soldiers were riding on armored vehicles and used machine guns against thousands of local residents and students who tried to block their way. When the army convoys made a breakthrough, soldiers continued to spray their bullets indiscriminately at crowds in the street.
Eyewitnesses say some armored vehicles even crushed foot soldiers who hesitated in front of the resisting civilians.
Radio Beijing English Department deeply mourns those died in the tragic incident and appeals to all its listeners to join our protest for the gross violation of human rights and the most barbarous suppression of the people.
Because of this abnormal situation here in Beijing, there is no other news we could bring you. We sincerely ask for your understanding and thank you for joining us at this most tragic moment.
Here’s the story of how the broadcast survived http://www.aeolus13umbra.com/2012/05/lost-voice-of-radio-beijing.html