The Beach Boys live @ Hong Kong Sevens!
In a first for the Hong Kong Sevens, Rock & Roll hall of fame artists the Beach Boys will entertain the fans with a short set on-event. The Beach Boys will perform immediately following the March Past on Saturday, March 23 at 14.30 on a temporary stage set-up along the North Stand.
Also performing live as part of the opening ceremony will be the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir along with the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir.
Hong Kong Sevens – 22-24, March 2013
Hong Kong Stadium
www.hksevens.com
The Beach Boys live @ Hong Kong Sevens! – 23 March 2013
Kraftwerk 3-D vision @ Star Hall, KITEC – 4 May, 2013
The enigma that is Kraftwerk have provided a soundtrack to the computer world for over 40 years. More theatre than concert, the synchronized visual projections, lights and robotics accentuate Kraftwerk’s antiseptic yet compelling melodies and hypnotic lyrics – which reveal a deadpan humor and an appreciation of the absurd.
Kraftwerk 3-D Concert in Hong Kong
8pm, 4 May, 2013
Star Hall, KITEC
Tickets: $780 (Standing), $580 (Seated)
1 pair of complimentary 3-D glasses per ticket
Tel: 31-288-288 www.hkticketing.com
Blur @ AsiaWorld Arena – 8pm, 6 May 2013
The epitome of Cool Britannia, Britpop legends Blur haven’t released a new album since reforming for a series of concerts in 2009, but such is the strength of their discography that’s been largely irrelevant as the band have wowed their fans across the globe at gigs and festivals. Formed in London in 1988 as Seymour, the group consists of singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/singer Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur’s debut album Leisure (1991) incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing. Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar pop groups such as The Kinks, The Beatles and XTC, Blur released Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995). As a result, the band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and achieved global popularity, aided by a chart battle with rival band Oasis in 1995 dubbed “The Battle of Britpop”. In recording their follow-up, Blur (1997), the band underwent another reinvention, showing influence from the lo-fi style of American indie rock groups. “Song 2”, one of the album’s singles, brought Blur mainstream success in the United States. Their next album, 13 (1999) saw the band members experimenting with electronic and gospel music, and featured more personal lyrics from Albarn. In May 2002, Coxon left Blur during the recording of their seventh album Think Tank (2003). Containing electronic sounds and more minimal guitar work, the album was marked by Albarn’s growing interest in hip hop and African music. After a 2003 tour without Coxon, Blur did no studio work or touring as a band, as members engaged in other projects
The Hong Kong concert, part of Blur’s 2013 World Tour is currently the only non-festival gig announced by the band and tickets go on sale on 25 February
Blur @ AsiaWorld Arena – 8pm, 6 May 2013
Tickets: HK$880, $680 (standing and seated) and $480 (seated only) from www.hkticketing.com
Filastine + Pasha @ Hidden Agenda – 8:30pm, 24 February 2013
Hidden Agenda celebrates its 4th Anniversary with a series of concerts, the first of which features Filastine supported by Pasha.
Grey Filastine is an audio-visual artist born in Los Angeles, based in Barcelona, and often nomadic. He composes a dense transnational bass music that collides the lowest frequencies of dubstep with the highest-level beat science, acoustic strings, voices, and lofi street noises. The results are “Awesome and delicate… hybrids so fluent they defy classification.” -Pitchfork.
Filastine + Pasha @ Hidden Agenda – 8:30pm, 24 February 2013
8:30pm, 24 February 2013
牛頭角大業街15-17號永富工業大廈2樓A室
2A, Wing Fu Industrial Bldg, 15-17 Tai Yip Street, Kwun Tong
Tel: 9170 6073 (Kimi)
Tickets: $180(Advance), $200(Door) from www.ticketflap.com
We Shot The Moon @ Hidden Agenda – 8:30pm, 5th March 2013
Hidden Agenda celebrates its 4th Anniversary with a series of concerts, pop rock band We Shot the Moon, formerly known as The Honor Roll, hail from San Diego, California and comprise Jonathan Jones the singer of Waking Ashland, lead guitarist Paul Wheatley, drummer Ben Hilzinger, bassist Andy Bruno, and Michael Grimm. WSTM mix sound effects with electronic and traditional rock instruments and have performed over 400 concerts in the last two years – to hear what they’re all about give Hidden Agenda a call for the ticket details.
8:30pm, 6 March 2013
牛頭角大業街15-17號永富工業大廈2樓A室
2A, Wing Fu Industrial Bldg, 15-17 Tai Yip Street, Kwun Tong
Tel: 9170 6073 (Kimi)
Tickets: details coming soon
How To Dress Well @ Hidden Agenda – 8:30pm, 6 March 2013
Hidden Agenda celebrates its 4th Anniversary with a series of concerts, the second of which features How to Dress Well supported by Snowblind.
How To Dress Well is the stage name of songwriter and producer Tom Krell. Krellʼs burgeoning career began in 2009 when, having just moved from Brooklyn to Berlin, his songs began to emerge online via a string of free, digital EPs posted in anonymity on his blog. Combining a gorgeous falsetto with fractured R&B-influenced beats, a subtly devastating melody and elements of noise, sound collage and avant-garde composition, Krellʼs debut album Love Remains offered a beautiful window into a startlingly realised artistic imagination. Its conceptual strength and emotional resonance ensured Love Remains garnered critical acclaim and tracks such as “Ready For The World” saw Krell accredited with having given birth to a new, narcotized strain of R&B that has since spawned a host of imitators.
Krell states that his second release Total Loss, which expands the moodiness and layers of swarming voices of his debut, as “an opening-up”, describing it as an “album about sharing”, “Iʼm trying to use this sharing to orient my life— call it true hope, or love.”
How To Dress Well + Snowblind @ Hidden Agenda
8:30pm, 6 March 2013
牛頭角大業街15-17號永富工業大廈2樓A室
2A, Wing Fu Industrial Bldg, 15-17 Tai Yip Street, Kwun Tong
Tel: 9170 6073 (Kimi)
Tickets: $200(Advance), $250(Door) from www.ticketflap.com
How To Dress Well @ Hidden Agenda – 8:30pm, 6 March 2013
Grimes + Ami Dang @ KITEC – 7.30pm, 18 March 2013 Claire Boucher aka Grimes cannot read music and has no understanding of music theory or notation. This results in songs that are particularly unique, strangely beautiful, sometimes scary, frequently melancholic and catchy as hell.
Grimes is weird pop influenced by styles such as (to name a few) R&B, Industrial, goth, hip hop and Western medieval organum. She is noted for simple but strong percussion, vocal virtuosity, and addictive melodies. Despite having little acquaintance with music before the age of 18, Boucher (22) has overcome this barrier and used it to her advantage, exploding onto the music scene with a sound that is that is far different from that of her peers, and extremely broad in it’s references (Mariah Carey, Salem, Cocteau Twins, Gang Gang Dance, The Smiths, Prince). And yet, while all Grimes songs are different and genre-bending, there is a strong sound that is fully her own, characterized primarily by her chameleon-like voice. The Montreal native will be coming to Hong Kong for an unforgettable night at KITEC’s MusicZone on March 18th.
Ticket Details:
Grimes + Ami Dang @ KITEC MusicZone
7.30pm, 18 March 2013
Tickets: $310 advance from www.ticketflap.com
Ra Ra Riot + Dirty Projectors @ Grappas – 29 January 2013
A sell-out crowd sang, danced and roared its appreciation as Ra Ra Riot and Dirty Projectors rocked “a pizza restaurant in Hong Kong”.
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