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2nd International Hong Kong China Tattoo Convention 2014
2nd International Hong Kong China Tattoo Convention 2014
When Friday August 22 – Sunday August 24, 2014 1pm – 10pm
Where Innocentre, 72 Tatt Chee Avenue, Kowloon. (Festival Walk)
MTR – Kowloon Tong Exit C1
How much $180/day, 3 day pass $380 in advance
More info www.hktattoocon.com/
Hong Kong Rockabilly Club: Summer Rock + Roll Fund Raiser for Un Refugee Agency – 23 August, 2014 @ Grappas
Spirit of Bollywood – 16 August, 2014
One Direction “On the Road Again Tour 2015” Live in Hong Kong – 18 March, 2015
Exciting news – not, the completely dire One Direction hit Hong Kong to milk local fans for every dollar. The concert’s not until March 2015, yet the 13,500 tickets go onsale next month at prices from $3,488 to $988 adding some $20million to the concert promoters bank balance. According to Sony UK’s Chief Executive Nick Gatfield back in 2012 the 1D (as fans refer to the band) cash cow was worth GBP50million. It’s probably trebled since then as the record company and the band’s management have ruthlessly monetised social media to cash in on teenage girls and their adoring parents who can’t object to the bands clean cut, wholesome, whiter-than-white, middle class parent friendly pop: cute boys advocating puppy love.
One can only hope that unlike Rihanna’s awful lip-sync show One Direction will actually sing live, be on stage on-time (unlike Justin Bieber) and give the crowd some midnight memories worthy of the ticket price.
The 1D VIP package costs $1200 more than the top price seat – and for $3,488 you’d think it’d include a meet and greet…but no it doesn’t. For the extra $1200 you get a 1D watch (with pouch!) and a laminated card on a lanyard – whoopee fucking do!
One Direction “On the Road Again Tour 2015”
When: 18 March 2015
Where: AsiaWorld-Expo, Arena
How Much: Standing – $1,488, $1,888, Seated – $988, $1,488, $1,888, $2,288, Premium VIP Package – $3,488. Tickets onsale 10am 11 June 2014 from www.hkticketing.com
More-info: onedirectionmusic.com https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=786961167994629&saved
Hong Kong Sinfonietta: Good Music This Lunch – 12:45pm 20 May, 2014
Good Music This Lunch is a series of free chamber music concerts organised by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. The next lunchtime concert is on the 20 May at 12:45, admission is free and ‘you’re welcome to enjoy your lunch while listening to good music’.
Programme
Perry Goldstein : Mischief
Saxophone: Timothy Sun, Bass Clarinet: Chen Chiu-yuan
John W McMahan: Trio con Brio
Percussion: Chau Chin-tung, Rieko Koyama, Mandy Lo
Chau Chin-tung: Touch Wood
Percussion: Chau Chin-tung, Mandy Lo, Leung Ching-kit Jason, Chan Wai-hong
Guo Wen-jing: Drama, Trio for 3 Pairs of Cymbals & Players’ Voices, Op 23: I & VI
Percussion: Chau Chin-tung, Leung Ching-kit Jason, Chan Wai-hong
Nebojša Jovan Živković: Trio per Uno, Op 27
Percussion: Chau Chin-tung, Rieko Koyama, Mandy Lo*
Good Music This Lunch
Hong Kong Sinfonietta
When: 12:45pm 20 may, 2014
Where: HK City Hall Foyer
How Much: Free
More info: www.hksl.org
Je Dance Toujours – 8pm, 30 April, 2-3 May 2014
A winter’s night in 1942, a young woman bends over a typewriter waiting for a fellow resistance fighter, her name is Claire. She doesn’t utter a word. The man she is waiting for has not come, as he usually does every evening, to dictate to her his clandestine messages. She should go, leave the flat which may already be surrounded. But Claire stays. She knows it’s almost time. She writes the woman she will not be, the life she would have loved to tell, one day…
The HK Theatre Association Ltd present a one-woman poetic stage play staring Emilie Guillot on the French Resistance with physical theatre, performed in French with English subtitles.
Je Dance Toujours
When: 8pm, 30 April, 2-3 May 2014
Where: Auditorium French International School, 34 Price Road Jardine’s Lookout, HonKong
How much: $250, $220 (students)
More info: www.hkta.org.hk
Mei Yoo Foo @ City Hall, Concert Hall – 8pm, 9 April, 2014
Mei Yoo Foo
When: 8pm, 9 April, 2014
Where: City Hall, Concert Hall
How Much: $480, $280, $80 from URBTIX
More info:
Programme:
Debussy – Estampes
Sorabji – Pastiche on the Hindu Merchant’s Song from ‘Sadko’ by Rimsky-Korsakov
Tchaikovsky/Pletnev – Concert Suite from Nutcracker
Rachmaninov – Variations on a Theme by Corelli
Glinka – (transcription by Balakirev) L’Alouette (The Lark)
Balakirev – Islamey