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Clockenflap returns after a four-year hiatus with local and international names, as it continues its mission to be the best city-based festival in the world

By Zabrina Lo

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,…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2023

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