Clockenflap, Hong Kong’s biggest international outdoor music and arts festival, has recently announced the news that fans have been waiting to hear: it is returning in 2023 after a three-year hiatus. The event has been confirmed to take place at the Central Harbourfront from 3-5 March.
The March 2023 event will mark the 12th edition of Clockenflap, and the festival’s return will be a reason to celebrate for lovers of live music and arts in Hong Kong and across the region. Launched at Cyberport in 2008, before moving to the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade in 2011 and then Central Harbourfront in 2016, Clockenflap has forged an unparalleled reputation for creating a friendly, fun and cutting-edge festival experience, and its absence has been keenly felt by music fans in the city over the past four years.
Topping the bill as the Friday night headliners are British rock icons Arctic Monkeys, who will play in Hong Kong for the first time fresh from the release of their seventh studio album, The Car. Alex Turner & Co. will be joined on Friday by French synth-rockers Phoenix, who return to the city for the first time since 2014, and Hong Kong hip-hop don YoungQueenz.
Saturday will welcome French multi-instrumentalist FKJ and Norwegian folk-pop duo Kings of Convenience to the stage, while Sunday will be lit up by Canadian-Japanese singer-songwriter Milet, German electronic supergroup Moderat (Modeselektor and Apparat combined), and Japanese experimental rock legends MONO.
Other highlights include Canadian indie darlings Men I Trust (Fri), Thai favourites Three Man Down (Sun) and HYBS (Sat), Japanese indie-rockers Hitsujibungaku (Sat), British jazz quintet Ezra Collective (Sun), Hong Kong rapper Tyson Yoshi (Sat), American indie soul project Ginger Root (Sat), and hotly-tipped Taiwanese singer- songwriter LÜCY (Sat).
In all, 30 acts have been revealed in the first wave announcement, with many more still to come, including the Saturday and Sunday headliners.
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闊別三年，Clockenflap 作為深受觀眾愛戴的盛大音樂文化藝術活動，鐵定於2023年3月3日(週五)至3月5日(週日)，於中環海濱舉行。
三年不是一段短暫的時間，當中團隊面對的挑戰並非三言兩語所能盡訴，而期間，音樂節亦曾經有過可以以各種大受限制的形式回歸的機會，可是回想細味以往Clockenflap 音樂節，大家最惦念的是什麼？可能是終於可以親身參與心儀已久的國際級傳奇音樂人現場表演的血脈沸騰；可能是在戶外的環境裡，隨心隨意地遊走不同舞台之間的自由愜意；可能是遇見不同人，體驗不同文化和生活方式的無盡驚喜；可能是在繽紛多元的環境中，和三兩知己及一家大細飲食暢談的滿足笑容 –– 這一切一切都是 Clockenflap 主辦單位不能割捨的重要組成部分。而讓觀眾可以徜徉在 Clockenflap 音樂及藝術節精心打造，獨一無二的小宇宙中裡發掘不同可能，正正是 Clockenflap 團隊舉辦活動最大的動力。
因此即便面對巨大的挑戰，Clockenflap 團隊仍然努力堅持，養精蓄銳並終於在今天宣布隆重歸來，令人振奮的消息。2023年3月舉辦的音樂節，將包含香港音樂愛好者所熟悉和喜愛的Clockenflap 完整世界級音樂節體驗 ：一系列必看的國際、亞洲及本地音樂單位表演；具有多個舞台的戶外環境；精心規劃安排的現場餐飲體驗及可於場內隨意走動的不設劃位自由站立安排， 觀眾在音樂節其間，可以輕鬆地穿梭於不同的舞台及節目之間。
2023年3月為Clockenflap音樂及藝術節第12屆活動，勢必讓香港及附近地區翹首以望的音樂及藝術愛好者興奮萬分。Clockenflap於2008年在數碼港首次舉辦，2011年移師至西九龍海濱長廊，及後於2016年又遷往中環海濱舉行。 Clockenflap以創造友好、奇趣、多元和前衛的音樂節體驗而享譽國際。過去三年未能舉辦，不少樂迷、音樂人及業界人士均紛紛表示惋惜及向主辦單位表達對音樂節的想念。
合共30個精彩表演單位已於本輪公佈揭盅，還有更多重量級名字即將陸續登場，當中包括星期六日的重頭壓軸單位，樂迷務必密切留意。
Source and Photo: Clockenflap
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