Rock-n-it

Dad is gone but not before making a notable television appearance while he waited in line to meet Hong Kong's last governor, Chris Patten. He appeared on Jade news here and even all the way back home in Canada. Now dad's happily a television star because he's so gosh darn cute.

This weekend has been gruelling and I think I'm coming down with something fluish. Still, I'm heading back to Rockit this afternoon. I wrote a long feature about Hong Kong's only music festival that appeared in yesterday's Weekend magazine. It's one of the things I'm prouder of, mainly because it was my idea and I'm fairly content with its result. I saw some really decent bands yesterday including home grown Qiu Hong, whose lead singer was engaging and political -- not a common thing in the general Hong Kong music scene. Unfortunately, Saturday's headline Brian Jonestown Massacre couldn't make it to the show and was replaced by the entertaining Princess Superstar.

Will report more later.

Comments

[brian]

haha "shotgun she-ras."

great article.

xoxo

[Jose Harnett]

I know it's kind of late to post, as Rockit was ages ago (maybe that's a good thing, and the "who gets to play" backbiting is over), but I kept reading the same coverage over and over and feel I should comment. It was a great festival, and I really hope that it continues but I don't know why Nimal bothers to try placate people with the auditions. I know it isn't quite the same scale, but do you think Glasto auditions? Or Reading? It's great that local bands are given that opportunity, but people should remember playing at Rockit is not a democratically elected position. It is Nimals festival, and he can invite whoever he bloody well likes. Don't like it? Want to see other bands up there? Get off your ass and start your own festival!