Advance tickets for No 1 Hong Kong music festival on sale; Clockenflap organisers offer full refunds if 2021 event is cancelled

Sales of the advance ‘blind bird’ tickets – so called because festivalgoers buy them before the line-up is announced – will run until March 16

Prices start at US$90 for single-day tickets; if the festival goes ahead in November, it will be its first staging in three years

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Tickets to Clockenflap 2021 are now on sale. The 2019 and 2020 instalments were cancelled because of anti-government protests and the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Kitmin Lee

Published: 12:55pm, 4 Mar 2021Updated: 12:55pm, 4 Mar 2021

Tickets to the 2021 edition of Hong Kong’s biggest annual music festival went on sale on March 3. It’s a vote of confidence that the city will have the coronavirus pandemic under control by November.

The 13th edition of the Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival is expected to take place on the Central Harbourfront Events Space, on Hong Kong Island, from November 26-28.

The organisers are aiming to return after a three-year absence – Clockenflap was last held in 2018, with the 2019 and 2020 instalments cancelled because of the city’s anti-government protests and the coronavirus outbreak respectively.

Sales of the advance “blind bird” tickets – festivalgoers buy tickets before the line-up is announced – will continue until March 16. Prices range from HK$698 (US$90) to HK$758 for single-day tickets, to HK$1,188 for a three-day pass. Organisers say full refunds will be offered if the festival is cancelled.

Sunny Chan of Supper Moment at Clockenflap in 2017. Photo: James Wendlinger

Mike Hill, the CEO of Clockenflap organiser Magnetic Asia, said his team was “seeing good indications that by [November] we will have the right circumstances to allow a proper Clockenflap. What shape this will take will unfold as the year progresses, but it has to the kind of Clockenflap that we know and love.

Advance tickets for No 1 Hong Kong music festival on sale; Clockenflap organisers offer full refunds if 2021 event is cancelled

Sales of the advance ‘blind bird’ tickets – so called because festivalgoers buy them before the line-up is announced – will run until March 16 Prices start at US$90 for single-day tickets; if the festival goes ahead in November, it will be its first staging in three years

Sales of the advance ‘blind bird’ tickets – so called because festivalgoers buy them before the line-up is announced – will run until March 16

Prices start at US$90 for single-day tickets; if the festival goes ahead in November, it will be its first staging in three years