Jarvis Cocker joins strong line-up for Hong Kong’s Clockenflap festival
Suchmos from Japan will also play Clockenflap, adding to the strong Asian contingent at November’s three-day festival, where Interpol, David Byrne and Khalid are the headline acts
The full line-up for the 2018 edition of Hong Kong’s premier music festival has been announced after a long wait, with ex-Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker the main addition to a schedule that already included rising US singer-songwriter Khalid and the Talking Heads’ David Byrne.
Other new names on this year’s Clockenflap schedule are US ambient pop act Cigarettes After Sex and Japanese jazz-rock band Suchmos, plus a DJ set by cult Scottish author Irvine Welsh.
Clockenflap 2018 line-up led by David Byrne, Interpol, Khalid
Suchmos join a particularly strong Asian line-up for this year’s Clockenflap, gaining a slot alongside Cornelius (often described as the “Japanese Beck”) and a number of high-profile Taiwanese acts: Sodagreen lead singer Wu Tsing-fong, and alternative songstresses Anpu (previously known as Deserts Xuan) and Zooey Wonder.
The 11th edition of Clockenflap, Hong Kong’s biggest annual music festival, will take place from November 9-11 at the Central Harbourfront event space beside Victoria Harbour.
Full of swagger and brandishing a perceptive wit, Cocker was one of the main faces of 1990s Britpop, and his band Pulp’s crossover hit Common People became one of the anthems of the movement. Cocker has this year been performing under the name Jarv Is, and his new solo show will be coming to Clockenflap 2018 after a run of UK concerts.
Justin Sweeting, music director of Clockenflap organiser Magnetic Asia, describes Cocker as “one of the most cherished and beloved of Britain’s modern-day music heroes”.