Clockenflap, Hong Kong’s biggest music festival, cancelled in 2021 – the third year in a row – with organisers blaming coronavirus restrictions

For the third year in a row the Clockenflap Music & Arts Festival is not happening in Hong Kong. Ticket holders can keep their tickets for 2022 or get a refund

In a notice posted on booking platform Ticketflap, organisers cite the restrictions on large-scale outdoor events and on international travel for cancellation

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Fans attend the Clockenflap music festival on the Central harbourfront in Hong Kong in 2017. The 2021 festival has been cancelled because of restrictions on holding outdoor events and on travel to Hong Kong, organisers say. Photo: Kitmin Lee for Clockenflap

Published: 8:12pm, 29 Sep 2021

Hong Kong’s biggest annual music and arts festival, Clockenflap has been cancelled because of “recently tightened” coronavirus restrictions, organisers say.

This is the third year running that event, which was due to take place between November 26 and 28, has been pulled.

In 2020 Clockenflap was axed because of the pandemic; it was also halted in 2019 because of the anti-government protests.

Clockenflap organisers said they had hoped until recently to host the event at Central Harbourfront, but ongoing restrictions on international travel and the recently tightened rules and regulations on running large-scale outdoor events in Hong Kong had made it impossible.

British singer Jarvis Cocker performs during the 2018 Clockenflap festival. Photo: Chris Lusher for Clockenflap.

People arriving in Hong Kong from most countries have to undergo 21 days’ hotel quarantine.