Hong Kong's pop-up parties and underground events shaking up city's nightlife scene
It's a rave new world as spontaneous outdoor events shake up the party scene
A proliferation of spontaneous, outdoor pop-up parties and events has transformed Hong Kong's party scene during the past year.
For a city with a reputation for paralysing red tape and corporate saturation, these independently run, off-the-grid events are shaking up our city's nightlife in a serious way. It may surprise you that Hong Kong is something of an impromptu partier's dream with no regulations limiting events held in public spaces as long as there are no noise complaints.
Part of what makes these events so exciting is that they are secret and often come together at the last minute. Don't expect 48 Hours to draw you a map, but we can show you who to follow and what to do to get your finger on the pulse of Hong Kong's hottest pop-up events.
Heavy
Heavy is probably Hong Kong's most ragtag crew putting on pop-up parties, but they are also the most true to the pop-up party ethos. Heavy is an amorphous, ever-expanding crew of drum 'n' bass promoters with a DIY sound system that has gained something of a reputation among Hong Kong's DJs: assembled over years from mismatched second-hand components scrounged from the electronics markets in Sham Shui Po.
