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nightlife Edited by Andrea Lo andrea.lo@hkmagmedia.com Twitter: @andreas_lo Open Bar Amazake The buzz: Amazake sits in the same spot where fancy robatayaki joint Masu used to be, sandwiched between three of Hong Kong’s biggest clubs: Play, Levels, and what used to be Billion and is now Dizzi. Whereas Masu seemed to hide in the shadows with its exclusivity, Amazake is bright and pumping with energy, a place for large groups to pre-game before hitting the clubs next door. The décor: From Amazake’s warm and relaxed red-and-wood color scheme to its whimsical sumo wrestler motif, it’s evident you’re here to hk picks have fun. The bar itself is a spacious game room with plenty of private booths and tables for large groups. Late at night, the floor is transformed into a space for beer pong, flip cup and an assortment of drinking games. Can’t name all the MTR stations in quick succession? Drink up. The drinks: While you try out each diversion from their drinking game handbook (available upon request), the “punishments” (read: cocktails) you can choose are decidedly classy—are definitely a graduation from pounding boozy jello syringes in the street. Try the pleasantly spicy Bloody Samara ($110), a Japanese take on the Bloody Mary: Okinawan distilled rice liquor (read: strong as hell) awamori, plus Japanese herbs and spices. Looking for a refreshing drink to beat the heat? The Shiso Tart ($110) uses Shiso leaf as its centerpiece for a lightly herby and cooling concoction with a sake base. The Amazake ($130) is a sweet but deadly tipple, made with a mix of the best Japanese liquors including the bar’s namesake, amazake—a light, fermented rice wine—plus sake, shochu, umeshu plum wine and awamori. For the more discerning, Amazake has an ambitious list of whiskys from small distilleries all over Japan and Scotland, as well as a great range of sakes served from glass drip dispensers. Why you’ll be back: It’s hard to find a place that will take care of your entire night, from pre-game down to the wee hours when all you want to do is stuff your face with food. From Thursdays to Saturdays, it’s open until 3am, so hit up Amazake and try the killer late night menu of ramen bowls, fried chicken, and pork gyozas—and maybe just another cocktail or three. Evelyn Lok G/F, On Hing Building, 1 On Hing Terrace, Central, 2537-7787,www.amazake.hk. Gigs Noise.to.Signal 0.25—Glitch.Pop. Electronic music fans, come see Japanese singer-songwriter Unii perform at this creatively named gig. Also featuring performances by local musician Alok and producer Ariel. It’s pay what you want at the door, but if you’re a dick about it then the whole bar will know, and they will call your mother and tell her how disappointing you are. Aug 17, 8:30pm. Multimedia Theatre, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 135 Junction Rd., Kowloon City, 2180-9595. Free entry (pay what you want). The Rock Army Vol. XIV Make like a Punk shepherd and rock out with your flock out at this mid-week gig at the Wanch. The lineup is rockers Never N and heavy metal bands Killer Beez, Natal and Zeitgeist. Aug 20, 9:30pm. The Wanch, 54 Jaffe Rd., Wan Chai, 2586-1621. Free. Iguband—Nobody Cares About What I Care About Taiwanese indie rock four-piece Iguband teams up with local indie bands New Youth Barbershop and Say You Care for this gig. As you might have guessed from the show’s title, Iguband is best at gloomy songs, including its 2012 track, “Forgive That I Don’t Understand Your Melancholy.” Deep. Aug 22, 8pm. Hidden Agenda, Unit 2A, Wing Fu Industrial Building, 15-17 Tai Yip St., Ngau Tau Kok. $220 from www.ticketflap.com. Agnès b. Rue de Marseille Live Fashion brand Agnès b. is introducing Rue De Marseille Live, a series of gigs set up to encourage the local indie music scene. On August 23, catch boyfriend-and-girlfriend duo Lil’ Ashes and electronic DJ twosome Gravity Alterstra. Best of all, the gigs are free. Aug 23, 4pm; Sep 27, 4pm. Agnès B. Rue De Marseille, Shop G26-G28, K11, 18 Hanoi Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 3122-4282. Free. Elephant Gym Math-rockers Elephant Gym come from Kaohsiung, and are known for their clear, bassdriven sounds. It consists of siblings Tell and Tif, whose first foray into music began with classical lessons from their mom. They met third member Tu in high school at an extra-curricular music club, and decided to form the band. There’s an inspiring movie in this… Aug 15, 8pm. Hidden Agenda, Unit 2A, Wing Fu Industrial Building, 15-17 Tai Yip St., Ngau Tau Kok. $190 from www. whitenoiserecords.org; $230 at the door. Nightlife Events Poolzilla Vol. 2 Lantau pool party Poolzilla’s second edition is set to be held this month. There’ll be live music, although you have to pay for food and drink separately. Location is released upon ticket purchase. It’s like a junk, except you’re not stuck. Bring your swimsuit (obvs). Aug 16, 11am. $150 in advance; email info@gweiloconcepts. com. !!! (Chk Chk Chk) US band !!!, or Chk Chk Chk, has been around the block. Formed in 1996, the band plays a mishmash of dance punk, post-punk and indie rock. If you missed them at Clockenflap two years ago, now’s your chance to see them live. How do you tell people who you’re seeing, though? They might just think you’re really excited about !!! Aug 21, 8:30pm. Musiczone, KITEC, 1 Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay. $420 from www.cityline.com; $500 at the door. Clubs Kartell Producer Kartell is a major force in the French house music movement. He spins funky house tracks as well as groovy, dance-friendly tunes. And after all, no one can groove like Les Français. Aug 15, 10pm. Kee Club, 6/F, 32 Wellington St., Central, 2810-9000. $200 from www.kartell-keeclub.eventbrite.hk; $300 at the door. Revelicious Independence Nite DJ Shadow—sorry, the one from Dubai, not the founder of DJ hip hop as we know it—joins forces with Hongkonger Raahil to spin. But let’s be honest: once you learn he’s not the actual DJ Shadow, do you care any more? Aug 16, 10pm. Woobar, W Hotel, 1 Austin Rd. West, West Kowloon, 3717-2222. $380 at the door. Mos Def Although he now goes by Yasiin Bey, the legendary rapper best known as Mos Def is hitting up Volar. With a music career that spans two decades, you can bet he’ll perform a good tune or two—maybe even 1999’s “Ms. Fat Booty” (“Ass so fat that you can see it from the front”). We wish. Aug 21, 11pm. Volar, B/F, 38-44 D’Aguilar St., Central, 2810-1510. $300 before 12:30am; $350 thereafter, both include two drinks. Stephane K DJ Stephane K specializes in remixing hits. Don’t they all. Aug 22, 10pm. Volar, B/F, 38-44 D’Aguilar St., Central, 2810-1510. $150 from stephanek. ticketflap.com; $250 at the door before 12:30am and $350 thereafter. Endless Summer Series Eight bands will play two stages at the Endless Summer Festival. They’re all favorites in the local indie music scene, such as punk rockers Dr. Eggs (pictured), Canto acoustic trio New Youth Barbershop, 10-piece ska and reggae group extraordinaire The Red Stripes, and electro-pop and alt-rock band Ni.Ne.Mo. Aug 15, 9pm. Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd., Central, 2525-1032. $220 at the door. Ted Lo Drum Series Jazz maestro Ted Lo takes the stage, showcasing original tunes and all dat jazz alongside Wilson Lam on guitar, Ricky Wong on keys, and bassist Wong Tak-chung. And yes, he will be on drums. Aug 16, 11pm. Backstage Live, 1/F, Somptueux Central, 52-54 Wellington St., Central, 2167-8985. $150 at the door, including a drink. Zpecial Formed in 2009, Zpecial boasts members who were protégés of local bands ToNick and Kolor. Zee the indie zuperztars at an afternoon show at Full Cup zis zunday. Aug 17, 3pm. Full Cup Café, 3-7/F, Hanway Commercial Centre, 36 Dundas St., Mong Kok, 2771-7775. $120 at the door, including a drink. Spirit of Bollywood: India Independence Day Party Independence day parties are always awesome, regardless of the country involved. Hit up Aqua Spirit for India Independence Day, where Bollywood DJ-producer Angel will spin. Aug 16, 10:30pm. Aqua Spirit, 29/F-30/F, One Peking Road, 1 Peking Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 3427-2288. $200 from spiritofbollywood.eventbrite.hk. Mixologist Angus Zhou at Room One Angus Zhou is behind Taipei speakeasy bar Alchemy. The award-winning mixologist will be at The Mira’s lounge bar Room One for four nights, shaking up boozy classics as well as creations with a twist. Best to book if you want a seat at the bar to watch Zhou in action. Aug 19-22, 9pm. Room One, G/F, The Mira Hong Kong, 118 Nathan Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 2315-5888. Free entry. 34 HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, august 15, 2014
macau Edited by Charley Mulliner charlotte.mulliner@ hkmagmedia.com THE STRAIGHT MAN with Yalun Tu hk picks Life Intern I wrote a similar column two years ago, but it’s time again. My life’s spinning out of control. I need a new life intern. Who is a life intern? You, maybe! Oh wait—what is a life intern? That’s what you want to know. Well, a life intern is a person who sorts out the problems in my life in exchange for drinks and social cred (I’m from the streets, yo 1 ). I have a lot of issues to deal with and they’re pretty serious: my Nespresso machine breaks down fairly regularly, I often forget to put party invitations in my calendar (#humblebrag), and my iTunes playlist is super out-of-date. 2 And I forget things. I run into someone at a club and for the life of me cannot remember this person. Did we play basketball together? Did I see you at the Rihanna concert? Did we date for three years and have a horrible breakup? A life intern can sort this stuff out. As a life intern you’ll have the advantage of being like a life coach, except you’re actually useful. I imagine you as a plucky young student or an unemployed young person who’s interested in learning the rigors of what it takes to be an HK Magazine writer. Drinking, mostly, but also going to the gym and then telling everybody that you went to the gym over and over and over until they stop hanging out with you. Then you’ll go to the gym because you have no friends any more, in the hopes of making new gym friends (Hey, Maggie! Silas!). Then you’ll go out and tell your gym friends how awesome it was going out, until they stop being your friends and you make going out friends. And the cycle repeats. Newcomers to the island are preferred life intern candidates because you haven’t been corrupted by Hong Kong living and the secret that nobody here does anything ever. Yes, we sit in the office and type furiously, but the moment we’re out we become petulant children who can’t walk farther than 12-15 feet (“Come on, taxi!”). I forgot how to cook and clean within four hours of moving here. Imagine what it’s like eight years later. You might have to drag me out of Feather Boa at 1am while I sing you pop songs from the 80s. Yes, this and more, you’ll learn by being my unpaid life intern for three months. You might wonder why you’d want to do this job. Why willingly sign up to work for a highfunctioning alcoholic who writes self-indulgent articles about himself? To that I say: you don’t have to work for that guy; work for me. 3 I’ll take you to the movies and exclusive clubs and sailing and to a trampoline park where we’ll have our customary “bouncing meeting.” That’s not sexual innuendo; we actually will jump up and down on a large trampoline and talk about work responsibilities. Still interested? Great, me too. Send a resume and cover letter to a job you actually want. You can just write me an email explaining why you’d want to be my life intern at yalun.tu@gmail.com. Oh, the places we’ll see! Oh, the people we’ll meet! I look forward to this new chapter in our lives and all the cool people we’ll follow on Twitter, the cool YouTube videos we’ll watch, and the cool neighbors we’ll spy on using my cool high-powered binoculars. 1 Of an upper-middle-class neighborhood. 2 It’s just Drake’s “The Motto” on repeat. 3 Yes! Humor in the workplace = management! Yalun Tu is a columnist for HK Magazine. You can reach him at yalun.tu@gmail.com or @yaluntu on Twitter. W Hong Kong Heat Wave Summer Series 2014 The last of W’s sexy pool parties. The hardpartying crowd can move on to Woobar afterwards. Aug 30, 8pm. W Hotel, 1 Austin Rd. West, West Kowloon, 3717-2222. $350 in advance or $400 at the door, including a drink poolside and a drink at the after-party; $950 in advance or $1,000 at the door for “WIP” tickets, including free-flow drinks and champagne until 1am. Tickets from tiny.cc/hk-whotel. Hugs and kisses, Your (future) employer, Yalun Kitty Carmichael Hit up The Pen’s super-swanky Salon de Ning to see Kitty Carmichael do her thing. Kitty and her band play jazz and soul with a modern twist, five nights a week until the end of August. What’s more, there’s also a new craft beer promo in place, featuring US, Spanish and Swedish brews. Skol! (Ska-bop-dee-wopwoo.) Kitty Carmichael performs on Tue-Thu, 9:30pm-12:30am; Fri-Sat, 10:30pm-1:30am. Through Aug 31, 9:30pm. Salon de Ning, B/F, The Peninsula Hong Kong, Salisbury Rd., Tsim Sha Tsui, 2696-6705. Biennial of the Lions Having toured the world for 10 years, the Biennial of the Lions now comes to Macau. These 50 unique lion sculptures have been designed by French and Chinese artists: the lion being a symbol of strength in Europe, and of prosperity and protection in China. Spot them dotted around the MGM Macau as well as some of the city’s tourist spots. The MGM Art Space has also put on the “Biennial of the Lions— Beyond the Roar” exhibition, which features photos and presentations about Macanese and French cultures. Through Oct 12. MGM Grand, Avenida Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, (+853) 8802-8888. Free. Art Masterpieces of Painting from French National Museums If you can’t jet off to France on a whim, find a little joie de vivre at the Macao Museum of Art instead, where 12 masterpieces from the most prestigious French museums are on loan here until September. These grand works, borrowed from the likes of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée du Louvre, tell the story of French culture through the ages. Gaze upon a Monet, Renoir, Matisse or Picasso—and then go and eat a Portuguese egg tart. Yeah, colonialism! Through Sep 7. Macao Museum of Art, The Macao Cultural Centre, Avenida Xian Xing Hai, Nape, (+853) 8791-9814. $5 entry. Sports UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Le This will be a fight with a difference: it’s the first time the Ultimate Fighting Championship is bringing a women’s match to Asia. Russian Milana Dudieva will set foot in the Octagon with American Elizabeth Phillips in a women’s bantamweight bout at the Cotai Arena. On the main fight card: Briton Michael Bisping faces off against Vietnamese-American powerhouse Cung Le. Aug 23. CotaiArena, The Venetian, Estrado do Istmo, Cotai (+853) 6333-6660. $280-4,680 from www.cotaiticketing.com. Nightlife Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman Club Cubic hosts Swedish DJs Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman—widely considered one of EDM’s most promising rising duos. If this world tour is anything to go by, they’ve already achieved a star following, with gigs at London’s O2 Brixton Academy, Cream in Ibiza and Belgium’s Tomorrowland festival. Like EDM? Then see you there. Aug 16, 11.30pm. Club Cubic, 2/F, Hard Rock Hotel, City of Dreams, Estrada do Istmo, Cotai, (+853) 6638-4999. $250 at the door. SoHo, City of Dreams A staggering 16 restaurants have been added to City of Dreams in its new “SoHo” area. Familiar faces from Hong Kong include Taiwanese fave Din Tai Fung and swanky Shelter Italian Bar & Restaurant. There’s a bit of everything: from a sports bar, to Mexican fare and roasted goose. Street artist D*Face, whose signature logo can be found down Hong Kong’s back streets, has crafted his murals on SoHo’s walls. L2, City of Dreams, Estrada do Istmo, Cotai, (+853) 8868 6688, www.cityofdreamsmacau.com/dining. August Wine Tasting This is a pretty good happy hour deal for a Friday night: the Sands Macao’s Australian wine tasting night is $150 for three hours of swilling and slurping—plus you’ll get free canapes. Even with the ferry it’s still cheaper than a night in LKF. Aug 15. Sands Macao Hotel, 203 Largo de Monte Carlo. Reservations: (+853) 6618-3844. 26th Macau International Fireworks Display Contest One night of fireworks just isn’t enough for our sister SAR. And so the skies above Macau will light up over five nights between Sep 8 and Oct 1 as part of the International Fireworks Display Coming up… New in town… Contest: a firework-off between 10 international teams. Leading pyrotechnic companies from around the globe will descend on the city to impress punters with their flares and rockets, choreographed to music and light projections. If you live in Macau: we are so, so sorry. Sep 8, 13, 20, 27 and Oct 1, 9pm. Macau Tower Shorefront, Avenida Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, fireworks.macautourism.gov.mo. Free. HK MAGAZINE FRIDAY, August 15, 2014 35
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