chimp71 hong kong world tour report#1
the more it changes the more it stays the same... this city is still one of my all time favourite places, haven't been back since 97 for the vitamin trip handover chaos tour which is really too long.
some huge new buildings, including IFC which is about twice the size of everything else, and stands taller at 88 floors than the peak. crazy 88 indeed.
caught the prawn in action at last rocking the house last saturday at hk's premier micro club yumla ("tunes/booze/people" - an attitude all chimps can relate to) a big night in true hk style, and although we did manage to cab it out of there before sunrise, in that brief blue dawn that hits around 6.30, it was the first night in ages i wasn;t ready to end. great crowd, with the hk hairdresser posse out in full force which is always fun, and cool to see everyone freaking out to a truly out=there and inspired collection of classics, cheeky plunderphonics, decent pop, west/east-coast rock, hiphop, blah blah bit of this, bit of that -just everything that's great about loud music in a bar really. tunes like wrote for luck, killing in the name of, and saturday night ('s all ri-i-ght... indeed). even some xanadu, which was awesome. haven't seen the prawn actually play out since the love train days way back in about 88 or something ridiculous, so that was a real treat. it's taxis of evil (formerly axes of evil as regular c'omatic dudes will recall) next week, same place, can't wait for that.
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