THANK YOU, HONG KONG!! Thank you clockenflap!!

prob a bit late but here's SPARKS AT CLOCKENFLAP 2025!

its also my first sparks concert!

like, i know about them being influences to tmbg, heard no.1 in heaven through a discord server album exchange and really like it, got a kimono my house vinyl while walking around in a local record store because i have th suncontrollable urge to buy it, and one day i decided to go to clockenflap because i have SAT exam on the nearest saturday. at first i was decided to watch mbv (but they play on sunday and i need to fly back to mainland china at sunday night cause i have class and then scanning through the lineup i saw sparks in the friday lineup (the day before the exam) and goes "well i kinda like them so ig i should go see?"

and after a lot of internal struggles i BOUGHT THE TICKET and studied hard for the exam and on that day i was SO SO SO SO SO excited and i was really panicky at the same time because im only approximately two months into the fandom AND IM SO NEAR TO THE STAGE and almost everyone (about 60% of ppl probably? idk actually) are as white as fuck and as old as fuck, i might be the only underaged asian thats actually really into sparks in the front row

and although during many songs that i havent heard before i was really nonchalant i was still really excited during the most of the concert and i shouted "i love you russ" for multiple times... and when they finished playing goofing off i shouted "PLAY BEAT THE CLOCK" because before goofing off they played academic award performance, but i thought they will play beat the clock, or tryouts for the human race (although they havent played that in years) because russ said they will be playing a song from no.1 in heaven... and THEY DID PLAYED IT AFTER I FINISHED SHOUTING... in so lucky that i be fucking screaming (the video is my recording of the song)

Ahhhhhhhhh I finally see them yesterday😭😭😭😭

I was so close to the stage I got to touch Brett’s arm TWICE!! so sweaty and nice shirt🤣

He’s super energetic and what an excellent performance🥹✨ we all went crazy the whole night, and they recorded us clapping for their next album? we weren’t in sync tho🤣🤣

Sang along Saturday Night with all of us right in front of Vitoria Harbour is so goodddddd🥹

I was standing right in front of Richard omgggggg yeahhhh he’s super cool✨✨✨

If only we could see more the other guys more, wish there’s more camera time for them🥹 Neil awwww hair 💯

Brett just confirmed they’re coming back to Hong Kong next year ahhhh I’m going!!!

Arctic Monkeys - Clockenflap Festival, Hong Kong

03/03/2023

HK peeps probably already know this, but Clockenflap 2021 has been cancelled. 2020 was also canceled due to Covid, and 2019 was cancelled due to the protests. 2022 is a long way off, and a lot can happen in a year, as we know.

Wikipedia has a concise history of the fest.

Clockenflap fb had the announcement yesterday.

*sigh* Well, let's hear some music from Hong Kong. This is from the new my little airport album, SABINA之淚:

MLA Links: Spotify, YouTube, Instagram

And some dreamy shoegaze from the recent Lucid Express album: