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Five frames.
Three days a year, the harbourfront in Central becomes the world's densest big-city festival site. Clockenflap is staged so every stage has the Hong Kong Island skyline as its back wall. Headliners play with helicopters overhead and IFC tower lit behind them. The smaller stages (Robot, Atrium) book the most interesting underground programming, the lineups closer to a Berlin or Brooklyn taste than a tourist-festival default. The festival has run since 2008 and shaped the Asian urban-festival template.
The Robot stage runs the most interesting electronic and Asian-underground programming. Most of the crowd never leaves the main stages.
Asia's flagship urban festival. Pairs with Fuji Rock (mountain) and Magnetic Fields (palace) for a three-festival spread.
Annual, three days late November or early December. The Central Harbourfront setting catches sunset around 17:30 each evening. The Robot stage runs the most interesting programming after 22:00.
Three days annually, late November or early December. Site opens midday, music to 23:00 nightly. Day tickets and weekend tickets both available.
MTR to Hong Kong Station or Central, exit through the IFC mall to the waterfront, ten-minute walk west to the Central Harbourfront. Festival shuttle buses from Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui during the event.