The one that follows is our third interview with Park Jiha in five years. If you have already read the previous ones, you might presume that it’s old hat, but nothing could be more wrong. In fact, it’s as if, through the years, we have met three different artists. Despite...
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At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
It doesn’t happen every day that we have the opportunity to enjoy sounds coming from Korea. Luckily, once a year, Serious and the Korean Cultural Centre fill venues like Southbank Centre, Kings Place and Rich Mix with East Asian notes, offering to London the K-Music Festival. During seven shows scattered...
Are you ready for a full-immersion in K-sounds? For the fifth year in a row, Serious and the Korean Cultural Centre are bringing to London the K-music Festival with its full supply of East Asian notes. Check out our playlist and have a sneak peek and listen to what you can enjoy...
We’re living in a world where K-pop gets daytime airplay on BBC Radio 1. Think about that for a second, a Korean pop song getting played by a national UK radio station where usually the English-language norm is only broken by the occasional Spanish lyric. That’s just mind-blowing. I’m referring...
The K-Music Festival returns to London this autumn for the fourth time, with a stunning programme showcasing the different shades of contemporary South Korean music. Produced by the Korean Cultural Centre UK as part of the Korea/UK 2017-18 season, in collaboration with SERIOUS, this year’s festival focuses on collaborations, letting...
Upon entering, we first noticed a large banner upstage reading in bold orange letters – “KOREAN SOUNDS”, to which a friend commented – “What do Korean Sounds sound like?”. We were both rather unfamiliar with Korean music and were excited to find out more. The banner was of course referring...
For the second visit of the K-Music Festival to Shoreditch’s Rich Mix, two acts will take the stage on Friday 21st October. Danpyunsun & The Sailors are a four-piece band founded in 2013. Their music is extremely original, ranging from folk, to rock, to classical — if asked to label...
The K-Music Festival has returned to London, with a multi-coloured programme of music and performance that will rock the British capital until the end of October. After the kick-off on 15th September, the festival will hit Rich Mix, the Shoreditch multi-arts venue, on Tuesday 27th September, for a night of...