Every May, the KCCUK (Korean Cultural Centre UK) delights London with an exploration in Korean music. Thanks to a showcase going on stage at Rich Mix in Shoreditch, they shine a light on the new names and waves in K-sound. 2019 will be no exception, and on 7th May, you...
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Ever wondered what to do in London and when and where to go to listen to some good music? Don’t ask twice, we’re here for you… SOAS Radio opened its doors to us for a brand new episode of Rhythm Passport on Air. “Tune in” by clicking on the player below and...
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...
A pop-star concert is not your average gig, even less so when that pop-star is Asia’s biggest singer, rapper, songwriter, producer, and fashion icon, G-Dragon, on his first European tour. At 5:30pm on Sunday 24th September, the queues stretching all along the sides of the SSE Arena in Wembley were...
G-DRAGON, musician, producer, fashion icon, leader of BIGBANG – one of the best-selling boy bands in Asia and the world – is “the undisputed king of K-Pop” (as the American Vogue has called him), finally bringing his world tour to Europe for the first time, touching down in London on...
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...
As a warm-up show for the K-MUSIC FESTIVAL, happening September 2016, the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK (KCCUK) and the Korean Creative Contents Agency (KOCCA) have brought three South-Korean rock bands to The Forge, in Camden, on Wednesday 25th May. The most notorious South-Korean musical export might be K-Pop,...