2 Lower Albert Rd, Central

… is the address of the Hong Kong Fringe Club where I am doing my residency. It was once an old ice factory where they used to keep ice for the rich people who lived in the mid levels (up the hills / and The Peak). They also used to keep milk and cream there as well. In WW2 they used it to keep dead soldiers bodies in before they were buried. It now is and has been for the past 20 years a place for the arts.

The building houses 2 theatres, 1 rehearsal room, 3 galleries, 2 restaurants, 3 (very small) offices, a techs room + it has a great roof top garden where I eat great vegetarian and meat curries most lunchtimes as it’s free for staff. On Saturday’s and Sunday’s they serve an all day breakfast, which is also a treat as well.

The place employs approximately 24 staff with about 50% of them just concerned with the Food and Beverage services the club runs. I am positioned in the ground floor office (a small and cosy affair) where we work hard but also have a lot of fun.


Here’s Jackie, Tracey, Savita, Gina, Christian, Simon and I celebrating our Christmas cracker gifts and enjoying Haighs chocolates (which I supplied) and Simon in the middle being Harry Potter ... well ... sort of.

We are about to stage a two week long festival in this building which starts on January 11th. We had a press launch on December 11th, which I helped out on … here’s some photos.


Here’s a link to a you-tube sequence of the press launch – which I also worked on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAFRcPoFcPg

More Soon
Steve xxx