Huck teams up with Eastern Margins for a special SXSW London showcase

Huck is col­lab­o­rat­ing with East and South­east Asian (ESEA) alter­na­tive cul­ture crew and music crew East­ern Mar­gins for a spe­cial par­ty at Vil­lage Under­ground on Mon­day, June 2.

Tak­ing place between 6pm and 11pm, it will be an open­ing par­ty for the week-long SXSW Lon­don fes­ti­val and con­fer­ence, which is mak­ing its Lon­don debut this year.

The line-up fea­tures a strong focus on Japan­ese tal­ent, with the bill being topped by instru­men­tal post-rock­ers MONO, rap exper­i­men­tal­ist Nina Utashiro and Fil­ipino-Japan­ese left­field pop singer Ena Mori.

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Viet­namese-Chi­nese Lon­don rap­per Jian­bo will also per­form, hav­ing dropped a pair of sin­gles in recent months.

Tak­ing place across 30+ venues in Shored­itch, east Lon­don between June 2 and June 7, SXSW London’s inau­gur­al event will fea­ture a music fes­ti­val, film pre­mieres, con­fer­ence talks, art exhi­bi­tions and technology.

Oth­er music high­lights include Bahrai­ni-British duo Dar Disku, Can­ning Town night­club FOLD’s exper­i­men­tal par­ty Futur.Shock, col­lab­o­ra­tive hip-hop crew The Sil­hou­ettes Project, and bound­ary break­ing exper­i­men­tal artist Tony Njoku’s Stu­dio Njoku show­case. Revis­it our What Made Me fea­ture with Tony here.

• Read next: Uplift­ing, inti­mate por­traits of young British Chi­nese men

Film high­lights include pre­mieres of Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf, which pro­files the lead­ing trans activist, mod­el and author, as well as the BBC’s TV adap­ta­tion of Paris Lees’s What It Feels Like for a Girl.

Revis­it our fea­ture on the 2024 edi­tion of Mar­gins Unit­ed, Europe’s first fes­ti­val ded­i­cat­ed to alter­na­tive ESEA alter­na­tive music and cul­ture, here.

For pass­es and more infor­ma­tion on SXSW Lon­don, vis­it its offi­cial web­site.