Huck teams up with Eastern Margins for a special SXSW London showcase
- Text by Isaac Muk
- Photography by Min Sett Hein
From Shibuya to Shoreditch — Taking place at Village Underground on Monday, performances will come from MONO, Nina Utashiro, Ena Mori, Jianbo, LVRA & Soda Plains.
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.
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.
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.
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