Hong Kong Cantopop boy band Mirror will join a raft of stars performing to 5,500 people at Kai Tak Sports Park on Friday for a test event to gauge how smoothly staff can disperse concert crowds and the impact on the local neighbourhood.
The “Chill Keng Music Festival” will take place at the indoor Kai Tak Arena and feature a line-up that includes Mirror, Cantopop girl group Collar, and various Thai performers such as Scrubb, Serious Bacon, Atlas, D Gerrard, 4Eve, Jeff Satur and Bowkylion.
Sports commissioner George Tsoi Kin-pan said on Wednesday that 5,500 spectators would take part in the test event. The arena has seating space for up to 10,000 people.
“The overall configuration between sports events and concert events is completely different,” he said.
“For concert events, it involves more set-up and the stage arrangement, which we do not have during the sports events. There are also rehearsals we are going to test for the concert events.
“Apart from this, the spectators’ arrival and dispersal patterns for concert events are quite different from typical sports events.”