About

Hong Kong In The 60s are Mei Yau Kan (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Christopher Greenberg (keyboards, vocals, guitar) and Tim Scullion (guitar, keyboards, vocals), a multilingual three-piece who formed in London in 2007.

They are influenced by early electronic pop, 1960s Chinese music and Italian film soundtracks. Using their collection of old Casio keyboards, the group combine bittersweet pop melodies and atmospheric electronics to create what Sean O’Hagan of The High Llamas describes as a “lovely, understated and quite beautiful sound”.

Between them, the three band members have lived in Hong Kong, Japan, Africa, Brazil, Spain and the UK. Tim and Mei Yau met at school in Berkshire and the band came together, years later, after Christopher and Mei Yau chanced upon each other while working as librarians at Oxford University.

Their music has been played on BBC Radio 1 & 6music [UK], Resonance FM [UK], WFMU [USA], Triple R [Aus], RTE [Ireland] and other radio stations throughout the world.

Hong Kong In The 60s released their debut EP Willow Pattern Songs on the Proper Songs label in Autumn 2009, available as a digital download and limited CD. It was followed by a single edit and Last Skeptik remix of EP opener Footsteps.

Towards the end of 2009 the band put live performance on hold while they set about writing and recording My Fantoms, their forthcoming first album. With the album nearly complete, they have recently scheduled their first gigs in almost a year.

July 2010 saw the release of Seasons and Cycles, a collaborative 7″ single with The Advisory Circle on the Ghost Box label. Future releases in this series of collaborations will feature The Focus Group, Seeland, Mordant Music and Broadcast.