Celebrate Mercury Fèng's forthcoming EP 'HK Sunset City Baby' in style with a relaxed, intimate pre-release listening party at Octo Listening Bar. All are welcome :)
MF will play her EP through at 4 and again at 4:30pm. Stay for afters with an EP-inspired TVDiSKO dj set from 5pm.
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Wellington, New Zealand, 2026: Chinese New Zealand musician and artist
Lucy 小凤 Beeler, aka Mercury Fèng, waits for her washing in the
Berhampore Laundrette. Between cycles, she daydreams, imagining
herself in another life, locking eyes with a wanted man inside Hong
Kong’s Chungking Mansions three decades earlier. Their encounters are
distant, but loaded with desire, until they finally draw closer after
sunset, on one of many rainy, neon-lit nights.
Simultaneously inward-looking and as expansive as the Victoria Harbour
skyline, Mercury Fèng’s HK Sunset City Baby is a soft-focus
exploration of romantic longing and the fleeting moments of connection
that feel like forever, expressed over six ethereal songs that explore
memories, dreams, the pain of distance, and the intricacies of
intimacy.
Set against glossy retrofuturistic synthesisers, floaty drum machines
and atmospheric guitars, Beeler transforms herself into her alter ego,
Mercury Fèng, a lost diva from Hong Kong’s cultural golden era.
Following the hazy, hypnagogic pop of her archive for humble stones
(2025) album, HK Sunset City Baby, made with support from Creative New
Zealand, marks a new stylistic milestone in her oeuvre. Due for
release on 28 November 2026, through World of Paint, on cassette and
digital formats. [Martyn Pepperell]
