Catch Danny Rampling, Preditah, Stephan Bodzin and many more at ALTN8 electronic music festival

After being pretty much a one-festival town for many years, Hong Kong has suddenly become home to a dizzying array of events covering pretty much every musical style. What they tend to have in common, though, is their format: essentially, a bunch of bands, DJs or whatever performing on outdoor stages.

ALTN8 is a little different. The electronic music event takes place on March 11, daytime and nighttime, at nine different indoor venues, all of them bars and restaurants in a small area clustered around Lan Kwai Fong. The main stages are at Spiga and Mercedes Me, there are others at Volar, Zafran, Fish & Meat, Rúla Búla, Fly, Halcyon (also the registration point) and Stockton (also the backstage and VIP area).

“The advantage of all the venues being so central is people don’t have to make so much of a commitment,” says Roger De Leon, one of the event’s two organisers. “And people club-hop in Hong Kong anyway.”

The use of existing venues means that each has its own food and drinks, and the queues are unlikely to be as severe as at most outdoor events – plus, being indoors, there’s unlikely to be a repeat of the prolonged downpour at last year’s Clockenflap.

Also, of course, there’s less concern about annoying the neighbours. Or, as De Leon’s co-organiser, Charlie Toller puts it: “We can go as loud as we want, and we can go as late as we want.”