Every city needs music to help it grow branches and keep evolving. Music, especially ‘live’ music in the right setting, gives those who live in these cities feel alive and energised and inspired and which then becomes a chain reaction of all kinds of emotions that creates a product and brand personality- advertising talk for standing out from the crowd. It’s something I feel whenever in New York or London or Copenhagen, definitely Paris, and anywhere in Latin America. The fir

Always having strong links to Hong Kong and having done my part to enhance quite a few different things in the city, as a writer, I enjoy shining a light on those uplifting moments whether it be the successes of champion Hong Kong born swimmer Siobhan Haughey, the world famous HK Rugby Sevens or those achievements in horse racing that might travel under the radar or get lost in the bouillabaisse of bollocks that way too often raises their heads. When writing about the politic

A former colleague in advertising revisiting Hong Kong after over twenty years was mentioning just how much the city- and everything in it- has changed, and not for the better either. Having been invited to Riyadh for the running of the Saudi Cup and watching Japan’s Forever Young win and meeting the team behind this equine superstar, we talked about the horse racing in Hong Kong, which he had seen up close and personal last Thursday at the bang a gong Chinese New Year’s Day