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my little airport 
Background information Origin Hong Kong Genres indie-pop Years active 2001-Present Labels Harbour Records, Elefant Records Associated acts la Commune de Hong Kong Members Ah P, Nicole Notable instruments Ah P's casio keyboard my little airport is a Hong Kong-based indie pop band. Their lyrics are marked by spelling, grammar, and rhythm inflected by Hong Kong English. Ah P (Lam Pang) writes the lyrics and the music, which he also plays, while Nicole (Nicole Au Kin-ying) sings. They occasionally invite friends (Ah Suet, who speaks French, for instance) or relatives (Nicole's younger sister) to participate to their albums and shows. They established Harbour Records with four other indie bands from Hong Kong, and on it released their 2004 debut album the ok thing to do on sunday afternoon is to toddle in the zoo. In 2006 they joined Elefant Records, hoping to gain distribution beyond Hong Kong's small indie fanbase.
The band had its start while the two were journalist students at Hong Kong Shue Yan College (now Hong Kong Shue Yan University), writing songs in both English and Cantonese.[1] Then, they intended to put into use the lessons learnt in class, and this is why many of their songs can be said to address the basic questions: "Who ?", "What ?", "Where ?", "When ?", as journalistic works typically do. The duo is also notable for their quirky song titles, often addressed to friends, such as "leo, are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?", "victor, fly me to stafford", or addressed to celebrities, such as "gigi leung is dead", "faye wong, about your eyebrows". In 2009, the group started writing politically themed songs such as "divvying up stephen lam's $300000 salary" and "donald tsang, please die". The latter song was written after Tsang suggested that the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was insignificant compared to China's current economic power[2] (such social/political themes had already been extensively developed by Ah P with Forever Tarkovsky Club, a side project he had set up with Pixeltoy's Ho Shan between 2007 and 2009). A fourth album titled poetics — something between montparnasse and mongkok was released on November, 23rd, 2009, which contains many of those politically charged songs. A fifth album entitled "Hong Kong is one big shopping mall" was released on August, 26th 2011.
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Discography
Studio records
Title Release Date Label the ok thing to do on sunday afternoon is to toddle in the zoo 2004 Harbour Records / HRCD002 becoz i was too nervous at that time 2005 Harbour Records / HRCD007 zoo is sad, people are cruel 2007 Elefant Records / ER-1124 we can't stop smoking in the vicious and blue summer 2007 Harbour Records / HRCD010 poetics — something between montparnasse and mongkok 2009 Harbour Records / HRCD012 hong kong is one big shopping mall 2011 Harbour Records / HRCD014 Singles
2004 - Radio Singles
- come out and play
- tim, do you really wanna make a film?
- in the name of amk
2005 - Radio Singles
- 草地音樂合輯
- 在動物園散步才是正經事
- victor, fly me to stafford
- i don't know how to download good av like iris does
2005 - CD Singles
- when i listen to the field mice
- gigi leung is dead
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Categories:- Cantopop musical groups
- Hong Kong musical groups
- Indie rock groups
- Musical groups established in 2001
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