Ravers and the party crowd in Hong Kong will be sorely disappointed to hear that this year’s edition of the UK’s EDM music festival Creamfields has been cancelled. The event organisers posted on their official Instagram account on February 17, announcing via Stories that the festival will no longer be taking place.
All festival-goers will be fully refunded on their now-defunct tickets within seven working days, without needing to apply for compensation. The Klook ticketing platform will send out details of the refund.
No reason was cited for the cancellation, but the internet has been rife with rumours since the announcement. Though not evident in the English Instagram Story, Creamfields’ Story in Chinese included the phrase ‘due to factors that cannot be resisted’. Netizens have already noted that this year’s lineup had included Grammy-winning German DJ Zedd as a headliner.
Zedd, whose real name is Anton Zaslavski, had previously posted on X back in 2019 that he ‘just got permanently banned from China’ for liking a South Park tweet. The offending tweet in question was related to the animated show’s 300th episode, which famously features the character Randy Marsh meeting Disney’s Pooh and Piglet when they’re all thrown into prison in China after Chinese president Xi Jinping was compared to Pooh in online memes. The episode triggered the ire of mainland Chinese authorities, and South Park has since been removed from Chinese sites and social media platforms.
Of course, this online discourse is all conjecture, and it is unlikely Hongkongers will ever get an official answer as to why the EDM festival was cancelled. Let’s hope they’ll be able to put on a bigger and better show in 2026!
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