SCMP STYLE AWARDS
Feb 26, 2008
The winners in the nightlife and entertainment category, club owners Benedict Ku, Jaime Ku, Ina Yip and Ray Ng, based their unique brand on non-commercial music. Their club Volar brought European electro-rock to clubbers in the city.
Benedict Ku said: “I don’t think it’s a risk. We thought that we needed to bring something different to Hong Kong – give people excitement to come out.”
Mr Ng added: “It was more like setting a trend.”
Mr Ku, 34, and Mr Ng, 37, said they started going to clubs in their teens and still loved clubbing and chilling out with friends. Mr Ng said that when he was still working as a lawyer, he could not afford the time to party, which caused him much distress. “Now I just spend four days [clubbing]. I used to go out six days [a week],” Mr Ng said.
Both agreed that Hong Kong was the perfect place for nightlife because it was easy to hop between different clubs and bump into a variety of people on the same night.