Cantopop singer and political activist Denise Ho Wan-see held the concert at the site of the shuttered Mount Zero Bookshop on Tai Ping Shan Street on the afternoon of July 1.
Local media reported that more than 10 police officers had arrived at the bookshop at 6pm, an hour after the show had begun. They cordoned off the site and took down the identity card numbers of all staff and attendees inside the premises.
A police spokesman confirmed in the early hours of Monday that a report was filed at 5.50pm on Sunday alleging that a concert held at the venue was creating too much noise.
“Officers arrived at the site to investigate the matter following the report, and suspected that an online concert was being held inside the aforementioned bookshop, possibly creating excess noise that would disturb others,” the spokesman said.
According to local media, the livestream camera panned from the stage set-up to a poster inside the bookshop when the show was first interrupted. The singer could be heard asking fans to wait while staff attended to “a situation”.
Ho was also heard asking if her own identity card details as well as guitarist Mike Orange’s could be taken down first, so they could resume the concert as soon as possible.
An officer was heard telling attendees that police would need to cordon off the area outside the building because of the noise.
The incident has been classified as a noise complaint case, a force spokesman later told the Post.
