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Meltdown festival

June 2024

  • Chaka Khan.

    Chaka Khan review – queen of funk sounds as majestic as ever

    The peerless 71-year-old opens this year’s Meltdown festival sounding very much like the Chaka Khan of the 70s and 80s used to, and performs 50 years’ worth of potent disco, soul and jazz classics with effortless vibrancy

January 2024

  • Chaka Khan at Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre.

    Chaka Khan to curate 2024’s Meltdown festival in London

    Funk and disco star promises June event series at London’s Southbank Centre will be ‘where magic of music meets the warmth of community’

July 2023

  • Mark Rylance photographed at Mountview drama school in Peckham, London.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in June 2023

June 2023

  • Christine and the Queens performing at the Royal Festival Hall.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Christine and the Queens review – grief, lust and transcendence

  • Touched by angels … Christine and the Queens during the Meltdown festival at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

    Christine and the Queens review – phantasmagoric drama and musical transcendence

March 2023

  • Christine and the Queens at a Givenchy show for Paris Fashion Week on 2 March.

    Christine and the Queens announces artists for 2023 Meltdown festival

    French pop singer invites Sigur Rós, Jim Jarmusch and more for June festival at London’s Southbank Centre

June 2022

  • Florence Shaw of Dry cleaning and Oumou Sangaré performing at Meltdown festival.

    Dry Cleaning; Oumou Sangaré review – stars of Grace Jones’s Meltdown

    The deadpan London post-punk band and the gloriously danceable Malian musician offer a delicious contrast early in the festival

May 2021

  • Southbank Centre, London, May 2021.

    Reopening culture
    Let’s not ‘get back to normal’: the Southbank Centre will reflect our changed world

    Gillian Moore
    From postponed Meltdowns to melted icecream, shutting down an 11-acre multi-venue site has made for a challenging 15 months at London’s Southbank Centre. But, as it reopens, there have been gains as well as losses

February 2020

  • Radical … Grace Jones on stage.

    Grace Jones' Meltdown: Solange, Skunk Anansie and Lee Fields to play

    Curator of the London festival’s 27th edition announces trailblazers including Oumou Sangaré, Jimmy Cliff and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, as well as an ‘extraordinary’ show of her own

November 2019

  • ‘There’s no denying it: Grace Jones is unlike anybody else’ ... Grace Jones.

    Grace Jones to curate Meltdown festival 2020

    The disco icon to follow in footsteps of Patti Smith, Yoko Ono and Nick Cave as curator of the London music festival, saying, ‘It’s about time, don’t you think?!’

August 2019

  • Who’s that girl? Dave Stewart with Emeli Sandé.

    Eurythmics Songbook review – sweet dreams of synthpop heaven

    Dave Stewart’s army of guests, including Meltdown host Nile Rodgers, remind the audience how potent his partnership with Annie Lennox was – and leaves them wishing for a reunion
  • Anitta performing at the Royal Festival Hall.

    Nile Rodgers’s Meltdown review – a radical world party

    The Chic supremo serves up a genial, all-inclusive musical feast, with Brazilian pop star Anitta leading the charge…
  • Every reason to celebrate ... Nile Rodgers and Chic at the Royal Festival Hall.

    Nile Rodgers and Chic review – disco springs eternal

    The ‘number one producer in the world’ puts on a breathless show packed with colossal hits that has everyone on their feet

February 2019

  • Nile Rodgers has produced albums and tracks for David Bowie, Madonna, and Daft Punk among others.

    Nile Rodgers announced as guest curator for Meltdown festival 2019

    Prolific singer and producer of landmark pop anthems takes over Southbank Centre’s annual music series

June 2018

  • Robert Smith performing at Meltdown festival.

    Cureation review – scenic-route excursion through the Cure's career

    Robert Smith brings Meltdown festival to a close with a chronological journey through his exquisite, oddly commercial melodies
  • Deliciously heavy ... Deftones frontman Chino Moreno at the Royal Festival Hall.

    Deftones review – bat screeches, unfettered aggro and posh moshing

    The US alt-metallers turn up the experimental static, shoegaze sludge and nu-metal roars to max for a showpiece gig that shows why they deserve reverence
  • Scott Hutchison performing in Glasgow.

    Mental health event to replace Frightened Rabbit set at Meltdown

    Southbank festival will host a panel on mental health and the music industry following band frontman Scott Hutchison’s death in May

March 2018

  • Robert Smith

    May I have a word about… curating

    Jonathan Bouquet
    Is there really an equivalence between running the Ashmolean and putting on a series of gigs featuring Nine Inch Nails and the Libertines?

June 2017

  • Bad girl... MIA performing at the Royal Festival Hall.

    MIA review – pulling up the people with cosmopolitan global pop

  • Rapper MHD

    MHD: 'So many French rappers are inspired by American hip-hop. I'm the opposite'

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