Meltdown festival
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
Alexis Petridis
16, Jun, 2024 @1:57 PM
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’
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
29, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
Christine and the Queens review – grief, lust and transcendence
Performed live, the pop auteur’s latest album is a magnificent – if occasionally frustrating – fever dream of religious imagery, existential loneliness and oceanic feelings
Kitty Empire
24, Jun, 2023 @1:00 PM
Christine and the Queens review – phantasmagoric drama and musical transcendence
A two-hour rock opera version of their new album – which is in turn inspired by Tony Kushner’s Aids drama Angels in America – the band’s feverish Meltdown performance was overwhelming
Emma Garland
18, Jun, 2023 @12:22 PM
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
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
13, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
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
Kitty Empire
18, Jun, 2022 @1:00 PM
Let’s not ‘get back to normal’: the Southbank Centre will reflect our changed world
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
Gillian Moore
25, May, 2021 @1:24 PM
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
Laura Snapes
10, Feb, 2020 @11:00 AM
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?!’
Laura Snapes
06, Nov, 2019 @1:09 PM
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
Caroline Sullivan
14, Aug, 2019 @10:48 AM
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…
Damien Morris
10, Aug, 2019 @1:00 PM
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
Dorian Lynskey
04, Aug, 2019 @10:46 AM
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