All of London’s hip young stoners converged on the South Bank to see Greentea Peng’s show, part of a rich Meltdown festival bill curated by Grace Jones. Peng is the alter ego of 27-year-old musician Aria Wells, a striking beauty (which is what Peng means; Greentea from her love of the drink) who grew up in south-east London and Hastings.
Wells has been a buzzy rising star for a few years, earning rave reviews and famous fans, but she remains a semi-underground cult artist. Her debut album, Man Made, only just scraped into the Top 50 last year. Even so, she is clearly doing something right, because this performance drew an impressively large, youthful and excitable crowd.
