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Harry Styles to curate Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre – and play an intimate gig

The pop superstar will oversee the annual music and art celebration in June, marking the festival’s 31st edition and the venue’s 75th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

Harry Styles to curate Meltdown Festival 2026

Harry Styles has been named as the curator of this year's Meltdown Festival at London's Southbank Centre.

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Harry Styles to curate 2026 Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre: 'I'm deeply honoured'

Harry Styles follows the likes of David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones and Patti Smith in arranging the festival’s line-up

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Little Simz & Chineke! Orchestra review – rap-classical crossover is spectacularly realised

Closing out a Simz-curated Meltdown festival, and with a host of star guests helping out, these songs gain extra nuance as orchestra and star meld perfectly together

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s been incredible’: Little Simz ends Meltdown festival with orchestral show

Little Simz curated this year’s event.

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Little Simz announces more artists for Meltdown 2025

Mercury Prize-winning rapper is overseeing the 30th edition of the prestigious event

The Independent UK

Mahalia among artists added to Little Simz' Meltdown festival

Mahalia, Tiwa Savage, and more artists will join Little Simz for an unforgettable Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre this June

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Little Simz’s Meltdown 2025: first acts announced, including The Streets and Ghetts

All performances will be between June 12 and 22 at the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, with Meltdown based at the Southbank Centre

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Little Simz to curate Meltdown Festival 2025

The 2025 edition of London's Meltdown festival will be curated by Little Simz.

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Little Simz named as curator of Southbank music festival Meltdown 2025

It’s “going to be epic” promises the London rapper and Top Boy star

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Little Simz to curate 2025 Meltdown festival

British rapper is the youngest artist to take on the mantle of curator, following stars such as David Bowie and Patti Smith

The Guardian - UK

Meltdown, the Little Simz way: Pioneering rapper to curate Southbank music festival

Mercury Prize-winning artist will bring together 11 days of art, music and workshops, as well as performing herself

The Independent UK

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

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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’

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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

Evening Standard

Oxlade at Meltdown Festival review: sporadically dazzling, but the Nigerian star is still a work in progress

A glittery catwalk show of fabulous outfits and high-voltage glamour – and that was just the audience

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Christine and the Queens Southbank’s Meltdown Festival line-up announced, including Warpaint and Sigur Rós

The 28th edition of the festival will take place in London in June

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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

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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

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Greentea Peng at Meltdown gig review: intoxicating, but in need of a lyrical sharpener

The buzzy rising star’s show was a showcase for her vocal skills, but her lyrics remain a bit of a blind spot

Evening Standard

Grace Jones at the Southbank Centre: This Meltdown opening gig was everything you wanted it to be

The 74-year-old was on top form all night, even if she did arrive one hour - and two years - late

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Grace Jones’ Meltdown festival: Your gig-by-gig guide to the 2022 series at Southbank Centre

With a line-up as vibrant as the woman curating it, the latest edition of this long-running festival looks set to be a special one

The Guardian - US

‘Dodged a bullet’: how whistleblowers averted a second US nuclear disaster

The Netflix docuseries Meltdown: Three Mile Island, revisits a 1979 nuclear accident and the cut corners that could have resulted in a disaster years later

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Grace Jones’ Meltdown: Greentea Peng, Dry Cleaning and others join Southbank Centre line-up

A free programme of roller-skating workshops, reggae soundclashes and more has also been confirmed

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