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The Guardian view on the Southbank Centre: ministers must support innovation in the present as well as the past

Editorial: The decision to grant listed-building status to the brutalist arts complex was bold. Now artists need support to match it

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

The Southbank Centre is striking, polarising and now protected

Letters: Francis Bown says its grey concrete and childlike composition expressed the fatalism and despair of the time, while Helen Keats reflects on other brutalist builds

The Guardian - UK

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Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake

As one of the longest running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs’ paradise

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners welcome ‘long overdue’ listing of brutalist Southbank Centre

Decision to grant Grade II status marks turnaround for what was once voted ‘Britain’s ugliest building’

The Guardian - UK

London's Southbank Centre finally gets listed status after 35-year battle to secure 60s Brutalist landmark

The new listing marks a major victory for campaigners, who have long argued for the building’s architectural and cultural importance

Evening Standard

Sally Tallant appointed as new director of London’s Hayward Gallery

Leeds-born artistic director will take over role as arts institution celebrates its 75th anniversary this year

The Guardian - UK

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Southbank Centre to ‘galvanise’ nation with Festival of Britain celebration

Danny Boyle will oversee youth culture event in May to mark 75th anniversary of postwar ‘burst of colour’

The Guardian - UK

Danny Boyle turns Southbank Centre into a playground for its 75th birthday

London’s cultural landmark goes full technicolour... and everyone is invited to the party

Evening Standard

Danny Boyle to curate celebration of youth culture at Southbank Centre

Goalhanger, the podcast production company co-founded by Gary Lineker, will record live editions at the site during the arts venue’s 2026 season.

Evening Standard

We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon review – riotous takeover of the Southbank Centre

A cast of 80 spray-paint the pavement, parade a 40-phone selfie stick and bring dirty bass to ballet in (La)Horde’s night of sensational dance morsels

The Guardian - UK

Suede on Oasis, anti-nostalgia and 'society at breaking point'

Suede are taking over the Southbank Centre this month but with a killer new album out this will be far from a wallowing in the past

Evening Standard

Carlos Muñoz Villalobos obituary

Other lives: Political refugee who founded an Andean band that performed at the Southbank Centre and at Womad

The Guardian - UK

Jon Batiste on joining Little Simz' Meltdown: 'the system is trying to commodify young artists'

The musical pioneer Jon Batiste, along with the Southbank Centre’s Jane Beese , tells us about the philosophy of Meltdown and why its now more important than ever

Evening Standard

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King stunned by David Attenborough’s age as pair attend ocean film premiere

Charles walked the ‘blue carpet’ and saw a first screening of Ocean With David Attenborough at the Southbank Centre in London on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

King says he ‘can’t believe’ David Attenborough’s age as pair walk blue carpet

King Charles marvelled at Sir David Attenborough’s longevity during the premiere of a poignant environmental film highlighting the crucial role of oceans.

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Gardner review – no recording could match the visceral thrill of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony live

Gardner’s pacing was virtuosic as his cast of hundreds proved the Southbank Centre’s maxim that you cannot experience the Multitudes festival at home

The Guardian - UK

‘Be playful, try new things!’ The Southbank Centre’s Mark Ball on his new festival, Multitudes

The arts centre’s artistic director is on a mission to bring new audiences to the joys of classical music. He explains why mixing it with circus, grime, poetry, and film might be the way to do it

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The Independent UK

Little Simz announces more artists for Meltdown 2025

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Baftas 2025: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – as it happened

It was goths galore on the red carpet, while David Tennant sang on stage and Conclave locked horns with The Brutalist. Here’s what happened at the 78th British academy film awards

The Guardian - UK

Architecture film sparks new call to list Southbank Centre

Twentieth Century Society wants London landmark to get listed status with brutalism in Oscars spotlight

The Independent UK

Sally Rooney kicks off book event with impassioned pro-Palestine speech: ‘Keep protesting’

Exclusive: The ‘Normal People’ author urged listeners to ‘not give in to despair’

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Southbank Centre is UK's fifth most visited attraction, but we need more government investment

The Southbank Centre is the UK’s fifth most visited attraction and the UK’s largest arts centre. We’re an important space for local communities and the UK's visitor economy as a major attraction yet we receive no public funding for the upkeep and maintenance of our venues and we now need…

Evening Standard

Home Office denies visas to young Afghan musicians, Southbank Centre says

The Afghan Youth Orchestra was due to travel to the UK to begin their UK tour at the Southbank Centre

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