Join M.I.A. at the iconic Southbank Centre from 8-19 June for this year’s Meltdown Festival, which she has carefully curated for your aural and visual pleasure! This year is the 24th edition of the Meltdown Festival, which features a different, respected musician at the helm each year, showcasing their influences...
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Tomorrow, the 2017 edition of Southbank Meltdown festival curated by M.I.A. will get under way with Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers. While, on Saturday night, it will be the turn of a London born-and-bred music icon, Afrikan Boy. Choosing the Woolwich MC to enrich the festival line-up, was a no-brainer...
The stage was set at London’s Royal Festival Hall for Atomic Bomb! ‘David Byrne’s Meltdown’ was projected in large letters over the stage and there was no denying a buzz of anticipation in the air that mounted to cheering and whistling as the lights went down and the welcoming words...
As part of David Byrne’s ‘Meltdown’ festival, one of flamenco’s leading lights, Estrella Morente, opened her concert standing solo on an atmospherically lit stage. Within minutes her gypsy-esque voice, plaintiff and emotive had the audience gripped. Morente’s heritage is drenched with Flamenco gold. Her grandfather was the guitarist Montoyita, and...
There are few but well preserved mysteries in the musical world. One of them will be unfolded at Southbank Centre during 2015’s edition of Meltdown Festival curated by David Byrne. Next to a stimulating show, “Atomic Bomb! The Music of William Onyeabor” is also an attempt to explain who William Onyeabor is and...
