Massive Attack's Meltdown
Southbank Centre is pleased to announce the long awaited line-up for Massive Attack's Meltdown, Southbank Centre's largest contemporary music festival. As Artistic Directors of this year's Meltdown, Massive Attack take over all 21 acres of Southbank Centre - including the riverside, Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall - for nine days of concerts, DJ sets, talks, films and visual art specially chosen by Massive Attack. Massive Attack follow in the mercurial footsteps of previous Meltdown Artistic Directors John Peel, Robert Wyatt, Scott Walker, David Bowie, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Morrissey, Patti Smith and Jarvis Cocker.
MELTDOWN AT BFI SOUTHBANK
During Meltdown BFI Southbank features events and screenings
reflecting Massive Attack's many influences and interests. More information
events in this series
Festival Riverside
Silent Disco with Massive Attack's Daddy G
Friday 13 June 2008
The unique experience that is Silent Disco comes back to Southbank Centre for Massive Attack's Meltdown with guest DJ Massive Attack's Daddy G.
£12.50
Purcell Room
Reprieve Screening: Fourteen Days In May + Q & A
Saturday 14 June 2008
Screening of the BFI award-winning documentary Fourteen Days In May recounting the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder.
£7
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Gong
Saturday 14 June 2008
Seeded in Paris during the 1968 student riots, Gong weave their unique magic with an imaginative mix of psychedelic jazz fusion, eastern/world music, synths and loops, and deep space funk all laced with self-deprecating humour - 40 years on their underground influence is massive.
22.50 19.50
Royal Festival Hall
Massive Attack
Saturday 14 June 2008
This year’s Directors open the festival by performing songs from their wide-ranging career live on stage.
£35 £30 £25
Festival Riverside
Silent Disco with James Lavelle
Saturday 14 June 2008
The unique experience that is Silent Disco comes back to Southbank Centre for Massive Attack's Meltdown with guest DJ James Lavelle.
£12.50
Purcell Room
Reprieve Screening - Taxi to the Dark Side
Sunday 15 June 2008
Screening of Academy Award-winning documentary on the controversial death of an Afghan taxi driver in US custody in Afghanistan, followed by post-screening discussion with Clive Stafford Smith, Director of Reprieve, the legal action charity, and released Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg.
£7
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Acoustic Reggae Songbook
Sunday 15 June 2008
Massive Attack hosts this special performance by renowned names in roots and reggae.
£20 £17.50
Royal Festival Hall
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Sunday 15 June 2008
Pioneers of electropop, Yellow Magic Orchestra brought synthpop to the world along with Kraftwerk in the 1980s.
£35 £30 £25 £20
Front Room
The Dubstep Chronicles
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Big names in the burgeoning dubstep movement, including Mala (Digital Mystikz), Kode9, Skream, Pinch, Horsepower and The Moody Boyz, DJ in The Front Room with a live performance from Jazz Steppa.
£12.50
Royal Festival Hall
Vangelis' Blade Runner Soundtrack performed live by the Heritage Orchestra, mixed by Massive Attack
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Witness the retro-future score for the iconic science fiction film Blade Runner played live, with live mixing by Massive Attack.
£20 £17.50
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Shortwave Set + Martina Topley Bird
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Sample-based popsters and self-desribed masters of Victorian funk, The Shortwave Set bring their distinctive sound to Meltdown.
£15
Royal Festival Hall
Stiff Little Fingers + Mark Stewart & The Maffia + Adrian Sherwood
Wednesday 18 June 2008
£20 £17.50 £15
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Massive Attack Presents Future Sounds of Hip-Hop: Dalek + Shape of Broad Minds + Flying Lotus
Thursday 19 June 2008
£17.50 £15
Royal Festival Hall
Grace Jones
Thursday 19 June 2008
The statuesque Grace Jones performs, including songs from her as yet untitled new album.
£45 £35 £25
Festival Riverside
Silent Disco with Peaches
Thursday 19 June 2008
The unique experience that is Silent Disco comes back to Southbank Centre for Massive Attack's Meltdown with guest DJ Peaches.
£12.50
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Terry Callier + Aloe Blacc
Friday 20 June 2008
American jazz, soul and folk guitarist who came out of relative obscurity when he collaborated with UK musicians in the 1990s.
£22.50 £20
Royal Festival Hall
Gang of Four
Friday 20 June 2008
Fueled by radical politics and punk rock fury, Gang of Four is one of the seminal post-punk bands, their stripped-down sound going on to inspire and influence everyone from The Rapture to Bloc Party.
£22.50 £20 £17.50
Festival Riverside
Silent Disco with Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet
Friday 20 June 2008
The unique experience that is Silent Disco comes back to Southbank Centre for Massive Attack's Meltdown with guest DJ Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet.
£12.50
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tunng
Saturday 21 June 2008
Tunng are a musical collective, coming out of the fringes of scenes - partly post-rave soundsystem, partly underground art music epitomised and partly folk – making pop music the way they always dreamed it could sound.
£15 £12.50
Royal Festival Hall
George Clinton & Parliament/ Funkadelic
Saturday 21 June 2008
£35 £30 £25
Purcell Room
Reprieve: The Rendition Monologues
Saturday 21 June 2008
Rendition Monologues weaves together the first-hand testimonies of victims kidnapped and illegally transferred as terrorism suspects, and others considered to be implicated in the 'War on Terror', to nation states with a reputation for torture for interrogation.
£12.50
Festival Riverside
Silent Disco with Andrew Weatherall
Saturday 21 June 2008
The unique experience that is Silent Disco comes back to Southbank Centre for Massive Attack's Meltdown with guest DJ Andrew Weatherall.
£12.50
Queens Walk
Saxon Sound System
Sunday 22 June 2008
Saxon Sound System brings their renowned reggae and dancehall to Meltdown, featuring guest appearances from Tippa Irie, Papa Levi, Trevor Sax and Musclehead.
Admission free
Royal Festival Hall
Massive Attack
Sunday 22 June 2008
This year’s Meltdown Directors close the festival with a live performance.
£35 £30 £25
Royal Festival Hall
An Evening with MC5 and Primal Scream
Tuesday 24 June 2008
MC5 and Primal Scream perform in Royal Festival Hall.
£27.50 £25
