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Robert Smith’s Meltdown
15 Jun - 24 Jun

Robert Smith curates the UK’s longest-running artist-curated music festival in its 25th year. Smith is the lead singer and principal songwriter of...

Part of Robert Smith’s Meltdown
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exhibition

Lee Bul, Via Negativa II (interior detail), 2014. © Lee Bul 2018. Courtesy: Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York and Hong Kong. Photo: Mark Blower.

Lee Bul

1 Jun - 19 Aug
Art

Lee Bul transforms Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscape featuring monstrous bodies, futuristic cyborgs, glittering mirrored...

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festival

Man Booker 50 headshots 128733 BBC World Book Club: Hilary Mantel 2018

Man Booker 50
6 Jul - 8 Jul

Discover the finest fiction of yesterday, today and tomorrow at a festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize.

For half a...

Part of Man Booker 50
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happening at our venues

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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Purcell Room entrance

Royal Festival Hall

7:30 pm | Sat 23 Jun 2018

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine perform their first UK show in five years for Robert Smith’s Meltdown

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Hayward Gallery

10:00 am | until Sun 19 Aug 2018

Lee Bul

Lee Bul transforms Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscape

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

7:30 pm | Sat 23 Jun 2018

Suzanne Vega

See one of the most brilliant singer-songwriters of the folk music revival in this show for Meltdown

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Purcell Room

7:45 pm | Sat 23 Jun 2018

And Also The Trees

Turn up and tune in to hear the dark jazz rhythms and poetic lyrics of these post-punk stalwarts

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stories
Placebo perform in Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall as part of Robert Smith's Meltdown
story

Robert Smith’s Meltdown: opening weekend recap
Enjoy some of the sights, sounds and superlatives from the first few days of the festival.
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Cellist and composer Jo Quail
video

Jo Quail’s cinematic performance at Robert Smith’s Meltdown
See footage from the cellist’s appearance at Meltdown as she explains her distinctive sound
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Man Booker live reading in Royal Festival Hall
podcast

Southbank Centre’s Book Podcast
Listen to the first episode of our new podcast series as we look back at past Man Booker Prize winners
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