No the lead singer for the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s has not finally been sectioned. We are of course talking about this years’ Meltdown Festival on the South Bank, running from 1-12 August and curated by Anthony of Anthony and the Johnsons.
This year the final lineup includes Lou Reed, Hercules and Love Affair, Matmos and Joan as Policewoman. More details below:
Running since 1993, Meltdown each year invites a different cultural figure to act as director of the event and pick the performers of their choosing.
This year sees Antony create a line-up of twelve days of music, debate and performance that reflects his interests, influences and passions.
Having begun his career in the New York underground scene, Antony emerged with Antony and the Johnsons in 1998 and shot to prominence with the Mercury Prize-winning album I am a Bird Now. Since then critical acclaim has followed each of his projects including the albums The Crying Light and Swanlights. His performances have ranged from collaborations with symphony orchestras and performance artists to last summer’s The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, directed by Robert Wilson.
The listings are as follows:
Diamanda Galás: The Hour Will Come
Wednesday 1 August, Royal Festival Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £30.00 £22.50
Planningtorock & Light Asylum
Wednesday 1 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets £15 £10
Selda
Thursday 2 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £15.00 £12.50
Laurie Anderson: Dirtday!
Friday 3 August, Royal Festival Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £30 £22.50 £15
Joan As Policewoman & Julia Kent & Matteah Baim
Friday 3 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £17.50 £12.50
Diamanda Galás: screening of Schrei 27 and lecture
Friday 3 August, Purcell Room, 7pm
Tickets: £10
CocoRosie featuring Rajasthan Roots & TEZ: We Are On Fire
+ Yasmine
+ Jessica 6
Saturday 4 August, Royal Festival Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £25 £20 £15
Myrninerest & Cyclobe & Derek Jarman films
Albion – Hypnagogue – Ghost: Hallucinatory Queer British Paganism
Saturday 4 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £20.00 £17.50
Cleopatra; Not the Usual Passion Assigned to A Woman
A Tea with Janet Suzman, Kim Cattrall and Jude Kelly.
Sunday 5 August, Purcell Room, 2pm
Tickets: £15
Marina Abramović: Lecture for Women
Sunday 5 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5pm
Tickets: £15 £10
Antony and the Ohnos: A Celebration of Yoshito and Kazuo Ohno
with Antony and The Johnsons, Yoshito Ohno, Johanna Constantine, William Basinski, “Mr. O’s Book of The Dead” film screening
Sunday 5 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £30 £25 £20
Elizabeth Fraser
Monday 6 & Tuesday 7 August, Royal Festival Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £40.00 £32.50 £25.00
Matmos
+ o F F Love
Monday 6 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £20 £15
Buffy Sainte Marie: A Multimedia Life
Lecture and Q&A
Monday 6 August, Purcell Room, 8:30pm
Tickets: £10
Hercules and Love Affair
Featuring Antony and John Grant
Monday 6 August, Priceless London Wonderground, 8pm
Tickets: £25
Buffy Sainte-Marie in Concert
Tuesday 7 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £27.50 £22.50
Joey Arias: Strange Fruit
The songs of Billie Holiday
Wednesday 8 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £20 £15
Marc Almond performs Marc and the Mambas’ Torment and Toreros
Thursday 9 August, Royal Festival Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £27.50 £25.00 £22.50
Lou Reed
Friday 10 August, Royal Festival Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £65 £55 £45
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black + Tenderloin
Friday 10 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £15.00 £12.50
Kembra Pfahler: Availablism and Anti-Naturalism
& A Conversation with Claywoman
Saturday 11 August, Purcell Room, 7pm
Tickets: £10
Charles Atlas and Antony and the Johnsons: TURNING (film premiere)
Saturday 11 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £20 £17.50
Hal Willner: Freedom Riders
With Special Guests
Sunday 12 August, Royal Festival Hall, 7:30pm
Tickets: £40 £32.50 £25
William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops
With London Contemporary Orchestra
Sunday 12 August, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Tickets: £20 £17.50
