Harry Styles Curates Meltdown Festival
Harry Styles will curate the 31st Meltdown Festival, an 11-day event at Southbank Centre drawing from pop, soul, electronic, rock, and underground scenes. The announcement exploded with 2,580 likes and 236 reposts on social media, with Styles himself headlining a concert during the festival. The lineup remains to be announced for the prestigious music curation event.
- The Meltdown Festival is the longest-running artist-curated music festival in the world. - This year's festival, the 31st edition, coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Southbank Centre, the venue that hosts the event. - Harry Styles joins a prestigious list of past curators that includes David Bowie, Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Grace Jones, and Robert Smith of The Cure. - The festival is known for creating unique performance moments, such as the reunion of the New York Dolls in 2004 at the request of curator Morrissey. - While Styles is scheduled to play a record-breaking 12 nights at the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium, his headlining Meltdown performance will be for a much smaller audience at the Southbank Centre's 2,700-seat main auditorium. - The event has been held annually since 1993, with the exceptions of 2006, when the Royal Festival Hall was closed for refurbishment, and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. - The full lineup for the festival, which will run from June 11th to June 21st, is expected to be announced later in the spring.
