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Post by Marwood on Oct 30, 2019 23:13:25 GMT
Not sure why this has been announced so far in advance, but Grace Jones has been announced as the curator of next years Meltdown: I like one or two of her songs but this announcement has not filled me with excitement as to who will be playing...
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Post by floorshow on Oct 31, 2019 10:13:39 GMT
She made her live comeback at the Massive Attack curated Meltdown in 2008. She's a good choice - there'll be multi-media type stuff rather than just 10 gigs. She covers gospel, disco, reggae, dub, new wave and techno so there'll be some decent variety in who gets booked. Sly & Robbie are almost certainties and will be a good night. Grace is always good and will surely play. In other Meltdown news, I'm in the Cure's Meltdown film and am willing to sign any copies on request.
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Post by floorshow on Oct 31, 2019 10:14:26 GMT
She's just as likely to flounce and pull out
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Post by Xanderl on Nov 7, 2019 12:49:22 GMT
Now officially announced, and according to the Guardian the dates are 12-21 June.
Just hope its as memorable as this Grace Jones meltdown
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Post by catcat100 on Feb 10, 2020 12:29:45 GMT
First acts now announced.
Grace Jones and Solange seem to be the big names so far. Peaches, Lee scratch Perry also look Good. Overall a good lineup so far.
Still a couple of RFH nights still to be announced, half of QEH announced and nothing so far announced for purcell so hopefully a few more Good acts to follow.
First tickets on sale this week.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 10, 2020 12:43:18 GMT
It’s a good job I’m skint this week as the only thing in that lineup that I’d be bothered about booking tickets for is Peaches and I haven’t been that bothered about seeing her in the past so I’ll probably leave that and see what else gets announced.
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Post by floorshow on Feb 10, 2020 13:48:00 GMT
Grace'll be great but I've seen her a few times now. There'll be a lot of love in the room for Jimmy Cliff - could be tempted with that.
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Post by floorshow on Feb 10, 2020 13:50:06 GMT
Saw Lee 'Scratch' Perry at Meltdown back in 2003. He shook the hand of everyone in the front row. Except me, he waved a stick at me :/
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Post by Xanderl on Apr 7, 2020 18:42:09 GMT
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Post by floorshow on Apr 8, 2020 0:21:41 GMT
They should do 2 next year, squeeze a second one into August. Be a shame to miss out on the 'guess who' anticipation/moaning.
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Post by floorshow on Apr 23, 2022 8:25:00 GMT
They've just put up side stalls standing tickets for Grace Jones, only a handful but a bargain for 60 quid and pretty much overlooking the stage
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Post by catcat100 on Jun 11, 2022 22:39:49 GMT
A bass heavy start for me this year with a solid adrian sherwood set on Friday but didn't quite hit all the right buttons.
Peaches tonight on the other hand was quite fantastic, slipping quite seamlessly into my very broad top 5 gigs of all time. Mixing up spectacle and music to produce a bouncy 2 hours of pure joy including 15 mins of Celine Dion not to be missed.
Hot Chip and Grace Jones planned for next week which I'm very much looking forward to.
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Post by floorshow on Jun 20, 2022 17:31:12 GMT
I went to the Grace finale last night. She's still an absolute force of nature, it's insane that she's 74 now - it just doesn't compute. She started really strong, as the set goes on, she slowly drifts into more of of an MC role. By the end she's sitting down with wine and a cigar, chatting instead of singing. Still awesome, just not as intense as her previous Meltdown back in the late 00s.
(Dreadful bucketlist crowd!).
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Post by floorshow on Nov 22, 2022 18:42:55 GMT
2023 curator announced and it's Christine & The Queens.
Sounds good, no idea what to expect but fingers Xd for Jehnny Beth one night.
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Post by catcat100 on Nov 23, 2022 0:50:57 GMT
Have to agree with no idea what to expect but sounds good.
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Post by Marwood on Mar 13, 2023 14:42:01 GMT
First shows announced: Christine and the Queens twice, Django Django,Yemi Alade, Warpaint, Kokoroko, Oxlade, Sigur Ros, serpentwithfeet, Let’s Eat Grandma and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
I stopped my membership when lockdown started and apart from CATQ and Sigur Ros, there’s not much there that I’m interest in tbh so I doubt I’ll be renewing it just yet.
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Post by floorshow on Mar 14, 2023 10:46:35 GMT
Yeah, nothing for me yet. Think they reveal the whole bill in 2 or 3 stages so fingers crossed.
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Post by Marwood on Jun 19, 2023 9:20:14 GMT
I saw just the two shows in this years festival: Johnny Jewel with Zola Jesus that I thoroughly enjoyed (although both sets were brief) and Christine and the Queens last night, which was certainly different: a performance of the latest album in full which wasn’t what I was expecting, so as I haven’t heard the album yet I didn’t have a clue about what was happening a lot of the time but there were some spectacular moments (it was very French, I think a fair bit of it got lost in translation, to me anyway)
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Post by catcat100 on Jan 29, 2024 14:18:18 GMT
Chaka Khan just announced for 2024, apparently celebrating 50 years in showbiz.
Bit similar to recent curators, Grace Jones & Nile Rogers but she must have loads of contacts so could be some interesting names coming up. She's been doing a few collaborations recently so might get some of those.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 2, 2024 22:05:57 GMT
I’ll wait to see who is announced but I’m not over excited about this (mainly because I could only name one Chaka Khan song if anyone asked me and didn’t know she was still going)
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