FKA Twigs announced as Southbank’s Meltdown 2027 curator, with special guests to curate ‘Hometown’

FKA Twigs has been announced as the curator for Southbank’s Meltdown 2027, and there is also an inaugural localised Hometown Meltdown on the way to support grassroots venues across the country.

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The singer, dancer and visual artist will take the reins for 11 days at the London multi-arts centre, and curate a run of performances at the 11-acre site between June 10 and 20.

As well as headlining one of the days herself, Twigs will create a line-up that reflects the diverse influences that shape her own sound, and bring together artists from across musical genres.

O ex‑vencedor do Prêmio Godlike Genius da NME se tornará o 32º curador do Meltdown, seguindo nomes de peso como David Bowie, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Grace Jones, Christine and the Queens, Harry Styles, Nile Rodgers, Robert Smith, David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Anohni, Massive Attack, Little Simz e Jarvis Cocker.

She continued: “The cultural and artistic clash in this city is like no other. Where cultures, sounds, stories and traditions from all over the world meet, collide and transform one another.

I intend to bring you a slice of all that has raised me and continues to inspire me: celebrating the diversity, freedom and creative energy that I believe makes London one of the world’s great capitals of music and the arts.”.

Com o anúncio, FKA Twigs entra na temporada de 2027 do Meltdown, que já inclui apresentações programadas do pianista Lang Lang, da icônica rockera Patti Smith e do compositor Philip Glass.

More information about the line-up and tickets will be announced at a later date.

The first ever Hometown Meltdown is on the way too – a nationwide version of the London Meltdown festival, which will be taking place in grassroots music venues.

Running between December 2026 through to March 2027, the festival will take place at six cities across the country and each span for two days.

Em cada cidade, artistas celebrados da região irão curar e apresentar programas em espaços de base, reunindo artistas locais junto a talentos mais estabelecidos de outras partes do país.

Jamie Cullum, Kelly Lee Owens and The Selecter‘s Pauline Black have already been lined up as curators, and more details about the respective line-ups will be announced at a later date.

Os curadores do Hometown Meltdown e os venues de música de base são.

DECEMBER 12-13 –Kelly Lee Owens for Neuadd Ogwen in Bethesda, Wales.

JANUARY 30-31 – Stewart Lee for The Cornish Bank in Falmouth, England.

13‑14 de fevereiro – Kathryn Joseph para Beat Generator em Dundee, Escócia. 23‑24 – Jamie Cullum para Chinnerys em Southend, Inglaterra.

MARCH 2-3 – Pauline Black for Peggy’s Skylight in Nottingham, England 25-26 – Rhoda Dakar for FORGE Warehouse in Sheffield, England.

Em junho, FKA Twigs lançou um novo single “On Your Mind”, com Lil Yachty – sua primeira música nova de 2026 e a primeira desde que lançou “EUSEXUA”, o álbum número três da NME de 2025 – e sua obra acompanhante “EUSEXUA Afterglow”.

For Meltdown 2026, Harry Styles curated performances from Orlando Weeks, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Soulwax, Bar Italia, Jon Hopkins, Dev Hynes, and more. The run began in June with a performance from Los Angeles’ Warpaint, marking their first gig in nearly two years.

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