Christine And The Queens To Curate Meltdown Festival 2023 At London's Southbank Centre
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Pierre-Ange Carlotti
Christine And The Queens will curate next year's Meltdown Festival.
The event will again take over the Southbank Centre in London, with the innovative Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier following in the footsteps of previous curators Grace Jones, Nile Rodgers, Robert Smith, M.I.A., Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Massive Attack and Ornette Coleman. The French singer, who has recently used the moniker Redcar, commented:
"What an honour to be picked by the fantastical teams of the Meltdown festival to be a curator this year! It’s a tough thing to be a curator. Art wise, recently, my curating was erratic. Visceral. Sometimes regressive, back to the music I listened to when I was a teenager. A life-savior, music. One song to soothe them all. We expect from art to still save us yet we endanger it so much, everywhere. Thinking it should sell and clatter like jewels. Thinking it should be the catchiest shit in less than ten seconds when truly the birth of an emotion takes years in some people. We want it to heal it all but we deprive it of it’s true strength, which is eternity, a cancellation of human time. Now it’s fast, quick, a lot, and never about eternity. Cause eternity is death, too. It’s a cycle of ashes and birth. Over and over again.
"But I digress. Do I? I will actually pick musicians that have some gut-wrenching quality, and I wish for all of us to stroll around in those ten days being rejuvenated by artistic gestures. Discoveries. The time Meltdown takes is quite exquisite, the abundance feels appropriately generous too. We need this for ourselves, art in the city, art for the citizen, collective catharsis, a wonderful purge of the soul. I hope you’ll enjoy this glorious edition and again, long live poetry that burns and musicians crazy and brave enough to keep going - they are shaping the emotions of the future. Let’s thank them all!"
Meltdown Festival features a mix of ticketed shows and free outdoor concerts between June 9 and 18. The first names for the line-up, along with ticket details, will be revealed in the spring.
Earlier in November, Christine And The Queens released their new album, 'Redcar les adorables étoiles'. They'll play The Southbank Centre tonight (November 22) with a one-off special show billed as Christine And The Queens Presents Redcar.
Christine And The Queens Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
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