Harry Styles Reveals Meltdown Festival Lineup
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- Harry Styles has unveiled his curated lineup for this year's Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre, running 11–21 June, spanning jazz, pop, indie rock, and electronic music.
- Styles will perform a solo concert on 16 June at the Royal Festival Hall, situated within his run of 12 dates at the considerably larger Wembley Stadium.
- Kamasi Washington will play two sets—one focused on his album Fearless Movement, another titled 'Jazz Legends Reimagined'—joined by Ethio-jazz legend Mulatu Astatke, UK drummer Yussef Dayes, and Shabaka, who appears with 'friends' for a collaborative performance.
- Indie highlights include Warpaint's only gig of the year, plus Nilüfer Yanya, Bar Italia, Stephen Fretwell, Getdown Services, and Orlando Weeks (the Maccabees) performing a hybrid music-and-storytelling set.
- Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange) will perform classical music in an ensemble with Adam Tendler, Cæcilie Trier, and Tariq Al-Sabir—an unusual booking for a pop-curated festival bill.
- Electronic offerings include ambient songcraft from Beverly Glenn-Copeland, improvised works by Jon Hopkins, Maddie Ashman, and Leo Abrahams performing together, high-tempo EDM/trance from Australia's Ninajirachi, and a DJ set from James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem).
- Tickets go on sale 9 April for Southbank Centre members and 10 April for the general public; a separate free, family-friendly programme will feature 'a mix of appearances from Styles' favourite artists beyond music.'
Why it matters: London audiences land a string of rare bookings—Warpaint's only gig of the year, a Blood Orange classical ensemble, and Mulatu Astatke's Southbank return—while the Southbank Centre scores a prestige moment by letting a pop star with 12 Wembley dates curate a jazz- and indie-heavy bill around a Royal Festival Hall headline set.
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