http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/festivals-series/ray-davies-meltdown
Interesting line up:
Ray Davies & BandFriday 10 June Royal Festival Hall
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown + The Legendary Pink DotsFriday 10 JuneQueen Elizabeth Hall
Roger McGough & special guestsFriday 10 JunePurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
The FugsSaturday 11 JuneQueen Elizabeth Hall
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam BandSaturday 11 JuneThe Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall
Yo La Tengo: Reinventing the WheelSunday 12 JuneRoyal Festival Hall
Terry Jones & Michael Palin In ConversationMonday 13 JuneQueen Elizabeth Hall
Michael Eavis: Glastonbury LifeMonday 13 JunePurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Alan Price SetTuesday 14 JuneQueen Elizabeth Hall
Nick Lowe & special guestsWednesday 15 JuneRoyal Festival Hall
John Cooper Clarke & John Otway and Wild Willy BarrettWednesday 15 JuneQueen Elizabeth Hall
London Sinfonietta: Birtwistle & Maxwell DaviesThursday 16 JuneQueen Elizabeth Hall
A Tribute to Tony WilsonThursday 16 JunePurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Madness Friday 17 JuneRoyal Festival Hall
Ben Waters: Boogie4StuFriday 17 JunePurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Sonics + WireSaturday 18 JuneRoyal Festival Hall
Peter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the Sixties and BeyondSaturday 18 JuneQueen Elizabeth Hall
Lydia Lunch: Big Sexy NoiseSaturday 18 JunePurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Ray Davies & London Philharmonic Orchestra with the Crouch End Festival Chorus Sunday 19 JuneRoyal Festival Hall
― Tom D (Tom D.), Monday, 28 March 2011 14:19 (fourteen years ago)
The Sonics + Wire
...as in the Seattle sixties band and Wire?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 March 2011 14:22 (fourteen years ago)
I assume so!
― Tom D (Tom D.), Monday, 28 March 2011 14:23 (fourteen years ago)
Interesting collection of older artists, says old guy me. But does Davies listen to anyone under the age of 40 though?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 March 2011 14:26 (fourteen years ago)
I don't know how much the curators of these events have to do with picking the acts, or whether they just stick their name on it
― Tom D (Tom D.), Monday, 28 March 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)
Agreed. I'm not sure Ornette Coleman would have had much to do with some of his picks.
Also I think it's written into every curator's contract that they must pick Yo La Tengo.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 28 March 2011 14:39 (fourteen years ago)
in this case, tho, it makes sense -- ylt are huge kinks fans, and have played with davies before.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 March 2011 14:40 (fourteen years ago)
for a minute there I was wondering how Tom was able to predict Davies' mental state in 3 months time.
― a SB-in' artist that been in the game for a minute (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:01 (fourteen years ago)
― curmudgeon, Monday, March 28, 2011 10:26 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
he's 66 so i mean, good for him for being hip to musicians 25 years younger than him even if he's not up on even newer stuff
― corkslovetoscrew (some dude), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)
So maybe these are acts someone figured out that Ray Davies likes? May try to figure this out later myself.
I did the same initial double-take re seeing the phrase "Ray Davies' Meltdown'...Thought it was something involving his brother.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)
call me naive but i thought that curating a festival like this meant precisely that picking the performers is what they're doing?
― corkslovetoscrew (some dude), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)
i'm sure it's more a of a collab with the festival organizers -- davies comes in with some names, they see who's available, etc.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)
from the Guardian:
Davies said "the ideas I have are very ambitious," and talked about how the Southbank Centre's artistic director Jude Kelly and senior music programmer Jane Beese were working with him to his reflect his original vision – "and I wanted it to reflect our culture through the years."
from another article:
Davies, 66, said Meltdown 2011 would be "a bridge between the past, present and future".
"I am thrilled to be asked to suggest what I hope will be a diverse programme, particularly as it marks the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain," he added.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:45 (fourteen years ago)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:49 (fourteen years ago)
― tylerw, Monday, March 28, 2011 2:42 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
obviously there's gonna be compromise and matters of budget and availability, but the way things like Meltdown or ATP tend to be promoted give me the impression that they're not also just throwing a bunch of other acts the curator hasn't heard of or doesn't like onto the bill, or if they are don't want that to be widely known.
― corkslovetoscrew (some dude), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)
oh yeah, definitely.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:55 (fourteen years ago)
id guess he likes / knows all these
prob not hugely into notated music but maxwell d / birtwistle are the most known famouse english names of his generation so
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:56 (fourteen years ago)
Current 93 are now added to the line-up and I'd be very surprised if Ray Davies has ever heard of them so
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)
It's possible, they've been around for 30 years
― Tom D (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)
yeah I thought it was awesome that Ray digs the Pink Dots, and C93 isn't that far off.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)
C93 got a lot of press in recent years so see no reason why ray wouldn't dig it
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)