{"id":133968,"date":"2025-02-12T06:09:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/12\/little-simz-announced-as-curator-for-londons-meltdown-festival-2025-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T06:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:09:55","slug":"little-simz-announced-as-curator-for-londons-meltdown-festival-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/12\/little-simz-announced-as-curator-for-londons-meltdown-festival-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Simz Announced as Curator for London\u2019s Meltdown Festival\u00a02025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tLittle Simz<\/a> has been announced as the curator of Meltdown Festival for 2025.<\/p>\n

The event, which is held at London\u2019s Southbank Centre<\/a>, is now in its 30th edition and will see the rapper crafting an eclectic bill of music, art and workshops across eleven nights June 12-22. The full lineup is expected to arrive in the spring.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSimz joins a prestigious list of previous curators including the likes of The Cure<\/a>\u2019s Robert Smith, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and most recently, Chaka Khan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m super excited to be the 2025 Meltdown festival curator! My team and I are preparing 10 days of art, music, workshops and more,\u201d Simz said in a statement. \u201cSo many incredible artists have curated this festival, so it\u2019s a true honor to be a part of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to the Southbank Centre for having me. Meltdown 2025 the Simz way is going to be epic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jane Beese, Head of Contemporary Music, Southbank Centre said: \u201cLittle Simz\u2019s ability to forge new genre-defying ideas and her ambition to inspire the next generation of creators aligns with what the Southbank Centre\u2019s artistic program and vision stands for. We\u2019re incredibly excited to witness the lineup she\u2019ll curate and for the power of her great art, leadership and culture to bring people together onsite for our 30th year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival has forged a reputation for staging unique one-off performances over the years. Patti Smith performed her album Horses<\/em> in full for her curation of Meltdown in 2005, while Rahim Redcar \u2014 fka Christine and the Queens \u2014 delivered a two-hour rock-opera show in celebration of his Parano\u00efa, Angels, True Love <\/em>LP in 2023.<\/p>\n

Simz\u2019s new role, meanwhile, follows an illustrious few years in her career. Last summer, the 30-year-old performed on Glastonbury\u2019s Pyramid Stage to glowing reviews, while she won the Mercury Prize for 2021\u2019s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert<\/em>. Outside of music, she has starred in the acclaimed Netflix series Top Boy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Her most recent full-length release, 2022\u2019s No Thank You<\/em>, was accompanied by a short film directed by Gabriel Moses, the designer of the 2025 BRIT Awards trophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Little Simz has been announced as the curator of Meltdown Festival for 2025. The event, which is held at London\u2019s Southbank Centre, is now in its 30th edition and will see the rapper crafting an eclectic bill of music, art and workshops across eleven nights June 12-22. The full lineup is expected to arrive in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}