Jarvis Cocker Curates Meltdown Festival
Friday March 2, 2007
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Jarvis
Cocker, national treasure and former Pulp frontman, is to curate the
Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London this June.
The
week-long festival, previously directed by artists as diverse as David
Bowie and Louis Andriessen, will feature concerts, performances and
visual art chosen by Cocker. Although it was too early to reveal
details yesterday, he hinted at an eclectic range of offerings.
"I
think the main thing is to mix things up; things that maybe shouldn't
go together," he said. "I'm hoping to get a weird mix of contemporary
things and revivals of old stuff; and as much as possible that involves
audience participation to a degree. I'm hoping to get some film stuff
together. There will high culture there and low culture. Some very low."
[this is good] I went to the Forest of No Return gig last night. Despite the technical hitches that caused an hours’ delay to the start of the show, it was absolutely brilliant. Highlight for me was, I think, Nick Cave singing Hi Diddle Dee Dee from Pinocchio. Genius.
I have a list of what was performed. Let me know if you’d like it.