Jarvis curates Meltdown festival


Is this some kind of Ice Age III global warming awareness tie-in gig?

Feed the glacier?

"Jarvis Cocker, national treasure and former Pulp frontman, is to curate the Meltdown festival at the South Bank Centre in London this June.

The week-long event, 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.'

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