Harry Styles Welcomes James Murphy, Dev Hynes To Meltdown

Harry Styles will host an eclectic array of musicians as part of the annual artist-curated Meltdown Festival, which will be held June 11-21 at London’s Southbank Centre. Styles will perform on a date to be announced, while LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy will DJ on June 20, while Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes will perform “sublime new compositions” with his own Ensemble, featuring Tariq Al-Sabir, Adam Tendler, and Cæcilie Trier.

Styles has been vocal about the influence of Murphy and LCD Soundsystem on his latest album, Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally, telling BBC Radio 1 that he saw the group perform twice in recent years and felt “joyous. I think the inspiration from them came of like, oh, that’s how I want to feel when I’m on stage.’ And then that kind of led to the kind of music I was making.”

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Also booked to appear are Yussef Dayes, Jon Hobkins with Maddie Ashman and Leo Abrahams, former Sons of Kemet/The Comet Is Coming musician Shabaka, revered Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Warpaint, Nilüfer Yanya, Erika de Casier, Ninajirachi, bar italia, Foushée, Stephen Fretwell, Getdown Services and Orlando Weeks.

In addition, saxophonist Kamasi Washington will perform both is 2023 album Fearless Movement in its entirety as well as a set featuring the works of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Previous Meltdown curators have included David Bowie, Patti Smith, Scott Walker, Ornette Coleman and late BBC DJ John Peel.

This year’s Meltdown is part of Southbank Centre’s 75th birthday celebration, which will include Dua Lipa’s previously announced curation of the London Literature Festival from Oct. 21-Nov. 1.

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