Harry Styles’ Meltdown

This summer Harry Styles joins a long line of prestigious names, including David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Nick Cave and Patti Smith, as the 31st curator of the annual Meltdown festival at Southbank Centre.

For eleven days in June, the Southbank Centre will present a celebration of the eclectic tastes of the British pop icon, drawing on his broad array of influences from pop, soul, electronic and rock to underground scenes and emerging young British talent – alongside a headline concert at the Royal Festival Hall from Harry Styles himself.

Now in its 31st year, Meltdown is the world’s longest-running artist-curated music festival and every year it brings a thrilling lineup of concerts and parties to venues across the Southbank Centre.

Harry Style's Meltdown Lineup

The lineup for Harry Styles' Meltdown festival so far includes:

Concerts

THU 11 JUNE Warpaint
Royal Festival Hall

FRI 12 JUNE Shabaka & Friends
Queen Elizabeth Hall

FRI 12 JUNE Stephen Fretwell
Purcell Room

SAT 13 JUNE Erika de Casier
Royal Festival Hall

SAT 13 JUNE Fousheé
Queen Elizabeth Hall

SUN 14 JUNE New Young Pony Club
From 7:45pm Purcell Room

SUN 14 JUNE Kamasi Washington: Jazz Legends Reimagined
3pm Royal Festival Hall

SUN 14 JUNE Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement Live
8pm, Royal Festival Hall

SUN 14 JUNE Nilüfer Yanya
8pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall

TUE 16 JUNE Harry Styles*
Royal Festival Hall. Please note that tickets for Harry Styles are allocated as a prize draw. You have until 12pm on Fri 15 May to enter the prize draw. Find out more here.

TUE 16 JUNE Getdown Services
Purcell Room

WED 17 JUNE The Guilty Feminist & Tracey Emin in Conversation
7.30pm at Royal Festival Hall

WED 17 JUNE Mulatu Astatke
Royal Festival Hall

THU 18 JUNE Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Royal Festival Hall

THU 18 JUNE bar italia
Queen Elizabeth Hall

FRI 19 JUNE Devonté Hynes Ensemble
Royal Festival Hall

FRI 19 JUNE Orlando Weeks
Queen Elizabeth Hall

SAT 20 JUNE Yussef Dayes
Royal Festival Hall

SAT 20 JUNE Jon Hopkins with Maddie Ashman and Leo Abrahams
4pm and 8pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall

SUN 21 JUNE Soulwax
From 7:30pm at Royal Festival Hall

Late-night parties

FRI 12 JUNE Ninajirachi
From 11pm in Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer

SAT 20 JUNE James Murphy
From 11pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer

Free gigs & events

THU 11 JUNE futuretense
Southbank Centre’s free gig series, futuretense, makes a move onto the Riverside Terrace stage spotlighting emerging artists and boundary-pushing sounds in an open-air setting.

FRIDAY 12 JUNE Simmer Down x Meltdown & Keep Hush
A special edition of the Southbank Centre’s regular reggae series with Resident Organisation Tomorrow’s Warriors in the Clore Ballroom. In the evening, the Riverside Terrace hosts global dance community Keep Hush, presenting Don’t Keep Hush, a five-hour programme of bass-driven music and collective energy centred around mental health awareness.

SATURDAY 13 JUNE Family Meltdown & Midnight Train
The Clore Ballroom presents a family-focused Meltdown edition of monthly arts workshop Saturday Sessions, themed 'Dad Dancing. Outdoors on the Riverside Terrace there's Riverside Boogie: Meltdown Edition, an open dancefloor for all ages, while Midnight Train delivers a full day into evening of disco, funk, soul and R&B, with DJs and dancefloor moments running into the night.

SUNDAY 14 JUNE Steam Down 
South London's live improvised jazz club Steam Down presents a riverside takeover with live sets of diasporic music, ranging from jazz and funk, to grime and afrobeats.

THURSDAY 18 JUNE  futuretense
futuretense returns to the Riverside Terrace with Joviale and special guests, presenting an immersive, genre-blurring live set that foregrounds experimentation and multidisciplinary performance.

FRIDAY 19 JUNE Push The Button 
London pop club night institution Push The Button brings a high-energy, feel-good party soundtracking the evening. 

SATURDAY 20 JUNE Foundation FM
On the Riverside Terrace FOUNDATION FM Presents Movement, a full-day DJ takeover that focuses on artists with lived experience of displacement and asylum.