Meltdown

Meltdown is an annual arts festival held at at London's Southbank Center. Peel was chosen to curate the 1998 event. As well as drawing up the programme, he also broadcast a selection of the music on his shows.

The eight nights of the event coincided with the 1998 World Cup, but the organizers installed screens to show matches.. According to the BBC site, this "meant that one night, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci had to wait until after 11pm to take the stage whilst England lost to Argentina. (Nonetheless, Peel was happy because Liverpool's Michael Owen scored, so the match wasn't all bad!)."

Lineup
(Compiled with help from the official programme posted at the Songs To Learn And Sing blog.)


 * 20 June
 * Autechre, Plaid, Broadcast, Plone


 * 21 June
 * FSK, The King, Trash Project, Project Dark


 * 30 June


 * Cornership, Gorky's Zygtic Mynci,
 * Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited


 * 1 July


 * Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Delgrados,
 * Beau Hunks Play Laurel & Hardy Film Music,
 * Ardal O'Hanlon, Jeremy Hardy


 * 2 July
 * Culture, U-Brown, Rankin' Joe & Joseph Cotton
 * Ivor Cutler
 * The Leopards, Adventures In Stereo. Nectarine No.9, The Secret Goldfish
 * Extreme Noise Terror, Merzbow, CCCC, Aube, Tetsuo Furudate, Sensorband, Kasper T Toeplitz, Russell Haswell, Pita, Dror Feiler


 * 3 July
 * Propellerheads, XOL Dog 400


 * 4 July
 * Jesus & Mary Chain, Suicide, Add N To X


 * 5 July
 * Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon (Blur) & Silver Apples, Half Man Half Biscuit

Shows

 * 30 June 1998: Broadcast, Plaid, Plone, Autechre (recorded 20 July, Warp Records Night)
 * 01 July 1998: Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Delgrados
 * 02 July 1998: Culture, Blood & Fire Sound System
 * 07 July 1998: Blur & Silver Apples (recorded 5 July)
 * 08 July 1998: Suicide, Jesus & Mary Chain (recorded 4 July)
 * 23 July 1998: Add N To X (recorded 4 July), Half Man Half Biscuit (recorded 5 July)
 * 18 August 1998: Spiritualized featuring Sonic Youth (recorded 1 July)

Festive Fifty

 * 1998 Festive Fifty
 * Spritualized: Oh Happy Day (live from Meltdown 98) #22

Links

 * Wikipedia: Meltdown (festival)
 * Official Site
 * NME: Strange Fruit: Blur Duo Join Silver Apples At Meltdown