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14 – 22 June 2008
In 2008 one of the most influential groups of the past 20 years took control of Southbank Centre’s Meltdown festival – the first time a band had done so in this prestigious festival’s 15 year history. Massive Attack’s era-defining music has provided the soundtrack for a generation. Their instinctive embrace of technology, groundbreaking use of live visuals and distinctly dystopian vision has had a pervasive influence on contemporary culture. The Meltdown programme for 2008 gave us a fascinating insight into the aesthetic, stylistic, thematic, political and musical influences that drives the band. Highlights included a very rare live appearance by mythic, proto-trance collective Gong; the first UK performance since 1980 by revered Japanese ‘technopop’ pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra; the Reggae Acoustic Songbook, featuring unplugged performances by Johnny Clarke, Earl 16, Prince Malachai and Massive Attack collaborator Horace Andy; live music from Mercury Music Award-winning band Elbow; peerless international diva Grace Jones and a unique performance by Heritage Orchestra of Vangelis’ majestic, glacial soundtrack to dystopian classic Blade Runner.
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