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Tell us who you want to curate Meltdown to win Elizabeth Fraser tickets
July, 25th 2012
We always enjoy talking about potential Meltdown directors so who do you think should curate the festival?
We've teamed up with Spotify and Soundrop to offer you and three friends the chance to see Elizabeth Fraser from a box in Royal Festival Hall on Monday 6 August. These are some of the hottest seats of the festival so these tickets are worth their weight in gold!
Plus, Spotify have given us a Six-month subscription for Spotify Premium to give away so you can listen to all the artists appearing at Meltdown to your hearts content.
To be in with a chance to win here's what you need to:
1. Enter our Soundrop room here
2. Choose an artist that you’d like to curate Meltdown and use the search box to find them
3. Add your favourite of their tracks to the playlist by clicking on the + symbol
Deadline for entries is 3 August 2012, winners will be chosen at random and notified by email.
What is Soundrop?
Soundrop is an app for Spotify users, and is a crowd based social music hangout where you can listen with friends, vote up your favorite music and chat about it. Find out more
By JEBH // August, 21st 2012 // Report this comment
Siouxsie Sioux. That would be my dream
By Jördis // August, 13th 2012 // Report this comment
Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam Robert Plant Jack White
By Clive // August, 12th 2012 // Report this comment
Kate Bush, Marc Almond, Siouxsie Sioux, Scissor Sisters
By Ale // August, 10th 2012 // Report this comment
maravillosa!!
By Ian Kettle // August, 7th 2012 // Report this comment
Prince would be a dream, he would bring an amazing line-up and the mood would be like no other year!
By DAVE YEATES // August, 7th 2012 // Report this comment
John Lydon would be a fantastic curator. As would Jools Holland and Damon Albarn. Another great idea would be Bjork.
By alex // August, 6th 2012 // Report this comment
I think Siouxsie Sioux would be an ideal curator for Meltdown.
By Padraig O'Neill // August, 6th 2012 // Report this comment
Ivo Watts-Russell the original founder of 4AD, Pete Murphy of Bauhaus, Alan Rankine from the Associates, Danielle Dax, Howard Devoto of Magazine. Please Liz come back to George St Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh it would be brilliant to come full circle from that first big gig in 84 with the Cocteaus,
By Marka // August, 6th 2012 // Report this comment
SIOUXSIE SIOUX
By 5D // August, 6th 2012 // Report this comment
SIOUXSIE!!! or... Kate Bush, Martin Gore, Kevin Shields, Robert Smith.
By Dag Nordbrenden // August, 5th 2012 // Report this comment
Brian Eno, Pet Shop Boys, Joni Mitchell, Diamanda Galas
By SinisterTorch // August, 5th 2012 // Report this comment
Siouxsie Sioux!!!! Stephin Merritt Scott Walker Morrissey
By Daniel // August, 4th 2012 // Report this comment
Diamanda Galás, Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell... on the other hand, Laetitia Sadier or, I don't know someone else from another countries besides the UK and US, gosh
By Daniel // August, 4th 2012 // Report this comment
Diamanda Galás, Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell... on the other hand, Laetitia Sadier or, I don't know someone else from another countries besides the UK and US, gosh
By Daniel // August, 4th 2012 // Report this comment
Diamanda Galás, Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell... on the other hand, Laetitia Sadier or, I don't know someone else from another countries besides the UK and US, gosh.
By Daniel // August, 4th 2012 // Report this comment
Diamanda Galás, Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell... on the other hand, Laetitia Sadier or, I don't know someone else from another countries besides the UK and US, gosh.
By Rhys // August, 2nd 2012 // Report this comment
Soundrop link doesn't work :( - PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp would be my choices!!
By Martin Bainbridge // August, 1st 2012 // Report this comment
Tennant / Lowe
By Lara Gisborne // August, 1st 2012 // Report this comment
Couldn't make the competition work. Kate Bush.
By D LUCAS // August, 1st 2012 // Report this comment
Please could we have mr fyfe dangerfield, or kate bush or david bowie or the animal collective? p.s my random security check word is Hole, but not sure they are still together :)
By D LUCAS // August, 1st 2012 // Report this comment
Please could we have mr fyfe dangerfield, or kate bush or david bowie or the animal collective? p.s my random security check word is Hole, but not sure they are still together :)
By Sarah-Louise Benjamin // August, 1st 2012 // Report this comment
It doesn't work!! I would say Kate Bush, Marianne Faithfull, Patrick Wolf, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Maxwell, Bjork, The Prodigy, Maxi Jazz or Brett Anderson
By Lily // August, 1st 2012 // Report this comment
Second the votes for Kate Bush or Jack White.
By Franco Rizzello // July, 31st 2012 // Report this comment
The link doesn't work for me either, my suggestion would be Kate Bush, song of choice "Lake Thaoe" from the album '50 Words For Snow'.
By Jacqueline Mujico // July, 31st 2012 // Report this comment
Kate Bush, Lou Reed or Jack White.
By O Mono // July, 31st 2012 // Report this comment
Spotify doesn't like where I live. Mark Van Hoen, today's favourite is Laughing Stars At NIght.
By DAVID PUGH // July, 30th 2012 // Report this comment
robert fripp
By maypo // July, 30th 2012 // Report this comment
brian eno
By Magdalena Dudziec // July, 30th 2012 // Report this comment
Tom Waits... or Bjork... oh actually just hit me, Aphex Twin I think would be my favourite!
By Sue Tiffany // July, 30th 2012 // Report this comment
-can't open the competition link, but I'd love David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, Nick Cave, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey or Mary Margaret O'Hara to let us hear their vision.
By John Montague // July, 30th 2012 // Report this comment
DAVID BOWIE
By Ilko Batakliev // July, 30th 2012 // Report this comment
Siouxsie Sioux.
By sean barr // July, 27th 2012 // Report this comment
Not working for me either-in London. Joni mItchell, Tina weymouth, Tom Waits,
By jez riley french // July, 26th 2012 // Report this comment
ps. one reason the links might not be working for me is that i'm in Japan right now & will be flying back for the elizabeth fraser show on the 7th - it'd be great to still be entered into the draw but it does seem there are some problems with the soundrop site for folks elsewhere too.
By jez riley french // July, 26th 2012 // Report this comment
soundrop link opens but there are no options for searching or completing the entry methods - which is a shame as watching Liz from the box would be great ! my suggestions for curatorship would be: elizabeth fraser herself joanna newsom laetitia sadier / tim gane / stereolab joni mitchell joana molina chris watson
By richard downes // July, 26th 2012 // Report this comment
the soundrop rooom doesn't seem to work for me but i'd appreciate curatorship being given to lee scratch perry, donal lunny or regular particpant hal wilner
By hugo wuyts // July, 25th 2012 // Report this comment
Brian Eno; Julie Tippets; Joe McPhee; Neneh Cherry; Billy Bragg; Evan Parker; Tim Berne; Yo La Tengo; Kevin Ayers; John Cale; Jane Birkin; Neil Young; Julian Cope;
By Adriano spinosa // July, 25th 2012 // Report this comment
Tim Gane
By jeffrey portman // July, 25th 2012 // Report this comment
Tim Gane.