Jarvis Cocker Announces Names For Meltdown
Published Monday, 30th April, 2007 at 9:21 AM
Jarvis Cocker has revealed the first names set to play the Meltdown event he is curating this Summer at the London South Bank between June 16th-24th.
So far, Iggy & The Stooges, The Jesus and Mary Chain, 13th Floor Elevators and Motorhead have been confirmed as playing the festival. Tickets will be go on sale at 9am this Thursday May 3rd.
In an interview with The Observer, Cocker says: "It's pretty amazing to be able to programme a whole week like this, to get some of your heroes on and get to meet those people as well. Obviously it's a slight ego trip for me."
"Some of it is my favourite things, or things that have had a formative effect on me. At the moment I'm interested in quite loud things. Meltdown starts off with Motorhead, something people probably wouldn't associate with me."
He added, "The first concert I ever played with Pulp was in Rotherham in July 1980. We didn't have many songs of our own so we covered a Motorhead cover version of a Motown song called 'Leaving Here'."
