Meltdown 2010: An Evening of Political Song; the Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve

Meltdown 2010: An Evening of Political Song; the Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve | Live review

Meltdown festival, Southbank Centre, London SE1From politics and cricket to singalongs with blues stomper Seasick Steve, Richard Thompson's passion for folk-based, rootsy music makes for a rousing week on the SouthbankBerets off to Richard Thompson, curator of this year's Meltdown festival, a man rarely seen without one. At the Meltdown Evening of Political Song, Thompson sports this most classically revolutionary item of headgear in dashing countercultural black. He is not, by nature, an overtl...

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23:05 on June 19 2010

Richard Thomspon's Meltdown

Guardian Music — Exclusive backstage photographs from Richard Thompson's Meltdown festival at the Southbank in London, starring: Martha and Rufus Wainwright, Paolo Nutini, Emmylou Harris,... more info

23:05 on June 19 2010

Meltdown 2010: An Evening of Political Song; the Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve | Live review

Guardian Music — Meltdown festival, Southbank Centre, London SE1From politics and cricket to singalongs with blues stomper Seasick Steve, Richard Thompson's passion for folk-based, rootsy... more info

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