Meltdown round-up

Southbank Centre, London"I was on acid when I saw the Kinks for the first time," Ron Sexsmith mutters. Ray Davies – former Kink and current Meltdown curator – slings on a guitar, preparing to accompany the Canadian troubadour on a version of the Kinks 1978 track 'Misfits'. Sexsmith, boyish even now at 47, recalls how Davies's hand seemed to single him out across a crowded Ontario arena all those years ago. He also remembers hallucinating a giant chicken. "It's backstage," quips Davies, who h...

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