British musician FKA twigs will curate next year's Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre. The festival will take place from 10 to 20 June 2027, and FKA twigs will also perform there as headliner. The full programme will be announced in the coming months; according to the press release, it will bring together various musical genres as well as artists from other creative disciplines reflecting her influences. The Quietus ↗
"I'm honoured and excited to be curating Meltdown at Southbank Centre," she said. London, in her own words, has shaped her — from studying at Croydon College, through performing in underground cabaret clubs and dancing until dawn in warehouses in the docks, to singing her operatic songs last year in one of London's biggest arenas. "I want to bring you a piece of all that raised me and still inspires me," she added. The Quietus ↗
Meltdown was founded in 1993, and each year its programme is curated by a different personality. FKA twigs, real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett, will be the 32nd curator; previous curators in this role have included Harry Styles, Little Simz, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones, David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Nile Rodgers, M.I.A., David Bowie and Patti Smith. Her latest albums to date, Eusexua and Eusexua Afterglow, were released in 2025, followed by the Body High Tour, which ended in June. The Irish News ↗
She became known for songs such as Two Weeks from her debut album LP1 and Cellophane from the album Magdalene. Her most recent songs include the title track of the album Eusexua.
FKA twigs at a concert in Berlin in 2015, archive photo. Photo: Andreas Meixensperger / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
FKA twigs to curate London's Meltdown festival 2027
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