Patti Smith

News archive: June 2005

Patti Smith's Meltdown
11th-26th June 2005
South Bank Centre London, UK

Patti Smith has been made artistic director of this year's Meltdown festival, to be held at London's South Bank Centre in June 2005 / BBC: "I want to touch on all aspects of our culture, perhaps with readings from Genet, and I have an idea for Jeremy Irons to read Proust" Read the full article

Photos of Patti & the band during the Meltdown Festival in the gallery

According to Groovevolt, Patti Smith will be the keynote speaker at ROCKRGRL Music Conference 2005, which will be held in Seattle, Washington from November 10-12. Smith will be the guest of honor at the Women of Valor award banquet.

A Meltdown review by The Observer: "Patti has the power"

Another Meltdown interview by The Guardian: "This will be the most social experience of my life," says Patti Smith of curating the South Bank Meltdown festival. "I don't interact with a lot of people; I don't know a lot of famous people. I work very simply. I spend my time with my children and my work. I stay home and listen to opera. But when they asked me to curate the Meltdown, I thought, 'I will now have to totally immerse myself in a way I have never done.' I tend to be insular and opinionated. But for this, I want to, and will, work alongside people. I'll perform myself, but if anyone else needs a bit of backing vocal, clarinet or a shirt ironed, I'll be there."

"Patti's on Meltdown" / an interiew by The London Line

"The revenge of the misfit" / a Meltdown interview by The Times

"Even as a child, I felt like an alien"/ an interview by The Guardian