Jarvis Cocker has announced that Iggy & the Stooges, Motorhead, the Jesus and Mary Chain and The 13th Floor Elevators are amongst the acts set to perform at Meltdown this summer. As previously reported, Cocker is curating this year's event, which takes place on London's South Bank in June and has previously been curated by the likes of Patti Smith, Morrissey, David Bowie and John Peel. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday.
Speaking about the event, the former pulp frontman told The Observer: "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. I'm very proud to be able to present it, but I don't want it to just be all me, me, me; 'This is what I like'. I really want to find ways of getting the audience as involved as I possibly can".
"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. 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'".