Robert Smith  of The Cure will curate Meltdown 2018.  Meltdown is the UK’s longest-running artist-curated music festival.

One of popular music’s defining bands, The Cure took the ‘alternative rock’ genre mainstream around the world and garnered numerous awards including a Brit Award for Best British Band, an MTV Icon Award, a Q Inspiration Award and NME’s Godlike Genius Award. Smith has also been presented with an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.

65daysofstatic, The Psychedelic Furs + The Church, The Notwist, Placebo, The Libertines, Alcest, Manic Street Preachers, Deftones, Mogwai, Nine Inch Nails, MONO, My Bloody Valentine