Vintage at Southbank Centre, Friday 29 Sunday 31 July 2011

6 June 2011 ‘UK’S BEST NEW FESTIVAL’ TRANSFORMS THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL INTO A MULTI-VENUE VINTAGE PLAYGROUND FOR LONDON’S MOST UPLIFTING AND STYLISH...
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6 June 2011

‘UK’S BEST NEW FESTIVAL’ TRANSFORMS THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL INTO A MULTI-VENUE VINTAGE PLAYGROUND FOR LONDON’S MOST UPLIFTING AND STYLISH PARTY THIS SUMMER Vintage at Southbank Centre, Friday 29 – Sunday 31 July 2011 www.vintageatsouthbankcentre.co.uk •

Celebrating 7 decades of British cool: the music, dance, fashion, food, art, design and film from the 1920s to the 1980s



Music line-up to span 8 decade-specific nightclubs and featuring unique performances by soul legend Percy Sledge, electronics pioneer Thomas Dolby and 60s icon Sandie Shaw



‘Soundtrack of Their Lives’ catwalk shows with Jo Wood, Pearl & Daisy Lowe and Sue Tilley



150 DJs, including Norman Jay, Greg Wilson, Craig Charles, A Guy Called Gerald and Bip Ling, taking you on a journey through the most influential venues and sounds in the history of UK dance culture



One of the world’s most exciting Vintage Marketplaces and pop-up ‘High Street’ with outlets including Benefit, Cath Kidston and Horrockses

Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway bring their award-winning Vintage, UK’s Best New Festival as voted for in the 2010 Festival Awards, to Southbank Centre from 29 – 31 July 2011 as part of the Festival of Britain 60th anniversary celebrations with MasterCard. Over three days and nights, Vintage at Southbank Centre will treat one of the world’s greatest pieces of mid-century architecture to a 60th birthday suit. The Royal Festival Hall will be dressed like you have never seen it before, its six levels transformed into a multi-venue playground where,

over 13 hours each day (from 12pm to 1am), pass holders can learn the dances of the decades, take in over 70 live performances, boogie along to the tunes of 150 DJs, enjoy exclusive catwalk shows and decade specific make-overs, sample Vintage food and cocktails, shop at one of world’s most exciting Vintage marketplaces, and get style hunted as Vintage at Southbank Centre calls out for people to glam up. Wayne Hemingway, said: “Vintage at Southbank Centre will be a glamorous and cool antidote to festivals in a field, the emphasis being on head-turning style. Whether your thing is swing, rockabilly, mod, soul, funk, disco, ska, film, art or design, or if you just want to dress up and get an authentic make-over for a day, Vintage at Southbank Centre is a sensual delight, a big dressing-up box, a collector’s dream and joyous creative feast.” Each evening the Royal Festival Hall’s main auditorium will host a differently themed Vintage Revue – some of the world’s iconic performers coming together with contemporary talent to create a one-off genre-specific revue. Friday’s Electronic Phuture (29 July) will feature new and old interpretations of the groundbreaking genre with performances by electronic pioneers Thomas Dolby, Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode and Heaven 17, alongside hotly tipped new act Mirrors; on Saturday the Soul Revue (30 July) will present an array of Soul legends, including the only UK appearance of legendary Atlantic Records icon Percy Sledge, plus Booker T performing soul classics with an orchestral backing; while Sunday’s Hit Parade (31 July) will celebrate British hits from the past seven decades, re-imagined and performed by an array of guest vocalists, including Sandie Shaw and David McAlmont, with an orchestral backing. More names to be announced. Throughout each day and evening, The Royal Festival Hall will play host to 8 Vintage nightclubs, immersing visitors in the dance and club scenes of seven decades of British cool. Each club venue will offer free dance lessons led by professional instructors so visitors can learn the Foxtrot, Jive, a Northern Soul backdrop or whatever gets them grooving, before trying out the moves in the Vintage clubs. With stylists and barbers on hand, ticket holders will also be able to get free decade-specific hair and beauty makeovers. The venues will not only transport visitors to the music and style of the decades, but also – via their taste buds – to the eating and drinking habits of days gone by with authentically conceived Vintage food and cocktails served throughout the day and evening. Club highlights include: •

Style Studio pays homage to some of the greatest 70s Disco clubs and club DJs there ever were with guest sets by Greg Wilson, Horse Meat Disco, Disco Bloodbath, The Revenge and Joey Negro.



The Torch offers an unrivalled weekend of 1930s and 1940s entertainment, including The Jive Aces who will be launching their new album at Vintage at Southbank Centre; the UK debut of the Czechoslovakian swing sensation Ondrej Havelka & His Melody Makers; and Glenn Miller’s nephew directing the 18-piece The John Miller Swing Band.



The Warehouse celebrates the origins of 80s rave culture in a previously unused space deep in the bowels of Southbank Centre with DJ sets by Norman Jay, Terry Farley, Andrew Weatherall and A Guy Called Gerald.



Let It Rock explores the unpredictable journey of 50s Rock ‘n Roll culture with live music from The Jim Jones Revue and Jools Holland favourite Big Joe Louis, as well as DJ sets from Jay Strongman and award-winning Lady Luck Club.



Leisure Lounge brings together hipster beats of swinging London, Exotica, Easy Listening and the lighter side of life with live music from Guilty Pleasures’ Sean Rowley celebrating The Joy of Music.



Soul Casino recreates the sounds, style and smells of the classic club scenes from Wigan Casino and the Blackpool Mecca Ballrooms with DJ sets by Craig Charles, Colin Curtis and Andy Smith.



Penthouse honours three of London’s most culturally influential night spots, the Blitz Club, Wag Club and Le Beat Route with DJs Chris Sullivan and Mark Moore.



Shh! presents Charleston, concealed cocktails and cabaret from the 1920s Prohibition era

Other highlights of the Vintage wonderland experience in the Royal Festival Hall include Soundtrack of Their Lives catwalk shows with Jo Wood, Pearl & Daisy Lowe and Leigh Bowery and Lucian Freud muse Sue Tilley, presenting their personal take on the fashion and music that has inspired their lives and careers; the North / South Divide Pub featuring pub-themed happenings encouraging friendly rivalry between Northern and Southern festival goers, with music and entertainment from The Voguettes, Bip Ling and Jonny Woo’s Gay Bingo Crew; creative Vintage workshops ranging from ‘make do and mend’ and screen printing, to 20s style hat trimming and pom-pom making; a journey Down the Back of the Sofa with Charity Shop DJ and Derby Museum, featuring a specially built set from our inglorious domestic pasts with record players and radios, gramophones and ghetto blasters, Smash Hits and broken Action Men, and music courtesy of our charity shops; and two Vintage restaurants, Skylon, which is getting a 20s Cabaret-style makeover, and a new dining experience in the Royal Festival Hall overlooking the The Clore Ballroom. Outside, between the Hungerford Bridge and Jubilee Gardens, ticket holders will be able to get exclusive access to the Vintage Marketplace from 10am, an hour before it opens to the general public. The Vintage Marketplace assembles over 250 of the finest purveyors of vintage clothes and accessories, as well as mid-century modern homewares, records and music memorabilia and upcycled ephemera. Other Vintage attractions across the Southbank Centre site include pop-up hair & make-up parlours and catwalk shows, including the Best in Show Parade, where the most fashion-savvy festival goers, as spotted by the Vintage style hunters, will gather for a one-off parade; The Chap Olympiad, Britain’s most eccentric sporting event, where you can enjoy umbrella jousting and sandwich tossing; the Peter Blake CCA Art Bus, a mobile art work and art gallery by legendary Sir Peter Blake; the worst art ever made in the Bad Art Salon; sound systems and live music across the site, including the final stage of the Mayor’s Rhythm of London Busking competition; and a 3-day extravaganza of 20th century film classics, iconic TV with free screenings of The Avengers and a Vintage Bus which will present a complementary programme with the BFI Southbank, curated by director Stephen Woolley. The BFI weekender will focus on the loveable British rogue, with films starring Terry Thomas, Alec Guinness and Oliver Reed; and from behind the camera Ken Russell will present screening of The Devils and Tommy.

The award-winning Vintage concept, developed by the Hemingway family and the HemingwayDesign team, was launched in August 2010 at the highly acclaimed Vintage at Goodwood event. It is one of a number of differently-themed weekends as part of Southbank Centre’s Festival of Britain 60th anniversary celebrations with MasterCard (22 April to 4 September 2011), a four-month long festival paying homage to the landmark 1951 Festival and the South Bank Exhibition, situated on what is now Southbank Centre. For further PRESS information, including full listings, please contact Helena Zedig, Press Manager, on 020 7921 0847 / [email protected] or Lara Delaney, Press Coordinator, on 020 7921 0888 / [email protected]. For further information on Vintage at Southbank Centre visit

www.vintageatsouthbankcentre.co.uk Watch a preview film for Vintage at Southbank Centre, at www.youtube.com/user/TheVintageFestival Watch a preview film for Southbank Centre’s Festival of Britain anniversary celebrations, including an interview with Wayne Hemingway, at www.youtube.com/southbankcentre. Notes to editors Tickets To gain exclusive access to Royal Festival Hall for Vintage at Southbank Centre, simply book a pass for Friday, Saturday or Sunday (£60). If you’d also like to attend the Vintage Revue in the evening, book a Friday, Saturday or Sunday Pass + Revue Show (starting from £75). The Royal Festival Hall will be open from 12pm – 1am each day. For tickets and further information visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk or Tel: 0844 847 9910 Southbank Centre Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Southbank Centre is home to the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and the Hayward Gallery as well as The Saison Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection. The Royal Festival Hall reopened in June 2007 following the major refurbishment of the Hall and redevelopment of the surrounding area and facilities. 1951 Festival of Britain The Festival of Britain, which officially opened on 3 May 1951, was created to give Britons a feeling of recovery and progress following the Second World War, as well as celebrating the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. At the heart of the nationwide Festival was the South Bank Exhibition, situated on what is now Southbank Centre. The exhibition was an unprecedented extravaganza, filled with new technology, science, art, design, and iconic constructions such as the Dome and the Skylon as well as the Royal Festival Hall. It was attended by more than eight million visitors and laid the foundation for the arts centre as it stands today. About MasterCard Worldwide As a leading global payments company, MasterCard Worldwide prides itself on being at the heart of commerce, helping to make life easier and more efficient for everyone, everywhere. MasterCard serves as a franchisor, processor and advisor to the payments industry, and makes commerce happen by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, governments, businesses,

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