Lou Reed

Lou is the latest artist to be added to this year’s Meltdown Festival at London’s prestigious Southbank Centre.  This year’s festival is curated by Lou’s friend and collaborator, Antony.

Lou will perform a rare one-off London concert at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 10 August. Tickets from £45.

Tickets will go on sale to Southbank Members at 10am Tuesday 29 May, and on general sale at 10am on Thursday 31 May.  Tickets for Lou’s Meltdown show can be ordered from

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown, 0844 847 9944.  Tickets will also be available from Ticketmaster, 0844 844 0006.

Lou’s concert is part of Antony’s Meltdown, which also features performances from Diamanda Galás, Laurie Anderson, Elizabeth Fraser, CocoRosie, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joey Arias, Marc Almond, Hal Willner: Freedom Rides and many more.  For the full Meltdown line-up visit – www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown.

To access the official Lou Reed UK Meltdown press page, click HERE.

For further information about this concert, please contact:

Peter Noble and Will Taylor at Noble PR Consultancy

0207 272 7772, peter@noblepr.co.uk, will@noblepr.co.uk

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Final Weapon – A Stephan Berwick film, featuring an appearance and music by Lou Reed

Final Weapon will have its NYC debut as one of a small number of action films screening at the New Filmmakers Fest. The screening will begin on April 10th at 8pm at the Anthology Film Archives located at 32 2nd Ave at 2nd St.

Trailer:

YouTube:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvZq4a_Xkkw

IMDB:   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679190/

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Click this link for more information.

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Philip Glass has invited Lou, as well as Laurie Anderson, Antony, James Blake, Das Racist, Stephin Merritt, Rahzel, and Dechen Shak-Dagsay to celebrate the Tibetan New Year, the Year of the Water Dragon, at the Tibet House US Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday, February 13, 2012.

Concert tickets are on sale now exclusively through Carnegie Charge at 1-212-247-7800 and www.carnegiehall.org.
Benefit package tickets (include prime seats to the concert and entrance to a post-concert dinner party) are available exclusively through Tibet House US at 1-212-807-0563 and www.tibethouse.us.

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Click HERE to read the LA Times article.

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The Carpenter Performing Arts Center – 6200 Atherton St., on the campus of California State University, Long Beach

Presented in conjunction with the world premiere exhibition, Lou Reed, Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe—an Arup SoundLab Installation of a live recording of Metal Machine Trio at Gramercy Theater in 2009. The exhibition is on view from January 27, 2012 through April 15 in the Project Room at the University Art Museum, CSULB.

Click HERE for more info.