Meltdown Festival 2013, with Yoko Ono and guests – Art for arts sake with thrills and surprises. This year marks the 20^th anniversary of the Meltdown festival in London. The festival is unusual in the way that it is the celebrities and artists who choose the line up.

This year Yoko Ono is to decide the Meltdown Festival 2013 line up, and will be performing herself with the Plastic Ono band. Previous master of ceremonies at this highly anticipated event, have been David Bowie, Ray Davies, Jarvis Cocker and Patti Smith.

The multi-venue Meltdown festival 2013 is to take place on June 14 – 23, 2013, and the performances will be held in the Queen Elizabeth hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. The South Bank Centre could be considered as the head quarters of the Meltdown Festival and it is from here that you buy your tickets.

Part of the beauty of this particular event is that you can make the festival what you want it to be and buy only the tickets for the artists that you really want to see.

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The Wyndham Grand Chelsea Harbour is perfectly positioned to offer the very best in London activities and events, none more so than the Chelsea Flower Show 2013.

Want THE perfect base for the Chelsea Flower Show 2013? If you are asking where can I stay during the Chelsea Flower Show 2013, the answer is obvious…

The Wyndham Grand is situated a mere walk to the show and would make for an ideal choice for any attending the flower show and looking for somewhere to stay.

The Chelsea Flower Show2013 runs from  21-25 May and promises to live up to its yearly high standards.

This year, one flower may even come with its own security team!

Britain’s rarest orchid, The Lady’s Slipper orchid, will go on display under heavy security at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next week. The Lady’s Slipper orchid was brought back from the brink of extinction by scientists at Kew Gardens.

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Elvis Costello is irrefutably one of the UK’s leading singer/songwriters. Back in the seventies he had hit after hit with songs such as, ‘Oliver’s Army,’ ‘Watching the Detectives’ and ‘Pump It Up.’ Costello’s rendition of the Charles Aznavour song ‘She,’ was a mind-blowing side step from the pure pop sensibilities that his fans were accustomed to at that time, and didn’t he sing it well!

This highly respected and truly established artist is coming to London this June when his much acclaimed Revolver Tour hits Britain. Elvis Costello and the Impostors play the perfect Royal Albert Hall, London.

The Vaudevillian Revolving Wheel of Song

In 2012 Elvis Costello and the Impostors toured to great acclaim. The reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Audience members were invited to spin a wheel in order to dictate the next song that Elvis and his band were going to play.

Obviously this took away the responsibility from Elvis Costello and the Impostors to work out a set list in the dressing room. What a great simple idea! Let the hand of fate and the audience decide what the order of songs would be!

You can imagine Elvis and the Impostors tentatively hoping that there wouldn’t be too many slow songs grouped together.

The great Vaudevillian contraption rotated and Elvis awaited his fate amiably with a twinkle in his eye because this great musician need not worry about which song is thrown up by the wheel as we can rest assure that this great artist has mastered his songs immaculately by now!

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Covent Garden – Upmarket and affluent with a tumultuous history. Fringing on London’s west-end, Covent Garden is known throughout world as being one of the capital’s most upmarket areas.

Covent Garden is divided into a north and south area by the central thoroughfare known as “Long Acre.” Whilst the north contains mostly shops, the southern part has the central square and several important buildings, such as the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane and the London Transport Museum.

In 1200 AD Covent Garden was walled off and was used by Westminster Abbey as an orchard and vegetable plot. It was known at the time as the “Garden of the Abbey and Convent.”

Whilst Covent Garden may be synonymous with glamour and affluence, the area boasts quite a history. In the sixteenth century King Henry VIII seized the area and granted it to the Earls’ of Bedford. The fourth Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fancy houses to attract wealthy tenants.

Inigo Jones was a well travelled architect and most of his ideas came from Italy where he had spent time. Alas within 100 years the Earl’s plans to create a ‘well to do’ area backfired miserably as the area fell in to disrepute. Brothels and drinking houses opened up and by the time the 17^th century was over Covent Garden had become a well-known red light district.

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Sultry and sexy – there are ten days of striptease heading London’s way this May. Leading striptease artists will perform with titillating aplomb and show the world how much fun taking your clothes off can be! Yes indeed, there is much more than simply “getting them off,” with these skilful and provocative artists.

Founded by internationally proclaimed neo-Burlesque pioneer and producer, Mr Chaz Royal, the London Burlesque festival is a showcase for some of the world’s finest performers who have now ensured London’s status as the holder of the world’s most prestigious burlesque event.

Being held from May 10 until May 19, 2013, the artists on display at the London Burlesque Festival will push the boundaries of their art to the limit! Strip-tease takes on erotic, exotic and more dangerous levels.

Chaz Royal will make sure that the ten day London Burlesque Festival 2013 will be more risqué than ever before seen on the stage.

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