Richard Thompson is BACK! He's curating this year's Meltdown Festival and will be announcing a line up soon.

Past curators have included Ornette Coleman, Massive Attack, Patti Smith, John Peel, Nick Cave, and Mr. David Bowie himself. Ornette Coleman sits in pretty esteemed company to be assigned the duty of curating the festival.

This will be the 17h Meltdown Festival, which takes place in Southbank Centre in London for 'nine days of concerts, DJ sets, talks, films, and visual art.'

Meltdown Music Festival Lineup 2010
June 11

Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls

June 12

Codeine Velvet Club

Joe Henry

A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle

June 13

Philharmonia Orchestra: Hovhannes

Krystle Warren

Raihan

June 14

Six Strings: John Etheridge, Martin Simpson & Special Guests
Film Screening: Grizzly Man

Seasick Steve

June 15

Field music

Paolo Nutini

June 16

Ollabelle

Beausoleil

June 17

The Duckworth Lewis Method

Bettye Lavette

An Evening of Political Song

June 18

Van Dyke Parks & Clare and the Reasons

June 19

Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson

Taqwacore Punks: The Kominas, Al-Thawra, Fun-Da-Mental &

Richard Thompsons 1000 Years of Popular Music

June 20

Elvis Costello Solo

June 21

Broken Bells