The slinky Australian cabaret diva and crowd-surfing queen Meow Meow made her Wonderground Kamikaze Festival debut at London’s Southwark Centre last month. Critic Lyn Gardner described her voice “like honeyed cream studded with razor blades… deliciously wayward and smartly funny deconstruction of the traditional female cabaret artist.”

Entitled Feline Intimate, the Festival website states. “expect sexiness, sequins, satire and possibly even the splits.” Meow Meow’s off-stage name, Melissa Madden Gray, won the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize. She is a regular guest in the Olivier Award Winning La Clique and La Soirée on the West End and created the role of the Maitresse in the musical adaption of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Giegud Theatre in 2011.