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PLEASE PLEASE let it be me :P :lol:

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We find out ttoday who has won tickets to the electric proms :dance:

PLEASE PLEASE let it be me :P :lol:

 

No! please please let it be me. http://www.sheknows.com/graphics/emoticons/pillowfight.gif :P

Good luck to everyone in here who has applied for tickets.

 

I'm afraid I had to give this one a miss. :(

Good luck peeps. Why can't Nitin's set be on TV. :( You can watch it online on the Sunday - hope someone can record it.

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Good luck peeps. Why can't Nitin's set be on TV. :( You can watch it online on the Sunday - hope someone can record it.

 

Is that definite munchkin? Not even on the Asian network. :(

Is that definite munchkin? Not even on the Asian network. :(

 

I must admit I haven't checked but I assumed the Asian Network on Sky etc. was a radio one not visual. I'll have to have a look see.

 

Found this for Friday 27th:

 

On Radio

What you can hear on the BBC on Friday.

 

Asian Network: Niki Bedi

12.30-16.00

 

Live from the Roundhouse with music and interviews

 

Nitin's set isn't until 22.00 so he won't be on that.

 

Then there is this:

 

Watch Online

Watch these online on Saturday 27 October.

The Zutons

Donovan

Nitin Sawhney

The Good, The Bad and The Queen

Jamie T

Young Tiger

Paul Weller

The Magic Numbers

Jamiroquai

 

and I think you can watch it throughout the week online too.

 

Here's the link anyway: http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/whatson/

 

This is nice to read - Nitin's write up:

 

I base my live set around energy and spontaneity and try build electricity between the band and the audience.

Nitin Sawhney

Friday 27 October 2006

Doors 21.45, performance starts 22.15

FREEDM Studio, Roundhouse, London

Sorry, all the places and tickets for this event have gone.

 

Nitin Sawhney is a musician of many talents. Besides composing prolifically for film and leading international orchestras, Sawhney has released seven studio albums, mixing Indian influences with electronica, hip hop, soul, jazz, drum & bass and flamenco. He has won the coveted South Bank Show Award, a MOBO Award and the BBC Radio 3 Boundary Crossing Award twice. In addition, Sawhney has scored over forty films, written scripts for 'Goodness Gracious Me', and produced the album 'Varekai' for Cirque du Soleil. Most recently Sawhney has scored Mira Nair's latest feature film 'The Namesake'.

 

Nitin has worked with a host of world-class recording artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Sting, Sinead O'Connor, A R Rahman, Jeff Beck and Will Young, and has toured the world with his band as as a DJ many times over. He has also written for and performed live with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia, the Metropole Orchestra, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

 

For the BBC Electric Proms, Nitin Sawhney will play host to a two-hour event featuring a very special line-up of guest musicians and vocalists. Nasha DJs Ges-e and Osmani Soundz will open the night, which will see performances by Nitin Sawhney and members of his band, alongside the vocal talents of Laura Izibor, Fink, Natacha Atlas, Reena Bhardwaj, Tina Grace, and Will Young

Last on the list, as usual :lol:

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Thanks for all the info munchkin. Just love reading Will being referred to as a world class recording artist. :D

 

They always save the best till last. :P

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Thanks munchkin for all the updates on the concert, I'm hoping to hear it in some form next week, fingers crossed for a mp3. :thumbup:
Three of our girls are going invited by friends who won tickets, so we'll get to know what happened late Friday or early Saturday.
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Thanks once again to Sharon who is keeping us all informed on what's happening in South Africa. :thumbup:

Morning girls,

 

The concert was advertised in The Sunday Tribune as well. I'm trying to get it scanned - then I'll put it on here.

 

It's actually amazing everybody knows about the concert and so many people have told me that they are going to see Will.

 

It is advertised on our radio station at least once every hour!!!!

 

They spoke to Shayne on Friday and our DJ, Allan asked him if he knew or had performed with any of the other artists and he said yes, Will and Allan said when he spoke to Will a few weeks ago he commented on how fortunate he is to be able to make money from the job he loves. Shayne had some very nice things to say about Will, unfortunately I was busy so I wasn't listening properly.

 

http://www.ecr.co.za/content/view/4266/82/

 

here's the advert on ECR web site.

 

love

Sharon

Thanks once again to Sharon who is keeping us all informed on what's happening in South Africa. :thumbup:

 

Thanks for bringing it over suggy :thumbup:

 

 

I am really loving all the SA promotion cant wait until the concerts start :yahoo:

 

Thanks for bringing that over suggy.

 

Great to see Will at the top of the list & it's his pic they're using to advertise the concert. :cheer:

A little snippet of interest from an article online :D

 

Have there been any cringey moments?

 

"It does happen. Sometimes the artists forget their words -Jack Johnson did but made something up on the spot. When Lemar did The Darkness' I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and The Automatic did Kanye West's Goldigger, I thought, 'Oh my god'. :lol:

 

"This gives the artists the chance to surprise people and show fans what they're made of. Will Young did a cover of OutKast's Hey Ya, which was absolutely phenomenal and still gets requested to this day. :yahoo: Same with Jamie Cullum's cover of Frontin'."

 

 

 

http://icharrow.icnetwork.co.uk/showbiz/tm...-name_page.html

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Awww, thanks for that, Jo is right it was phenomenal :cheer:

 

 

Yes she is - it was phenomenal. :cheer: So pleased it's still being requested.

From Joe Mott's page in the Star. Thanks to Ruthie.

 

Will Idols in Surf

 

Will Young has taken up surfing. After his recent UK tour, the Pop Idol has been relaxing in Newquay, where he splashed out on a wetsuit.

 

Leigh Hunt, 28 who works in the Surfers Paradise shop, sold the 27 year old his equipment.

 

He told me, "Will was really friendly and said he had been surfing once or twice before. He obviously loves it. He looked at boards but I think that he is just practising on foam boards for now."

 

Will also bought a surf DVD called Flow, to help him brush up on his skills.

 

We all know how well Will fills out a wet suit. :thumbup:

Thanks to Katy on Devoted.

 

Mark Brown, arts correspondent

Wednesday October 25, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

Unless you have been to a warm-up gig in the unlikely venues of East Prawle, Ilfracombe and Exeter you will have no real idea what Damon Albarn's latest project sounds like. Or how Kasabian sound with a 50-strong concert orchestra. Or what songs Nitin Sawhney would choose for Will Young to sing in front of 150 people. These questions and more will be answered over the next five days with the BBC's ground-breaking electric proms - a concept organisers hope will eventually be as embedded in Britain's cultural calendar as the classical proms.

 

Based at the newly restored Roundhouse in Camden, north London - and also at smaller venues nearby - the electric proms will see a diverse range of rock and pop stars doing something they have never done before, whether that is performing unheard material or with a new collaboration. At this late stage getting tickets is next to impossible, but the BBC is undoubtedly throwing its formidable weight behind it, with live and edited coverage on three TV channels and seven radio channels as well as online and on demand (the red button).

One woman worried that she will not have a chance to enjoy the week is the person in charge, Lorna Clarke. "The idea of having an event on a par with the classical proms has been kicking around for a couple of years but there was never an appointment of anyone to do it. Live music has never been healthier, guitars are back - now seemed like a good time."

 

Clarke was appointed in February with a scarily blank canvas - and no staff or desk, though she soon acquired both. The first thing she realised was that the festival calendar is already crowded. This year has seen more festivals than ever before, beyond saturation point, so October seemed a good month, allowing artists a breather after a hectic summer.

 

"We also knew that it had to be an event that was not just about showcasing the biggest bands with albums to promote. We wanted music from headline acts but also people not many have heard of. It's been done at breakneck speed but the feeling I have is that people were just ready for it. Pete Townshend said only the BBC could do this and I think he was right."

 

Clarke is keen to emphasise that this is year one, and she sees the proms "growing organically". "Great events don't happen overnight - Glastonbury was not great from the start." Having said that, the lineup for year one is impressive. The event kicks off tonight with Paul Weller not just performing classic Weller but also singing with Amy Winehouse, Carl Barat and Hard-Fi's Richard Archer.

 

The Magic Numbers, on the same bill, will be premiering tracks from their forthcoming album as well as playing with a string sextet. Lead singer Romeo Stodart told the Guardian they had jumped at the chance to take part.

 

"We were asked a while ago if we wanted to do something special and of course we said yes. And playing alongside Paul Weller, being Jam fans, is really exciting," he said.

 

"The whole thing is a great idea, it's the chance to do something different that is just for the night. Of course we all have such a hectic, crazy schedule that you never have a chance to rehearse these things as much as you would like, but sometimes that's better - you never know what's going to happen."

 

The highlight for many will be music from The Good, The Bad and The Queen, one of Damon Albarn's new projects from his increasingly wide portfolio (he is also working on a musical at the National Theatre and writing the score for Chinese circus-opera Monkey, Journey to the West, at next year's Manchester International Festival. And a new Blur album is on the cards, albeit without Graham Coxon).

 

Tomorrow will be the first performance of the whole album produced from Albarn's collaboration with former Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen and Blur/ Gorillaz guitarist Simon Tong. Also on stage will be "Young Tiger", a man in his 80s who is perhaps the oldest living calypsonian in the UK. About 3,000 people will be in the crowd in the main venue.

 

On Friday James Brown will be playing with the Zutons as well as performing swing and jazz standards from the 1940s accompanied by just a piano. Kasabian and Guillemots headline on Saturday night, performing with the 50-strong BBC concert orchestra. On the final night the Who will premiere their mini-opera Wire and Glass.

 

Downstairs some equally remarkable things will go on in front of a far more intimate crowd of about 150 people - everything from a night curated by Asian underground DJ Nitin Sawhney - choosing songs for singers including Will Young - to Billy Bragg performing with hip folk musician Seth Lakeman.

 

There will also be screenings of some of the best new music films of the year, starting today with the forthcoming BBC2 Arena documentary on Pete Doherty and followed in the week by previews of The US v John Lennon and Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man.

 

Clarke, and her bosses at the BBC, hope that in 80 years' time the electric proms will be as established as the classical proms, though they do not necessarily want bigger venues. "We will explore having a satellite version in say Manchester or Liverpool but we don't want to dilute the event."

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Thanks for this TT, I've read the whole article now and it sounds like it's going to be a fantastic 5 days, apart from Will I'm looking forward to Kasabian as well, but there are plenty of others that I'll be having a look at as well. :dance:

 

Ooops, thanks for the wetsuit snippet as well TT, although I think Will will probably be christening his new wetsuit in South Africa rather than Newquay's present cold water's. :D

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