BBC Electric Proms Bring Forth More New Beats For 2007
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(London, UK) - After last years inaugural Electric Proms season bought together (then) new-girl Amy Winehouse with Paul Weller and showcased acts like recent Mercury Prize-winners Klaxons, this year’s line up features even more great collaborations, great films and greater performers.
The BBC Electric Proms will, in their own words, put on a selection of gigs that will ‘…give new and established artists the freedom to create unique performances and bring them to you.’ Running from Wednesday 24 to Sunday 28 October, mainly in Camden, North London, there’s even an appearance by Sir Paul McCartney, but here are the clubbier highlights:
On Wednesday, check out Mark Ronson playing at Camden’s amazing Roundhouse venue with the BBC Concert Orchestra, alongside friends and collaborators Lilly Allen, Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, Sean Lennon and Paul Weller. Or, if you’re in the mood for what Thomas Bangalter recently called ‘music for the eyes’ in The Observer, there’s the Daft Punk film Electroma being screened at the Roundhouse’s FreeDM Studio too.
On Thursday, get soul-jazz-funky with the Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions featuring Jamie Callum at the same venue, or if feel very smug as you already have tickets to the Chemical Brothers and Justice gig, which takes over Koko on the same night.
Friday’s a bit quiet for clubbier stuff, but on Saturday you can get all indie-electro with the Queens of Noize in the Roundhouse Freedom Studio, or get down to the Jazz Café for 1 Xtra’s showcase of Kano and Ghetto, two of grime’s finest MCs. And on Sunday there’s the film Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays at the Free DM Studios, or performances from Estelle and Ben Westbeech, again as part of the 1Xtra season at the Jazz Café. Phew!