Oasis headline proms

Manchester giants have been confirmed to close BBC Electric Proms

29 September 2008 - Oasis will take to the stage at The Roundhouse in London on Sunday 26 October, accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Speaking exclusively to 6 Music Noel Gallagher said: "There’s 50 odd, or 250 or something, so we’re gonna do a night with a full choir - because some of the songs have got a fifty piece choir on them on the album - so we’re gonna do a night at the proms with them."

Ray Davis has used the choir in the past, to which Gallagher responded: "Yeah and Ennio Morricone uses them for his spaghetti western stuff in England, so I’m already looking forward to that because I’ve never played the Roundhouse and never done the proms."
 
They join the previously announced Chaka Khan, Goldfrapp, Tony Christie, Wild Beasts, XX Teens and Burt Bacharach.

"I’m already looking forward to that because I’ve never played the Roundhouse and never done the proms."
Noel Gallagher

The show will be broadcast on BBC Radio 1 from 9pm on 26 October and televised on BBC2 at 22.45pm on the same day.

You’ll be able to watch the performance, all the interviews and photos of the BBC Electric Proms for a week after the festival at www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms

Tickets will go on sale at 8.15am on Tuesday 30 September.

Georgie Rogers