Pretty Electic Proms

The Electric Proms as a concept is brilliant and one that non-classical music fans have been calling for for years.

Basically it’s a giant live music festival but with the flair and creativity of the proms. Not just a bunch of people getting muddy in a field watching a band play on a big stage several miles away.

It will include gigs from Paul Weller, Jamiroquai and The Who through to The Raconteurs, Kasabain and the Zutons.

As well as the select few seeing them live you’ll be able to watch or listen to sets online, see them on BBC Big Screens around the country, listen on the various BBC Radio Stations, watch on the various BBC TV Channels or catch sets on BBCi.

This is all wonderful, brilliant, fantasmagorically glorious in so many ways but even better than all that - at least for someone as geeky as me - is the pretty BBC Electric Proms website.

I’m hoping this is a sign of things to come from Aunty Beeb as it has the colour scheme of the best of the 2.0 generation, the interactivity and usability of the best of the social web (without too much social bollocks) and the content of the greatest media company in the world.

It’s pink and black with a simple menu system and features linking between themselves.

It also has by far the sexiest (and simplest) media player the BBC has ever produced - it’s a bit of a nod to the concept mock ups I’ve seen for the iPlayer era News Player (pink and black).

Currently you can watch a set by Paul Weller, Jamorique or the Magic Numbers as well as listen to sets by The Young Knives, Seb Rochford and Klaxons.

Every band taking part has it’s own page complete with photos from their set, audio or video of them playing and comments from fans.

There’s also live webcasts of sets and interviews including one tonight from 21:30 with The Good, The Bad and the Queen.

Everything above, alone, without any of the other brilliant programming is why the BBC is by far the best media organisation in the world.

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