Oasis final headliner for BBC Electric Proms with Crouch End Festival Chorus

The BBC Electric Proms festival has announced Oasis as the final headliner to complete this year's festival bill. The event which happens from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th of October takes place at various venues in London, and for the first time at venues in Liverpool as well.
This will be a special performance by Oasis at the festival who will be accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus to bring festival goers classic Oasis anthems as well as tracks from their latest album 'Dig Your Own Soul'.

Noel Gallagher talking about the show said, "We are doing the Electric Proms, and we're doing it with the Crouch End Choir as well... there's 50 odd of them... because some of the songs on the album have got a 50 piece choir on them. So we're gonna do a night at the Proms with that lot, it should be good actually... 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 I've never done the Proms."

Festival Director Lorna Clarke added, "The closing night of the BBC Electric Proms has seen some legendary music acts take to the stage, including Ray Davies and The Who. Oasis are the perfect choice to close this year's event and bring a massive performance to an iconic and intimate London music venue."

Scottish group Glasvegas will be opening the Roundhouse Main Space for Oasis on the final day of the festival.

Tickets are available at 8.15am tomorrow, Tuesday 30th September. For more details, or to buy tickets for any other BBC Proms event (where available) click here.

Over 60 acts will be playing as part of the 2008 BBC Electric Proms - including performances from Burt Bacharach, Keane, XX Teens, and Africa Express in London and Razorlight, Milanese, Last Shadow Puppets and Tony Christie in Liverpool. For the line-up details as available please
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The shows will be broadcast across BBC Radio and TV as well as via the red button. Complete performances will also be available to watch online at bbc.co.uk/electricproms.

The venues for the event are in Liverpool - the Philharmonic Hall, Barfly and BBC Radio Merseyside. In London, shows will return to venues across Camden including the Roundhouse, Barfly, KOKO, Dingwalls and the Electric Ballroom. The festival features separate line-ups in the two cities.

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