My brain must have finally arrived in California because I have remembered about the BBC’s Electric Proms. The good news is that the broadcasts were indeed made available online. The bad news is that it was only for a limited time. I’ve missed the window for Billy Bragg already. But I did get to watch the Guillemots set last night. It was… strange. They opened up with “Little Bear”, which is an obvious thing to do is you have a whole BBC orchestra on hand, but after that they went into four new and more experimental pieces. At one point Fyfe and the band were leaping around the stage and torturing their instruments wearing animal masks and looking for all the world like they were auditioning for the soundtrack of a movie based on an Angela Carter book. Like I said, strange. Then they played out with “Trains to Brazil” and “Sao Paulo” just to make sure the crowd was happy. I wasn’t too pleased with the video or audio quality, but that’s bandwidth for you. Wish I’d been there.

You can see what’s left of the coverage here.

Update: Well it might say that the Billy Bragg set would only be available until Nov 1st, but I’m watching it now. Thank you, BBC!