Bob Shennan, Controller, Radio 2 and 6Music, has pulled the plug on the Electric Proms, on the grounds of cost. This little complement to the "real" Proms was conceived somewhere between Radio 1 and Jenny Abramsky, the then Director of Audio & Music, and launched in 2006. From a week-long event for UK bands and performers with "Camden cred" and genuine invention, it finally formally moved to Radio 2 last year and became a home for dinosaurs, with album-plugging performances from Elton John, Leon Russell, Neil Diamond and Robert Plant.
In the feed from the BBC Press Office, the adjoining press release brings us news that popular music quartet, Blue, will represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. That's the BBC in 2011 - Putting Quality First.
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