The Who And Damon Albarn To Debut New Material

The Who’s new mini opera is set to be premiered alongside Damon Albran’s new project with The Clash’s Paul Simonon at the BBC’s Electric Proms.

The Who’s opera is “a concept piece” according to Pete Townshend and follws the story of three children starting a rock band.

He told Radio 1: “Three kids who form a band and they discover a stash of papers by some has-been rock star, talking about a massive internet experiment. It just seemed to me to be an appropriate thing to play."

Meanwhile, Albarn said that his new work The Good, The Bad And The Queen was “the follow-on record" to Blur's Parklife.

"It's a very English record. It's the first time I've really written about home since Parklife," he added.

The five day Electric Proms festival takes place in and around Camden in October and will also see performances from Guillemots and more yet to be announced acts.