Proms calendar

[french frank]

Thanks are due once again to bluestateprommer who has entered all the Proms concerts in the forum calendar. This can be browsed through by consulting the calendar itself, and of course it means that, seven days before each concert, details will appear at the bottom of the forum homepage in the What's Going On? panel - time to make those last minute arrangements to prom for that enticing concert that had slipped your memory!

Bsp - what are you?

[amateur51]

Thanks are due once again to bluestateprommer who has entered all the Proms concerts in the forum calendar. This can be browsed through by consulting the calendar itself, and of course it means that, seven days before each concert, details will appear at the bottom of the forum homepage in the What's Going On? panel - time to make those last minute arrangements to prom for that enticing concert that had slipped your memory!

Bsp - what are you?

Triffic stuff bsp indeed.

If only the Beeb would check out what Andrew Slater & bsp have done on here, praps we'd get a better layout on the Proms propectus next year. Come on you well-paid media-types

[french frank]

Come on you well-paid media-types

Sadly, I'm afraid they're too busy tweeting and posting photos on their Facebook page, to the delight (or otherwise) of a handful of listeners and considerably more artist/concert promoters. Last look, R3 topped the network radio list in number of (re)tweets but was bottom with only 18k followers; second came R1 with fewer tweets but over a million followers. How about concentrating on making the BBC online sites more informative and accurate?

[amateur51]

Sadly, I'm afraid they're too busy tweeting and posting photos on their Facebook page, to the delight (or otherwise) of a handful of listeners and considerably more artist/concert promoters. Last look, R3 topped the network radio list in number of (re)tweets but was bottom with only 18k followers; second came R1 with fewer tweets but over a million followers. How about concentrating on making the BBC online sites more informative and accurate?

and focussing the layout on what the punters need rather than what the latest gizmo can do

[BBMmk2]

What a great service! Bst indeed five stars!!

[alywin]

This is very useful, as I notice the usual Proms Planner was missing from the guide this year: another way of saving money?

[bluestateprommer]

Belated thanks to everyone here for the kind words about the calendar. I'm quite happy to do it, even if my wrists won't thank me in several years' time.

In fairness to the BBC Proms site, they do give me the raw material to work with, after all. I give it my own twist by relying on the Proms Archive (again, c/o the BBC) when I mark on a given program what I believe to be the first Proms performances of a given work, which the BBC Proms pages don't mark as such. However, they do kindly note when a given artist or ensemble is making their Proms debut. I chose not to include that, for reasons which I'll admit that I can't explain, and now I'll admit to wondering if I should include that information, as a courtesy to the artists.

At the risk of perhaps disrupting the flow and the focus on The Proms, I've added the Edinburgh Festival concerts that are specifically broadcast live on R3 in August. I've left the ones that are to be broadcast at a later date off for the time being, but I may well add those later, with suitable qualifying text.