Bit of housekeeping ahead of tonight's @bbcproms at the @RoyalAlbertHall, then.. first up, tickets. A few remain on the RAH site but in case you're not familiar with the concept of the Proms, standing tickets cost just £7.12 (!) and go online from 10.35: royalalberthall.com/tickets/proms/… Start time will indeed be 8pm and we're playing our new album-length piece This New Noise (named after the Charlotte Higgins / @chiggi book) in full and that's it. It's (self-evidently we hope) not a normal gig, what with the symphony orchestra and all that

1. DER SUMPF (SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT)
This translates as ‘The Swamp (Symphony of a Great City)’. Berlin is built on very sandy soil which was originally marshland / swamp - named by the Slavic peoples who first settled it (brl = swamp in Slavic) #timstwitterlisteningparty As for ‘Symphony of a Great City’, that comes from Walter Ruttmann’s film of the same name from 1927. The theme which emerges in this song, on piano, is inspired by music from Edmund Meisel’s original score for that film & repeats across the record #timstwitterlisteningparty

INFORM - EDUCATE - ENTERTAIN

The last track to be written for this album, with good reason as it contains elements of all the others. I’ve used that same trick a few times.. I like to think it’s clever & symphonic but it’s probably just lazy #timstwitterlisteningparty We used to start the show with this song and I’d tune in to a radio live - it normally went fine apart from the night at @thetradesclub Hebden Bridge where I managed to tune in to a BBC R4 discussion on anal sex (I kid you not) #timstwitterlisteningparty