The Who-> to preview new mini-opera for the BBC

[An English Boy]

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The Who-> to preview new mini-opera for the BBC

The Who are set to preview their new 11-track mini-opera, strongly rumoured 
to be called 'The Glass Household', at the BBC's new Electric Proms.

The veterans will join Damon Albarn's new group, The Good, The Bad And The 
Queen, at the alternative season to the classical Prom concerts which is 
being held around Camden, north London, during October.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1, guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend said: "It 
just seemed to me to be an appropriate thing to play."

Townshend also shed more light on the mini-opera's plot, saying it was about 
"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".

As previously reported, The Who released a condensed version of 'The Glass 
Household' in July, called 'Wire & Glass'.

'The Glass Household' is likely to appear on The Who's forthcoming album, 
tentatively titled 'WHO2'. It will be their first since 1982's 'It's Hard'.

Albarn and The Good, The Bad And The Queen, meanwhile, will peform at the 
Camden Roundhouse on October 26, with the Blur man explaining his new 
project was, "a very English record. It's the first time I've really written 
about home since 'Parklife'".

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