In the autumn, the Roundhouse in north London will finally reopen its doors to live music, writes Caspar Llewellyn Smith.
The Grade II listed building has a strong tradition of hosting live gigs, having featured Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck and the Doors in the Sixties.
Joe Boyd's recent memoir, White Bicycles, contains vivid recollections of the UFO happenings there. But the venue closed in 1983, reopening only recently, following a £30m redevelopment.
With a revamped Dome and Wembley Stadium also in the offing, this is good news for London concert-goers. Better still, the inaugural gigs will be staged as part of something called the Electric Proms.
This is a big BBC initiative - the idea is to emulate the Henry Wood hoohah.
Special collaborations are promised between big pop and rock artists and newer names, and many of the concerts will be free to attend: it's the sort of thing that only the Beeb can pull off.
But the line-up for the five-day festival is being kept under wraps until mid-August so until we know more, we can only speculate and hope.
Who would your dream team-up comprise?
