Will he still perform after these terrible explosions (maybe a terrorist attack) in Oslo today?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515

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ludwig said:

Will he still perform after these terrible explosions (maybe a terrorist attack) in Oslo today?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515

[Edited 7/22/11 8:21am]

Just seen this myself and asked the self same question. Not that Prince's concert is as important as the devestation caused

ludwig said:

Will he still perform after these terrible explosions (maybe a terrorist attack) in Oslo today?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515

[Edited 7/22/11 8:21am]

harveya said:

ludwig said:

Will he still perform after these terrible explosions (maybe a terrorist attack) in Oslo today?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515

[Edited 7/22/11 8:21am]

Just seen this myself and asked the self same question. Not that Prince's concert is as important as the devestation caused

Of course not. If I had tickets, I wouldn't go. I just hope he's not already there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFYUP3aKbU&feature=player_embedded

[Edited 7/22/11 9:17am]

ludwig said:

Will he still perform after these terrible explosions (maybe a terrorist attack) in Oslo today?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515

[Edited 7/22/11 8:21am]

the police is advising against large gatherings today, so it might just get cancelled...

Keep an eye on the concert's facebook event for any info:

https://www.facebook.com/...4636042332

Because of massive security, Oslo should be the safest place on earth the next couple of days...

I guess they will cancel, it's not the most important thing at the moment.

I will be scared as hell if i were Prince....

ludwig said:

harveya said:

Just seen this myself and asked the self same question. Not that Prince's concert is as important as the devestation caused

Of course not. If I had tickets, I wouldn't go. I just hope he's not already there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFYUP3aKbU&feature=player_embedded

[Edited 7/22/11 9:17am]

Why not? Its probably the safest place in Europe tonight.

This is posted on the homepage of Oslo Spektrum:

Vi ser med vantro på det som har skjedd i Oslo sentrum i ettermiddag. Våre tanker går til de som ble direkte berørt av eksplosjonen. Når det gjelder helgens planlagte konserter med Prince må vi se an situasjonen og de beskjedene vi mottar fra politiet. Mer informasjon vil bli lagt ut så fort vi vet noe.

Translated:

We look with disbelief on what's happened in downtown Oslo this afternoon. Our toughts goes the ones directly involved in the situation. Regarding this weekends planned concerts with Prince, we have to evaluate the situation and the directions we get from the police. More information will be available as soon as we know something.

Link: http://www.oslospektrum.n...33570.html

From what I know, NPG is already in Oslo and they are doing fine.

the red Prince trucks already left this morning so they are probably almost in Oslo right now...

So we should just wait and see what happen I guess??

My guess of the outcome: The concerts will be postponed to Aug 13th and 14th (following the Gothenburg concert). The situation in Oslo should be safe enough, but right now it's too many things going on and the situation is too complex to say that it's 100% safe. This is just my prediction...

SquirrelMeat said:

ludwig said:

Of course not. If I had tickets, I wouldn't go. I just hope he's not already there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFYUP3aKbU&feature=player_embedded

[Edited 7/22/11 9:17am]

Why not? Its probably the safest place in Europe tonight.

Would you like to "party like its 1999" after this tragedy has happened?

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ludwig said:

SquirrelMeat said:

Why not? Its probably the safest place in Europe tonight.

Would you like to "party like its 1999 after this tragedy has happened?

And apart from that I doubt it is that safe tonight reading all the latest news.

I think the shows should only go on if it's sure it's 100 % safe.

If it's not, then please cancel. I'm worried for the people there and for Prince and NPG as well, and the entire crew, if they will let the show go on when it's just not 100 % safe.

The organization will announce soon as possible if the concerts will continue.

[Edited 7/22/11 11:00am]

I doubt it will go ahead out of respect.

Reschedule. If not this year make a promise for next.

People/Fans will understand.

I guess it will go on, if i look at the message Shelby just posted on her facebook.

If he does perform, let's hope he doesn't play "1999". Especially not the outro...

My own response, and I do come from a country that has had a tragic history of terrorist acts, is to go on. You can not let other people with their own narrow minded agenda control yours.

In saying that their should be some acknowledgement of the events, similar to that on the 2nd O2 gig in London on the 3rd of August that not to many people seemed to had picked up on. It was the day of the floods in Minneapolis were if I remember correctly, a bridge had collapse killing a number of people. that night the show opened up with very muted lights and no lights on Prince for the first 10 minutes or so.

This was to me the equivalent of wearing the black arm-band.

Besides the people of Norway now need a little assurance that the sun will rise again tomorrow even if the forcast has a little (purple) rain in it!

[Edited 7/22/11 12:50pm]

Nebula2020 said:

I doubt it will go ahead out of respect.

Reschedule. If not this year make a promise for next.

People/Fans will understand.

I agree with that, it's not time to party now.

I'm sure people will understand, and if it's better for everybody's security, then that's what they should do, reschedule and do it in honor of...

By the media reports, this looks more now like this is an act of one sick person more than a terrorist attack. One person went nuts with a machine gun dressed as a police officer, and the same person was observed at the place of the blasts minutes before the bomb went off. That person is arrested.

With this development, I think the weekends concerts will go as planned. But still much to be confirmed...

Norwegian fans, be careful out there and be safe; just saw this on AOL news.

/www.huffingtonpost.ca/20..._Explosion

Oslo Bombing: Massive Blast Hits Norway Government Headquarters, Prime Minister's Office

THE CANADIAN PRESS — OSLO - A bomb ripped open buildings in the heart of Norway's government Friday, and a man dressed as a police officer opened fire at an island youth camp connected to the ruling party. At least seven people were killed in the blast and nine more in the camp shootings, the peaceful nation's worst violence since World War II.

Oslo police said 9 or 10 people were killed at the camp on Utoya island, where the youth wing of the Labor Party was holding a summer camp for hundreds of youths. Acting Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim says a man was arrested in the shooting, and the suspect had been observed in Oslo before the explosion there.

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Sponheim said police were still trying to get an overview of the camp shooting and could not say whether there was more than one shooter.

Aerial images broadcast by Norway's TV2 showed members of a SWAT team dressed in black arriving at the island in boats and running up the dock. Behind them, people stripped down to their underwear swam away from the island toward shore, some using flotation devices.

In Oslo, the capital and the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, the bombing left a square covered in twisted metal, shattered glass and documents expelled from surrounding buildings.

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Most of the windows in the 20-floor high-rise where Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his administration work were shattered. Other buildings damaged house government offices and the headquarters of some of Norway's leading newspapers.

Stoltenberg was working at home Friday and was unharmed, according to senior adviser Oivind Ostang.

Sponheim wouldn't give any details about the shooting suspect, who he said was dressed in a police uniform when he opened fire into a crowd of youths.

A spokesman for Stoltenberg's Labor Party, Per Gunnar Dahl, said he couldn't confirm that there were fatalities at Utoya, about 60 miles (100 kilometres) northwest of Oslo. The party's youth wing organizes an annual summer camp on the island, and Stoltenberg had been scheduled to speak there Saturday.

"There are at least five people who have been seriously wounded and have been transported to a local hospital," Dahl said. He said the shooting "created a panic situation where people started to swim from the island" to escape.

Police blocked off roads leading to the lake around Utoya. An AP reporter was turned away by police about 5-6 kilometres from the lake, as eight ambulances with sirens blaring entered the area.

In Oslo, police said the explosion was caused by "one or more" bombs, but declined to speculate on who was behind the attack. They later sealed off the nearby offices of broadcaster TV 2 after discovering a suspicious package.

Ian Dutton, who was in a nearby hotel, said the building "shook as if it had been struck by lightning or an earthquake." He looked outside and saw "a wall of debris and smoke."

Dutton, who is from New York, said the scene reminded him of Sept. 11 — people "just covered in rubble" walking through "a fog of debris."

"It wasn't any sort of a panic," he said, "It was really just people in disbelief and shock, especially in a such as safe and open country as Norway, you don't even think something like that is possible."

Public broadcaster NRK showed video of a blackened car lying on its side amid the debris. An AP reporter who was in the office of Norwegian news agency NTB said the building shook from the blast and all employees were evacuated. Down in the street, he saw one person with a bleeding leg being led away from the area.

The explosion occurred at 3:30 p.m. (1330 GMT), as Ole Tommy Pedersen stood at a bus stop 100 metres (yards) away.

"I saw three or four injured people being carried out of the building a few minutes later," Pedersen told AP.

The United States, European Union, NATO and the U.K., all quickly condemned the bombing, which Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague called "horrific" and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen deemed a "heinous act."

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Heide Bronke Fulton called the violence "despicable." There has been no confirmation of any U.S. casualties, she said. The U.S. Embassy in Norway warned Americans to avoid downtown Oslo.

The U.S. has offered help to Norwegian authorities but there has been no specific request for assistance, she said.

The attacks come as Norway grapples with a homegrown terror plot linked to al-Qaida. Two suspects are in jail awaiting charges.

Last week, a Norwegian prosecutor filed terror charges against an Iraqi-born cleric for threatening Norwegian politicians with death if he is deported from the Scandinavian country. The indictment centred on statements that Mullah Krekar — the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam — made to various news media, including American network NBC.

Terrorism has also been a concern in neighbouring Denmark since an uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad six years ago. Danish authorities say they have foiled several terror plots linked to the 2005 newspaper cartoons that triggered protests in Muslim countries. Last month, a Danish appeals court on Wednesday sentenced a Somali man to 10 years in prison for breaking into the home of the cartoonist.

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News from the promoter? Show postponed to August 2nd and 3rd?

http://www.rocknrolla.no/artikler/item/90-kondolanser-fra-prince-og-atomic-soul-oslo-konserter-utsatt

I lys av dagens tragiske hendelser har vi fått følgende melding fra Atomic Soul og Prince`s management (vinduene hos arrangør Atomic Soul ble også blåst ut..) og vi som med de vil gi våre dypeste kondolanser til alle som er berørt av denne uforståelige handlingen.

After the tragic news of the terrible circumstances in Oslo and at Utøya we will out of respect to the city, the victims and their families move the currently scheduled dates for tomorrow and sunday to the 2nd and 3rd August.
Our deepest sympathise go to of Norway on this most tragic of days.
Hilsen Peer og alle på Atomic Soul, Oslo Spektrum og Kim Worsoe - Prince tour promoter

Praktisk info:
23. juli-billetter kan brukes 2. august og 24. juli-billetter kan brukes 3. august.
Billetter kan også refunderes ved utsalgsted frem til 31. juli

VS

note from Shelby Johnson: For all those hitting me on Twitter & FB, We R safe!! We are in Oslo, Norway & evil things are happening all around us, but we will NOT be moved ♥ Please pray for the people here & pray for Peace!!! God be with all those who lost family members & loved ones here today. As I look outside my hotel window I am saddened!

So what's going on...

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it's for the best that it has been cancelled.

i think it would have been wrong to go ahead.