Rorywan said:

udo said:

I would appreciate an interacting crowd. Not chatting about whatver non-related subject but intensely watching, maybe moving, clapping (not out of rhythm, please), dancing, etc.

I.e.: focussed on the performance and what it produces within you.

That was what I hated about the final Rotterdam show: too many idiots around me that were 'not so very interested' (euphemism...!) unless Purple Rain or Kiss came along.

You are always going to get that at a large capacity gig. Unfortunately a lot of the people won't have heard anything outside "The Hits disc1".

Thats why the aftershows have always been gold for me.

c'mon Princey give us an aftershow!!

help me on this one , say there is an aftershow and its in tripod , is there a dress code

there or what ?( a certain wolfish type alluded to a dress code in tripod) so

we may not get in dressed in casuals

mfcuker said:

Rorywan said:

You are always going to get that at a large capacity gig. Unfortunately a lot of the people won't have heard anything outside "The Hits disc1".

Thats why the aftershows have always been gold for me.

c'mon Princey give us an aftershow!!

help me on this one , say there is an aftershow and its in tripod , is there a dress code

there or what ?( a certain wolfish type alluded to a dress code in tripod) so

we may not get in dressed in casuals

I doubt that individual ever stepped foot in Tripod in his 16 years.

http://www.boards.ie/vbul...2055481952

It's pot luck, depends on the night.

Very hard to know if they will implement a dress code or not.

Most Dublin bars/clubs do not.

I suggest everyone folows this Facebook page for updates from the promoter.

Prince due onstage 8.00-8.15. Curfew at 11.00. Looking like a three hour show.

https://www.facebook.com/...1104159561

colm said:

I suggest everyone folows this Facebook page for updates from the promoter.

Prince due onstage 8.00-8.15. Curfew at 11.00. Looking like a three hour show.

https://www.facebook.com/...1104159561

Almost 3 hours?!!!!

IRISHFAN said:

colm said:

I suggest everyone folows this Facebook page for updates from the promoter.

Prince due onstage 8.00-8.15. Curfew at 11.00. Looking like a three hour show.

https://www.facebook.com/...1104159561

Almost 3 hours?!!!!

I guess it depends on Prince's mood and nothing technical going wrong if the curfew is strict.

I went to the Luxembourg gig last week and the tickets said 'Show 20.30'

The band came on stage just after 9 and Maceo and Andy sang for about 20 minutes before Prince arrived on stage

- for a moment, I thought I was at a P-funk gig. Or one of the dodgy o2 'aftershows'.

Anyway, here's hoping for a good, long gig, an aftershow, better weather and world peace. In that order.

IRISHFAN said:

colm said:

I suggest everyone folows this Facebook page for updates from the promoter.

Prince due onstage 8.00-8.15. Curfew at 11.00. Looking like a three hour show.

https://www.facebook.com/...1104159561

Almost 3 hours?!!!!

Mace said:

Tiger7 said:

Flying from Stanstead Sat morning, staying at Bewleys nr airport and getting their shuttle bus to and from the show, sitting in Block B, hoping to have a pre show guinness cocktail with some orgers also staying at the hotel before catching the bus, maybe rocking up at the pub (Gibneys?) when we get there, then SHOWTIME!!!!! What is the likelyhood of an aftershow!?

The only aftershow I know of so far has been Paris so Im not as hopeful as before. Has anyone else heard anything??

I'd be more than happy with a nice three hour set at the castle

Oooooohhhhh spooky - maybe he's read our posts!!!!!!

It also says on the same page that curfew is 10.45 and he is on stage at 8.15. So onless he is on time (never) I'd say 2 hours but lets hope!

Also the train times from malahide are at 11.05 (perfect for a 10.45 finish) and 11.35. If he plays till 11, no-one will get the first train and EVERYONE will be trying to get on the last train, can't see them allowing that. Malahide station is too small?

But who knows?!

IRISHFAN said:

colm said:

I suggest everyone folows this Facebook page for updates from the promoter.

Prince due onstage 8.00-8.15. Curfew at 11.00. Looking like a three hour show.

https://www.facebook.com/...1104159561

Almost 3 hours?!!!!

Mace said:

Tiger7 said:

Flying from Stanstead Sat morning, staying at Bewleys nr airport and getting their shuttle bus to and from the show, sitting in Block B, hoping to have a pre show guinness cocktail with some orgers also staying at the hotel before catching the bus, maybe rocking up at the pub (Gibneys?) when we get there, then SHOWTIME!!!!! What is the likelyhood of an aftershow!?

The only aftershow I know of so far has been Paris so Im not as hopeful as before. Has anyone else heard anything??

I'd be more than happy with a nice three hour set at the castle

Oooooohhhhh spooky - maybe he's read our posts!!!!!!

Sorry about repeat post, computer crashed!!!

Rorywan said:

It also says on the same page that curfew is 10.45 and he is on stage at 8.15. So onless he is on time (never) I'd say 2 hours but lets hope!

Also the train times from malahide are at 11.05 (perfect for a 10.45 finish) and 11.35. If he plays till 11, no-one will get the first train and EVERYONE will be trying to get on the last train, can't see them allowing that. Malahide station is too small?

But who knows?!

I'm cycling home. 15 minutes.

colm said:

Rorywan said:

It also says on the same page that curfew is 10.45 and he is on stage at 8.15. So onless he is on time (never) I'd say 2 hours but lets hope!

Also the train times from malahide are at 11.05 (perfect for a 10.45 finish) and 11.35. If he plays till 11, no-one will get the first train and EVERYONE will be trying to get on the last train, can't see them allowing that. Malahide station is too small?

But who knows?!

I'm cycling home. 15 minutes.

Got room for 3 more on the back of your bike?!

Rorywan said:

colm said:

I'm cycling home. 15 minutes.

Got room for 3 more on the back of your bike?!

POD LIVE We were meant to announce the support act today but the papers haven't been finalised and although the act is known we cant announce just yet. Sorry for the delay. It will be worth the wait. Anyway, this show is all about Prince!! Good news is that the stage and seating are starting to go up. Pictures on Monday.

was asked to post this by a jnr orger who cant post yet , awww

Due to extra aisles being inserted into the seating rig, and the production arriving which has resulted in better sightlines, a small number of re-seating has been required. Anyone effected has been upgraded to better seats, closer to the stage. Only a select number of people have been affected and Ticketmaster would have contacted you by now if your seating has changed.

mfcuker said:

Rorywan said:

You are always going to get that at a large capacity gig. Unfortunately a lot of the people won't have heard anything outside "The Hits disc1".

Thats why the aftershows have always been gold for me.

c'mon Princey give us an aftershow!!

help me on this one , say there is an aftershow and its in tripod , is there a dress code

there or what ?( a certain wolfish type alluded to a dress code in tripod) so

we may not get in dressed in casuals

I went to see Janelle Monae in Tripod a few weeks back and I wore my trusty Skechers cos I knew there'd be dancing involved Normally I would never go to a nightclub in shoes that are that casual because you could be turned away but it was a ticketed event so they didn't even check. If there is an aftershow I'd say it will be the same. Anyway Tripod is considered to be the live music venue, the place next door is the actual nightclub.

And, like Udo, I wore casual clothes to the Cannes aftershow last year (the regulars were all in designer dresses and shirts) and it didn't even matter.

Manhattan11 said:

In today's Irishtimes:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2011/0721/1224301052864.html

Prince arrives in Dublin next week to play his first gig here in almost nine years. After the commotion surrounding his cancelled gig in 2008, what can fans expect this time around? He tells BRIAN BOYD it’s going to get ‘real funky’ and gives us a peek at his tour riders

AS FESTIVAL SEASON goes into overdrive and we’re inundated with the “I love this festival, this has been the highlight of my career” declarations – each as bland and predictable as the next – from pop and rocks stars, it is strangely thrilling to happen upon the curmudgeonly, madly eccentric and total self-absorption of Prince.

The 53-year-old singer and musician has been picking up the best reviews of his decades-long career for his performances on his current European tour, while upsetting the festival love-in going on around him.

Michael Eavis, the founder of the Glastonbury festival, would have given anything to have had Prince there this year (and he’s still the festival’s Most Wanted) but the singer isn’t exactly meeting him half-way, saying: “They use my name to sell Glastonbury. It’s illegal. I’ve never spoken to anyone about doing that concert – ever.”

When he does Nothing Compares 2 U on this tour, he prefaces it by saying: “Thank you Sinead O’Connor – I bought a house with [your version of] that song.” But just recently he seemed to be calling for all cover versions to be banned and expressed his displeasure at other artists covering his songs.

“My problem is when the industry covers the music. There’s this thing called a compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. And that doesn’t exist in any other art form, be it books or movies. There’s only one version of Law and Order . There are several versions of Kiss and Purple Rain.

Prince is one of the last great idiosyncratic musical geniuses left in a “I want to thank my lawyer and I want to thank Jesus” rock star world. Although efforts were made to push him into that Madonna/Michael Jackson huge pan-generarational cross-over market during the 1980s, he always demurred – preferring to be a free-floating presence who kept his edges sharp.

At the opening night of this tour in Paris’s Stade de France two weeks ago, what immediately strikes me is how much the live show is like all the best bits from the classic TV show, Soul Train .

“This is real music,” he bellows at us at frequent intervals during the two-and-a-half-hour funkathon as he gives a good kicking to some soul, funk, rock, gospel, rap and blues music.

Ignoring his recent material, he goes for a Glory Years set, interspersed with the odd Sly and The Family Stone cover. Halfway through, he changes into turbo-charged mode as U Got The Look is followed by P urple Rain, Let’s Go Crazy, 1999, When Doves Cry, Sign o’ the Times, I Would Die 4 U, Little Red Corvette and Kiss .

“Do you know how many hits we’ve got?” he asks. “We’ll be here ’til this time next year.”

Dance routines, singalongs, virtuoso solos and performing on top of his grand piano brings a bit of theatricality to the occasion.

Surprisingly, he has added Darling Nikki back into his set. The song became famous in the 1980s when Tipper Gore – wife of then US vice-president Al Gore – heard her daughter listening to the song’s salacious lyrics, prompting her to set up the Parents Music Resource Centre ( or “Parents Against Sexy Rock Music Lyrics” to the rest of us).

It was the group behind the introduction of “parental advisory” warnings on CDs about explicit lyrics. And it was all because of the lyrics to Darling Nikki. Now that Prince is a Jehovah’s Witness, however, he plays only the instrumental version.

And he keeps veering off-message: “We’ve made history tonight Paris,” he tells us at the end, leaving some 80,000 of us looking at each other and going “if you say so”.

Prince doesn’t do interviews. Or at least on those rare times he consents to a one-on-one conversation, you are not allowed to use a pen and paper or a recording device. And you cannot ask anything about the past.

He did take my e-mail, though, and true to his word, responds with this: “Hey Brian, I’m going to play as long as they let me at Malahide Castle when I come over. Tell Dublin to bring their dancing shoes. It’s going to get real funky.”

Apparently he has been brushing up on his cúpla focal after seeing President Obama get a big cheer for his efforts, but I’m not sure how that is going, as his last message on the subject is: “I speak the universal language of music. I’ll leave that [the Irish language] to the experts.”

In response to a direct question about a possible “surprise” on the night, he writes: “Brian, I need to talk to you to explain something about this confidentially.”

It seems the “surprise” has not been finalised but, if it comes off, it will be the big picture for the next day’s papers.

Like any star, Prince’s performance contract includes riders that list such requirements as what food and drinks he wants to have. Because I have a troubling obsession with rock star riders, he gladly provided his, in some detail – see below.

There is also a strong eco-message for all working on the event and he insists that all left-over food from band, crew and audience be delivered that same night to a local food centre “for the homeless or less fortunate”.

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Prince plays Malahide Castle on July 30th.

See pod.ie

Fit for a king . . . or a prince

Prince sent Brian Boyd the riders for his visit to Ireland. Here's what he asked for

Backstage rider

6 personal-size Fiji water (warm)

6 personal-size Fiji water (cold)

12 sodas (ginger ale, Coke, Pepsi, Diet Coke)

1 bottle Cristal champagne

1 bottle Limoncello

2 bottles Merlot wine

1 bottle white wine

Hotel suite rider

Must be at 80ºF

Please close black-out curtains in master suite

A thick, extra blanket should be folded at the foot of the bed

A large, rolling wardrobe rack with hangers placed not in the bedroom, but in one of the living areas

Please provide a laptop computer (Windows Operating System) with large screen in the suite.

Please have the computer powered on with the web browser displaying the Google home page.

High-quality flower arrangements in suite

Large bowl of fresh, uncut fruit, including fresh berries.

Interesting article, thanks for sharing. I wonder who / what the special act or surprise is. Hopefully not Bono ...

Rorywan said:

It also says on the same page that curfew is 10.45

Whoever arranged that gig there must be delusional.

A P gig with a curfew, let alone one that early, is evil.

i am just thinkn out loud , the strange g5 reference no on my ticket does

this suggest an area of the pit , would it be split into sections , seeing that its

supposed to be quite big ?

Big: probably.

g5 here too but the way it was put means no significance I guess.

udo said:

Big: probably.

g5 here too but the way it was put means no significance I guess.

yea i kinda thought that , but i heard suggestions there was 3000 pit tickets , this seems

MASSIVE !! ??

mfcuker said:

udo said:

Big: probably.

g5 here too but the way it was put means no significance I guess.

yea i kinda thought that , but i heard suggestions there was 3000 pit tickets , this seems

MASSIVE !! ??

We went through this in a previous incarnation of this thread. It doesn't mean anything, its just the way Ticketmaster organise numbers allocated to each area. their computer system acts as if each person has an allotted space, as if they were seated. It's one big pit. Well thats what we have been told previously by TM anyway. So don't worry about it.

It is massive.

[Edited 7/21/11 8:31am]

mfcuker said:

udo said:

Big: probably.

g5 here too but the way it was put means no significance I guess.

yea i kinda thought that , but i heard suggestions there was 3000 pit tickets , this seems

MASSIVE !! ??

Mwoah...

Kinda like the 'pit' (cercle d'or or whatever) in Paris?

http://www.thejournal.ie/...7-Jul2011/

Getting super excited about this now.

It's gonna be a beautiful night !!!!

Malahide 30th July

18°
and NO RAIN

http://www.foreca.com/Eir...s=20110730

mfcuker said:

was asked to post this by a jnr orger who cant post yet , awww

Due to extra aisles being inserted into the seating rig, and the production arriving which has resulted in better sightlines, a small number of re-seating has been required. Anyone effected has been upgraded to better seats, closer to the stage. Only a select number of people have been affected and Ticketmaster would have contacted you by now if your seating has changed.

Thanx 4 info...better seats???hope so.......not long 2 go..