It’s practically impossible to guess what’s going through Prince’s mind at any given moment. But if he’s selling tickets to his Vancouver club tour dates for $275 a pop, he perhaps figures that either he’s playing for the 1%, in which case they can afford to get what their given, or that normal people willing to hand over that kind of money for a single performance are big enough fans to love the lesser-known corners of his back catalogue.

Either way, it turned out there isn’t a surfeit of millionaires or Prince obsessives in Vancouver, forcing half price ticket deals to emerge over the weekend. Late yesterday afternoon you could even pick up tickets in exchange for $50 donations to charity.

However much fans paid for entry into last night’s early concert at The Vogue Theatre (the first of two, which will be followed by another two tonight), if they’d arrived hoping to hear the hits, they would have left sorely disappointed.