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What’s On can exclusively reveal the legendary Prince will play a one-off invitation only event in Dubai THIS WEEK.

According to our well-placed sources, the pop icon will perform a special alfresco show on the Pacha Ibiza Dubai terrace for the who’s who in the region on Wednesday February 4. He will be backed by his band 3rdeyegirl.

i am not in the region on wendsday but i will let my desert friends know

KingSausage said:

Maybe he'll play Walk in Sand.

lezama said:

isnt dubai a few hours in front of the uk? if so thats good , wont be a late night! Mind you , it will be a near carbon copy of the london show. Come on prince , get your band to learn some of the new materail besi

antonb said:

isnt dubai a few hours in front of the uk? if so thats good , wont be a late night! Mind you , it will be a near carbon copy of the london show. Come on prince , get your band to learn some of the new materail besi

The planned setlist for london actually had quite a few new tracks on it, but he decided to go all out on Hits,

Probabaly due to the overall crowd being people who had money to spend and celebs etc.... To keep their interest.

i think i only saw wow, that is completely new to the live shows on that list, another love and automatic have already been performed in the past live.

fnksoul said:

antonb said:

isnt dubai a few hours in front of the uk? if so thats good , wont be a late night! Mind you , it will be a near carbon copy of the london show. Come on prince , get your band to learn some of the new materail besi

The planned setlist for london actually had quite a few new tracks on it, but he decided to go all out on Hits,

Probabaly due to the overall crowd being people who had money to spend and celebs etc.... To keep their interest.

Yes, because people should pay big bucks to and hear the most popular songs These gigs are for charity I honestly people try putting on your thinking caps.

yes, and he is playing them! Im sure you can play a bit of new stuff too , if your playing for longer than 2 hours! And know . i dont mean just funkenroll!

anyhow, anybody no where we can follow the show?

What's being played? I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man? (Edit: Actually, that sounds like Nother Compares 2 U)

[Edited 2/4/15 23:22pm]

According to Twitter they performed 'Now' and 'Pink Cashmere'!

thisisreece said:

According to Twitter they performed 'Now' and 'Pink Cashmere'!

Pink Cashmere!

^ keyboard

Setlist.. kind of blurry: http://instagram.com/p/yspkAIIh4-/

Prince in Dubai concert review

The Purple One descended on Dubai in typically mysterious fashion 2 Comments

The Purple One descended on Dubai in typically mysterious fashion. Reminiscent of 2014’s guerrilla gigs around London, where he turned up at small venues at short notice and wowed crowds with two-hour sets filled with hits from the last 35 years, his gig at Pacha was a bit of a conundrum.

This was a fundraiser gig, tickets were sent out once a donation had been made to Autism Rocks. The organisation must have been delighted with the turn out because excitement in the run-up to the show was at fever pitch, and the intimate venue was packed with people eager to get a glimpse of the artist now known as Prince again at close quarters.

Joined by his latest band, the all-female 3RDEYEGIRL, he started with Let’s Go Crazy, the opener from classic album Purple Rain. And crazy we went, and stayed that way for the next two hours. Most of the songs were transformed by the tight band into a slow, groovy funk – with some sublime organ and guitar solos from Prince himself, and lead guitarist Donna Grantis.

With a back catalogue spanning more than three decades, there will always be some songs that don’t make the set list (no Where Doves Cry!) but hearing Prince perform Nothing Compares 2 U (which he wrote for a side project before Sinéad O'Connor made it famous) at touching distance will be more than enough for most fans.

With a strict no-cameras policy, the heavies at either side of the stage created their own light show by shining torches at people who tried to flout the rules – which caused a slight annoyance from time to time. But to moan about that would be churlish.

We witnessed one of music’s real legends, close-up. A songwriting genius, a virtuoso musician and a born showman, Prince didn’t let the elevator bring us down. His second (and final) encore comprised of a 15-minute Purple Rain, which brought the house down.

Gigs don’t get much better than this.

He lost me. Fuck those arab dictators.

anyone has the accurate setlist of that night??