Guys - I can't say much at the moment but trust me on this...

There is NOTHING happening at the 10 Room in London!

Gavin from Uptown has told me that there is a plan for SOMETHING tonight but I can't speak at the moment - please give me about an hour or so and I MAY be able to announce something but do not make plans for the 10 room - OK ?

Any updates will be posted here - DO NOT org note either myself or Gavin until told to do so.

BC

As in

http://www.london-drinking.com/545.htm

All,

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, however after a whole day of absolute pandemonium, Universal Records have decided to cancel the plan for a Prince aftershow gig tonight.

I know many are planning on making the trip regardless, however I have been asked by the record company to clarify that there will be NO AFTERSHOW GIG tonight.

Prince only requested this morning that he wanted to play and unfortunately setting up such an event on such a busy night for the music business was logistically impossible. Ironically the one thing that we did have set up was a generous ticket allocation for Prince fans.

On behalf of Island Records (a division of Universal) I can only apologise for the delays and confusion that has been happening about tonight.

Prince's current plan is to leave the UK in the morning, however one thing I'm sure everyone as Prince fans appreciate - things can change (just not at such short notice

Gavin McLaughlin
Uptown Magazine

Aww...thanks for letting us know anyway Gav

Oh man... Talk about demoralising... I was all geared up for a very late night and a sickie tomorrow!

Surely he aint just gonna show up in London without playing somewhere. Maybe he will do something off his own back as opposed to doing it through the record company.

My house is free, I only have a small loungeroom, but enough for a stool, and man and a guitar.

thats a shame, home to record the brits then

Indeed! Even the local over the road from me would be more than happy with the extra custom...

bluebird said:

That wont be on telly until tomorrow anyway...

Why cant the largest record company in the world throw a simple gig in a small club rather than spending the whole day getting themselves in "absolute pandemonium" all about it?

GoldiesParade said:

good point well made

Rebeljuice said:

audio at least

bluebird said:

Well come on guys we don't know the whys and wherefore's, just be thankful that they were allocating tickets to fans and Gav has done his best for us.

Gav said:

Close down Heathrow! Force that skinny MF to play!!

ontheonevegas said:

Exactly! It's been a bloody nightmare and intense for me too, so God only knows how Gav managed to stay so cool

It was nice and increadibly generous of him to consider allocating some tickets to both us and HQ, so major props to him, I'm sure you'll all agree.

Gav said:

Just out of curiosity Gav, how would the tickets have been allocated and distributed? Was it a club thing?

BananaCologne said:

I agree! Cheers peeps!...

Him being Prince?

ontheonevegas said:

that gav has done his best isnt in question

BananaCologne said:

I am sure he has been run ragged, just trying to book london clubs for anything is hard enough months in advance. A days notice is impossible, especially today!

Thanks for both your efforts.

BananaCologne said:

another good point well made

Great effort lads....well we can all get a good nights sleep then....and enjoy the brits tomorrow..then look forward to the tour.

Rebeljuice said:

In terms of allocation, I was planning to draw up a list in conjunction with Banana C on here and gsh on Housequake.

The planned distribution method was highly technical - Get everyone in a pub, check they were who they said they were , and then give them a ticket

NPG2000 said:

Lets just hope he pops over for a few numbers in the summer...

Gav said:

Wicked... Coulda done with a drink!

GoldiesParade said:

Actually it's a valid question.

The problem wasn't actually so much getting a venue, there's a number of logistical points you need to take into account including:

1) Making sure it's not all execs and media otherwise zero atmosphere (that's where I came in)
2) Getting the media to come to an event when there's dozens others happening across town
3) Getting VIP's to come to the event as above
4) Contacting the above in sufficient time

But most importantly you have to consider whether the event going off half cocked with a bad turnout is worth the risk with a major release coming up?

Gav said:

bad turn out Gavin? - not a chance with prince - he might not be as mainstream as he once was, but class prevails, word on the street would be sufficient

obviously - the more notice the better - it's been a 'secret' he ws playing the Brits for more than a week - adequate time surely

thanks for any help/support you did give

cheers
Matt

Gav said:

thanks for that

Gav said:

Cheers for trying Gav. Glad to see you were building a pub trip in too!

SquirrelMeat said:

DAM DAM DAM gonna miss a pub trip!!!!!