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First night report for the Japan tour - Nov 15
Dear Ben and all Prince fams around the world...
{{{It's been 5 years and 309 days...(please sing with the key of Nothing compares 2 U...) YES, Prince and NPG is in Japan!! Too long to wait!! (So, I went to the Xenophobia... ) And I went to the first night concert of Japan tour last night! IT WAS AWESOME!!! Prince really blew us away!!!}}}
This is my first post to prince.org.
I am sorry for mistakes of my English but hope you understand and enjoy this.
The gate open was from 17:30 for public but it was changed and delayed due to the trouble of ticketing NPGMC seats. And finally NPGMC members got inside of the hall around 18:00 and the sound check was for 30 min.
When the time we enter the hall, NPG was playing "Last December" (instrumental part). After NPG members got own seats, Prince showed up!! Of course Prince was greeted with loud cheers and standing obeisant.
The sound check was very tensed and they played 2 songs. Last December and one fonky song by horns (sorry I don't know that song), but Prince did not sing during the sound check.
The show was started from 19:10 and finished at 21:50. As normal, the show was started by John B's fonky drums!! Prince was highly motivated from the first song "Rainbow children" and he was SO COOL and glowed with his glory.
His positive acts brought us the excitement and he really blew us away!!
I am sorry that I do not have complete set list so I hope someone send it.
Unfortunatly we didn't have after party but we understand that Prince and NPG need some rest for the time difference. We will have a plenty of opportunity for it.
As the summery for the concert, I have to mention that TUNA, who was on the stage at first night of Xenophobia, you know, he called up on the stage by Prince and danced under the big spot light!!
And when Prince asked to the guy at the front to sing a sensitive part of "How come U don't call me anymore",like "call me..." part, but that guy groaned badly with out of note "call me---!!". Prince was so surprised with his cute surprised face and he joked to call the security for him! We really laughed out loud!!
Prince asked us some simple responses like "TOKIO--WO--O!" for several times. He must like it so much. Also he thanked us several times as we enjoy his music, showed up to the concert and showed him love.
At last, NPGMC members had a big trouble for getting seats due to the miss direction by Japanese promoter and many people could not enjoy the whole show due to the security reasons. In fact, I had some troubles too but I must say that Prince & NPG staffs and NPGMC volunteers(members) helped us a lot. We can work things out with "love 4 one another" spirit, right?
And personally I really enjoyed the show itself very much!! I've never had such a good seat in my whole life and appreciated to Prince and NPG staff for giving me an opportunity for taking such a good seat.
Thank you for reading this.
Emi from Tokyo, JAPAN!