Just got it confirmed over at NPGMC, the afterparty is planned to be at Visions Nightclub downtown. They stressed it was an afterPARTY and not an afterSHOW, but you never know what might happen if ol' boy is in the mood.

See ya there!

From this morning's RedEye newspaper, posted on NPGMC by a user:

Anx said:

I AM SO JEALOUS!! My gut feeling is that he'll play...but then again, what the hell do I know? Damn, why couldn't I still be living in Chicago?

Anx said:

He'll be sipping on some sort of Carrot tofu juice and he'll do a brief wave from a hidden spot. ANd that'll be about it.

superspaceboy said:

yeah, prolly. or else he'll breeze past me again and swell up my sinuses with that paco rabbit he wears.

Anx said:

I can't wait to see the reports in the morning!

okay, at least ONE of y'all is back from this now...POST A REPORT!

endorphin74 said:

You are obsessed! Wait, I'm at prince.org waiting for info on shows...what can I say?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Well, it didn't help to wake up, turn on my celphone and receive back to back teaser text messages from some of these fucks who are now all "i'm gonna sleep instead of post a report"

endorphin74 said:

I bet it kinda felt like waking up to a voicemail from somebody telling you they have orchestra pit tickets, huh?

RipHer2Shreds said:

This is the only report I've found so far--from Housequake:



So I was wrong about Prince playing at the Afterparty, but seems he did show a little extra love to Chicago by playing some Bambi & Housequake...

jone70 said:

thanks!

If the after party didn't end till 4, I'm betting it will be a while before the Chi_kitties get up and feel like posting...

endorphin74 said:

i really don't think that's any excuse. post FIRST, sleep later

XxAxX said:

I know, those selfish kitties!

endorphin74 said:

endorphin74 said:

here's part 1 of my chicago saga, kitty.

We left the concert early to get to the "after show" thinking that it might be full. We go there and were able to park in front of the place and there was a whole 10 people inside for about an hour or so, then at about 335am Prince walked in and up on there stage. and then walked away. That fast, however me and my husband did get to shake his hand, that in its self was so awesome and well worth the money. However the after show and all the hipe was very misleading.

the show was really great. the reports of prince playing bambi and housequake and the cross are true, but he just played one guitar line, teased everyone, got everyone to yell and scream and then moved on. it was still cool though. he just asked the crowd who in here know about the quake. everyone yelled we do and then he moved on. there was an announcement that the afterparty was at excalibur which i thought was odd because the news i heard was that the afterparty was at visions. these are not the same club if i am not mistaken. so what is the story? i am glad i didnt go to the afterparty. i was exhausted from the show. i went to a park west afterparty a few years ago after a chicago theater show and the same thing happened - prince was there, people were dancing, but i dont need to pay twenty dollars to be in the same room as prince after seeing a two hour prince concert. and it was so late i knew by the time i got there it would be almost closing time. anyway, the concert was awesome. better than i expected. the sound was not that great - but tamar seems like she can sing well. the band was solid - i was delighted with the drumming. i did not think i would like the dancers, but they had so much energy that it really kept the energy going in the room. the best was when tamar and the twins would come dancing onto the stage after the song already started and the place would just erupt. awesome. it was great to see prince in that type of role too. the only complaint that i had really beside the sound was when tamar would say things like, chicago dont know how to party - chicago you know how to party. its okay when prince says it, but apparantly that was tamars first time in chicago and me no likey when old girl comes to my town and tells me.....

i'm DYING.

we showed up at around 3:30ish and they told us that they'd probably be closing up in half an hour, and they were pretty intent on getting our twenty bucks from us for thirty minutes of fammy stargazing, so we decided IHOP would be a better option.

fyi: prince did not show up at IHOP for their february 28 free pancakes promotion.

Anx said:

just as well we didnt go to the after show. i slept like a log but had to call off work and i let my kids stay home from school. there was no way i was getting up at 6:30am

brownsugar said:

i'm SOOOO glad i took today off. i wouldn'ta made it. i couldn't have even pretended to try.

Anx said:

dammit...and i coulda sworn during that one guitar solo he was doing, when he was making The Hohner "talk", he made it say "pancakes".

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

how long can prince be discussed without pancakes coming up in the conversation?

Anx said:

brownsugar said:

That's too funny 'cause there were a couple of times I had to do the exact same thing.

Yeah I really thought he was going to play but oh well I got to shake his hand. Did anyone get any pictures from the after party