any news on tonights set list yet?

This is so completely not in the exact order but...

Started with the band doing When The Saints..,
Satisfied
Cream
U Got The Look
Musicology
Play That Funky Music
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What A Wonderful World
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Joy In Repetition
Anotherloverholenyohead
Peach
Lolita
Black Sweat
I Feel For You
Controversy
Kiss
Crazy (Gnarls)
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Purple Rain
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Let's Go Crazy (much fuller version than Weds)

...big gap - lots of boos from the crowd - came on with the lights up...
Take Me With U
Guitar

....then most of the audience waited for aaaaages before they kept putting out tannoy announcements that it was over and the O2 was closing shortly.

stereoboy said:

Ahh he didnt do an encore then?

No P with just guitar tonight. Bit of an anti climax at end. But hey! At least he played bass!!!!

Well having missed the last five songs last night I wasn't about to miss it this time so I stayed until the head of security literally threw me out tonight. LOL.

The show started much later than Weds - at about 8.45, and he was done with the main part of the show by 10.30pm. Then with fannying about of "ooooh, big surprise - he's coming back on with the lights up" he finished Guitar at about 10.50pm and that was it. He wasted SO much time tonight with the disappearing into the stage and coming back up again stuff. He could easily have done four or five more songs in the time he wasted.

Major anti-climax after Weds really, even though the crowd were a million times better.

Great to see him mix the set up so massively already though!

stereoboy said:

LOL, I'd be the same especially after the first night!!! Sounds good to me - I'll be happy with a mix of new and old - plus Controversy - I really want to hear that!

Controversy kicks ASS! So good to see the whole crowd up and dancing to that tonight! Prince was like "It's Friday night - I wanna dance all night!" and the crowd gave him that back.

! i need to stop reading these reviews im getting ALL excited and ive still got like 3 weeks to wait..

not a very good setlist compared to the other day.

hes my daughters fav pop star (her words not mine) seeing that we were sitting up in the gods not a bad show . I likd the way he stopped the band and told the guy dont clap on the snair drum then restarted the band showing him where to clap!!!

stereoboy said:

Absolutely spot on mate.

Oh - one of the Twinz fell over tonight during... erm...Kiss? Perhaps? Poor thing - must be hard enough dancing in those heels but after all the ticker tape has dropped during Lolita makes it extra-deadly! LOL

He dropped Desperate Housewives in Kiss tonight and just said Big Brother which got a big laugh again. No slagging of Madonna either. Heh. Perhaps he realised that implying he's only had 4 hits wasn't that smart

The 'oh funky London' chant actually got going, but some of the people who got up and danced seemed to be the same people who got up onstage on Weds!

Just remembering more about it - there was no intro-video tonight - the lights just went down and the band filed out of the corner and started playing as they went through the crowd and up onto the stage. Prince came up through the middle and was kept in really low light all the way through the whole of Satisfied which was an odd song to start with as the excitement of the crowd instantly dipped as it was clear most of them didn't know it, although he really played up to the song and won them over.

He did the "now what shall I play" thing before Kiss again - but this time added Soft And Wet and I Wanna Be Your Lover to the list of songs that patently loads of the crowd wanted to hear, but which he didn't play. Tsk tsk etc

There was a little bit of Housequake thrown in towards the end of one of the songs - possibly Black Sweat, but I'm not defo on that - and that got an absolute ROAR from the people around me in block 114.

Thankfully there was no re-appearance of either the wheelies or the purple flag-waving. If I remember more - I'll add it in.
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stereoboy said:

I smell a rat!

stereoboy said:

Totally agree about the crowd! 2nite tho was guitar focused... Bare naked guitar solos... I know what u mean about the time wasting... But I guess they do need time to recover a lil' He is 49! Although looks like he's just going thru puberty again lol

I felt it was a different experience to Weds evening...Shame he didnt do a come back like the opening night... In 15 mins he could do a real wicked medley... Perhaps in another space in time
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barneyboy said:

I hear ur cry... BUT.... The performance kicked asssss!

Yeah, don't get me wrong - in terms of getting up and dancing around and his feeding off the energy, I far preferred tonight - but I was expecting another 30-odd song set. Perhaps I've too high expectations based on Weds etc?

Anotherlover, Peach and Soft and Wet! 2 weeks and counting

stereoboy said:

Well i'll be going 2moro... third and last... I promise lol My g/f thinks i'm nuts.... But i know i am lol...'We gonna try a new position' Will be in upper tiers this time today was in C3 it was excellent position...Weds was in 103 near front was also perfection!

was in bk 404 row e not bad view but it did make Prince look small on stage

oldpurple said:

Not hard!

This was my first time seeing Prince after 20 years of being a fan and what can I say.....musically it surpassed all I have seen before. However I will say a couple of things to temper this....the man seemingly has no idea how to build up any momentum during a performance as every time people around me were really getting into the groove and dancing he would disappear for ages and we would all sit down again!

I was with 3 friends all of whom I would call casual listeners and if anything more aware of his major hits and they all felt the same and that he did not play enough hits. I guess with his varying of the setlist I could not have expected it to be as good a selection as on Wednesday - which I did not attend - however it was a shame how short the gig was in comparison. I for one stayed sat down until I was kicked out, constantly telling my friends that "no he will definitely be out again to perform Little Red Corvette, Rasberry Beret etc etc."

Don't get me wrong what I did get I thought was out of this world and his guitar/bass playing was everything I had hoped for. Its just I guess I wanted more more more

Maybe I will try to go to another gig later on and see yet more of his classic back catalogue. Oh that reminds me I wanted more from Planet Earth.....only Guitar in the whole concert!!!
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oldpurple said:

In row A he looks small on the stage.

GoldiesParade said:

The fact that he is small does not depend on whatever row you scored nor the fact that the show is over and the row does not count.

SquirrelMeat said:

With playing in just 1 location he has got to give the roadies something to do.

FANTASTIC gig!!!

I was in the upper tier this time and - for anyone worried about that - you get a bird's eye view of the stage. We could literally see everything that was going on. :thumsbup:

A MUCH better setlist than Wednesday's show, improved sound, the crowd were in a great mood, Prince really fed off their energy and he TORE up the guitar!! It was a vast improvement on the first show.

Can't wait for tonight's gig!

onenitealone said:

Yeah I thought it was much more of a 'Fan's' gig last night ... absolutely fantastic - things that stood out for me

...anotherloverholeinyourhead..

Then when he was saying ..what shall I sing now? Starts listing stuff - people scream at everything

Then - I feel for you.. controversy..

joy in repetition - AMAZING .. people around me going is this even a song - as I'm S C R E A M I N G the words ! lol .. it was like a small smoky jazz club - how ?? I don't know - JUST AMAZING

People I was with haven't seen him in like 15 years .. and when he had everyone up on the stage at the start - and that girl was dancing like crazy (v well I thought) ... and he goes 'the bar is now CLOSED' .. crowd crack up - my friends are like - we forgot how funny he was !

We were in 108 last night - decent seats.

Purple Rain / Kiss - yeah fine - but like everyone on here HOW many times have we seen them live - they're great but for me it was all the bit more obscure stuff that I LOVED. JUST LOVED.

And I know it's cheesy - but I just love take me with you - so glad he played it again.

Roll on the next one next saturday - it's going to be a long 21 nights !!!! YAY.