Another super bad Aftershow! He came on early, I think it was 12.45, and played a whole set with Shelby, the energy-bomb - the usual stuff, Sugar Mama, Baby Love, Crazy, Honky Tonk Woman and quite a few more.Then she went off for a while and he launched into
Planet Earth!!! There were some gasps of disbelief behind me. This was followed by
Guitar
Somewhere Here on Earth and
The 1 U Wanna C! The crowd absolutely loved the new stuff.
Then
When u were mine,
Anotherloverholeinyohead and quite a few others. Someone else please do a complete set list.
But the best was the last encore: Chelsea Rogers!!! Finally! My god, it was so long overdue that we, the crowd, sang so loud, we shouted it out so bad, that I could hardly hear the band play!!!
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He played until 2.15, I think - about 90 min

A few times he came onto the plinth-type thing in front of the stage, between the speakers that point back to the stage. I was standing right there in 2nd row and was then no more than a foot away from him. He wouldn't touch our hands so I briefly touched his foot - sorry, but I just had to!
I did touch Shelby's hand though when she came to stand there, which she did quite a few times. She looked really classy tonight, real great outfit. Prince was in a yellow suit with a hood which he kept putting on but it kept falling off.

3121 was in there somewhere towards the end .. was it the last 'proper' track ??

Just got back. That was just amazing. Finally did Chelsea Rogers!! Great show Prince. Thank you to you and the band. London truly appreciates what you're doing for us.

'The summer that changed everything'

and i was standing outside having a smoke (with another orger amongst others) right after the main show and was sure the aftershow would be awesome as he was so blatantly pumped during the main and thought "fuck it - i'm tired..."

what a twat!

ionlywannafeeluup said:

Great aftershow, my highlights were the first four tunes off planet earth and when u were mine.

wasnt so sure with prince's outfit tonight - looked like a banana skin with a hood!

Great Aftershow and my 2nd favorite so far, after the 28th August of course. The second half saw Prince play 5 tracks from Planet Earth and everybody went crazy during Chelsea Rodgers. What on earth will the 21st be like??

Set list from the top of my head as follows:

Honky Tonk Woman
Crazy/Can't Get You Out of My Head
Rock Steady
Sugar Mama
Love Is A Losing Game
Baby Love
Redhead Stepchild
Stratus
Planet Earth
Guitar
Somewhere Here On Earth
The 1 U Wanna C
When U Were Mine
Anotherloverholeinyohead/Rock Lobster
3121
Bass solo
Chelsea Rodgers

I just want to add that the audience tonight at the aftershow was fantastic!!
I was in the first rows and they were no drunks this time...the vibe was UNBELIEVABLE and Prince delivered beyond any expectations. I was at the aftershow on the opening night and this one was a million times better. I had the time of my life and I believe that so did Prince. He looked like he was having so much fun. I'm in love, I'm in love , I'm in love !!!

that was ridiculously amazing.



"they should have sent a poet"

blacksweat said:

superb, lucky so n so's

Oh yes, the bass solo, too right, that was so funky! The crowd were still chanting Funky London, so I couldn't hear some of it so well.

Yes, I agree, they were the best crowd ever, no drunks at all at the front were I was. Just people unbelievably into it. Thanks guys!

At one point he was so bowled over I think by the level of noise the crowd was making when he came back out for another encore that he just lay down on the floor. Stayed there for a bit... Like in the Rave Un2 video. That guy is just crazy! Can't help but love him.

He changed the lyrics on Guitar, "I'll write a letter when I learn how to spell, until that day you can - got to heaven..." with that grin

Man, I can't go to bed now, yet I'll have to go to work soon!

LiveToLove said:

Sitting next to pretty excited party pepple, so that's good! My purple beret is getting a few comments, chuffed about that (Dyed it myself, it was white a couple of days ago!)
Arena filling up nicely now. Behind me someone with very sweet small daughter, also wearing a very cool hat.
OMG, 8.40 and lights r out!



maybe a sign to a great aftershow, going green with envy here in germany, knew it was a mistake to get on that plane yesterday

how right i was, and he played Chelsea Rodgers, what was that like live, please put me out of my misery

Me so jealous!

Yes I still ain't gone to bed yet
Last nights was a pretty close second best after the 28th. Fantastic

Just one small moan, the girl holding the huge up near the front, leave it at home next time, think of the folk behind who's view is spoiled by you waving the damn thing high in the air. Its selfish.
Moan over.

Here's looking forwqard to Sunday

KNEW he was gonna play a stonker last night! Bugger. Alas i had to head home anyway

Had a great night at the main gig though - was lucky enough to get a ticket to one of the corporate boxes - excellent view indeed! And had a v lovely hostess too! Bargain.

FunkyAphrodite said:

Hi FA, I was hosting a corporate box last night! Onbehalf of the council, I don't work for the O2. The views from the boxes are great, and you can dance your ass off, but alas I had to be all professional, so just rocked from side to side, looking proudly at the purple one.

purplepassion72 said:

Blimey..... it's YOU! I was in your box! I'll send you an Orgnote!

....My excuse was i was a bit colded up and had a sore throat
[Edited 9/7/07 1:02am]

Last night was just plain ridiculous. Mind blowing on every single level.
He looked HOT, loads of stuff from Planet Earth (at one point I thought he was going to play the entire album in sequence) , a killer version of When you were mine and to top it off, a cover of Kylie Minogue!! wowwowowowowowoowowowowowoow

Barely slept was on such a high.

It felt like everything came together at Indigo last night and the first since the tour opened I felt like the entire club was full of fans.

incredible.

purplepassion72 said:

"Check out Prince, playing the bass
Check out Prince, playing the bass
Check out Prince, playing the bass
Check out Prince, playing the bass
Check out Prince, playing the bass....."

Fastastic Aftershow - even better than the one on the 1st September for me. Mind you, I was in the balcony for that show and down on the floor this time!

I wasn't going to go to any more dates after this one but after a show like last night.....
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LiveToLove said:

I know great atmospshere! and loved the 'check out prince, playing the bass'

Thanks Prince and the band, thought I'd had my luck after seeing great a'show on 18th, last night just as good, 2 totally diff a'shows to treasure in my memories forever

My favs were Planet Earth, Somewhere here on Earth and When You Were Mine, first 2 as you could hear his voice so clear. His voice was so amazing on The Beautiful Ones in the main show, he sang it with such passion like on PR

...and then... and then... and then... there was Mr. Hayes robot dance! And the guy Shelby got on stage during Love is a losing game - what a shirt, what a hat, what a pair of trousers!!! And having P play guitar RIGHT next 2 him... lucky so and so!
"Amy Winehouse. Take care of urself. That stuff may have been cool in the 80s. It ain't cool now."
More stuff keeps coming back to me.... Haven't slept - now at work... La, la, la. la, la, la-la, la, la la... can't get u outta my head....

Chelsea Rodgers?

I SO wish I was there to hear it!

boomboomboom said:

Hmmm..... Do you think he's having such a good time that he's changed his mind about hanging up his Guitar???
Me thinks that he should stay here & party for ever!!

slaphead said:

Fingers and toes crossed!

Hope he plays at the Sunday aftershow as well. With a 3 day break I guess it's not out of the question.