I was looking at my notes and noticed i forgot to type up "Manic Monday", he played an instrumental version for us, so let me recap and get it right this time:

Sign O' The Times (instrumental only, no vocals)
Pop Life (several takes, no vocals...instrumentation only)
Various tuning up work with Candy tweaking her sax and improv. work, John testing his drum kit etc.
Automatic (bassline only, brief..few seconds)
Shake(full song with lyrics, prince sitting at the piano..included the bassline for "Automatic", very similiar to the version he played at the 2002 Celebration, but with more lyrics)
Manic Monday (instrumental only - no vocals, but members of the NPGMC were singing all the words, as was i...forgot to type this in my original review as i have it in my hand written notes)
Sometimes It Snows In April (very brief indeed...a few seconds, prince on the piano)
Prince talks with the NPGMC (one irish fan spoke to Prince and said that him and his wife were celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary today, the day of the concert...and he thanked Prince for making it special, as if Prince had played Dublin especially for their anniversary...to which Prince himself commented on, he jokingly replied something like ...ooh yeah i came to Ireland and played especially for you guys)
Empty Room (beautiful...different arrangement then what he played at the Celebration in 2002, full lyrics and complete song, and guitar parts...he changed the vocal delivery also from from Celebration)
The Ride (he played this long, really heavy guitar work, incrediable version and just terrific to finally hear the man himself play it)
Dolphin (brief snippet with Prince on guitar...the opening guitar lines that Prince normally plays)
Prince speaks with the NPGMC
Hair (a long instrumental and bass heavy take that also had sax lines from the horn section, some of the horn work resembled "Uptown Up" by Maceo Parker, Rhonda gave some great bass solo's...Prince once again tore the roof off on guitar, genius at work)
777-9311 (Rhonda played this briefly on bass, i noticed the song right away and shouted "yeah 777-9311!!", but despite us asking Prince to play it full, he moved on)
Thank You Fallentinme Be Mice Elf Again - Days Of Wild (this was very long, some 15 minutes, and Prince did sing many of the lyrics for "Thank You..." as well as nearly all the lyrics to "Days Of Wild", the instrumentation followed closely the live take from the Days Of Wild CD single, Prince has us chanting "we want the funk!" , killer take all round)
The Rainbow Children (instrumental version only - Prince moved off the stage at this point and walked back behind us and sat down)
Prince directs John Blackwell (Prince sat down 20 rows back and whispered into his mic, you could bearly hear him mumble directions to John, and John just banged on the drums and tuned up)
Pop Life (instrumental only...Prince then left and went backstage, overall a very impressive funkfest/soundcheck...all the NPGMC members enjoy it and commented on how relaxed and open Prince was with the fans, he was loose and friendly to everyone - even me!

Also note that at the start of the soundcheck when we first took out seats Prince spotted the mature lady from Florida, Susan Foley...she has seen Prince many times over the years, she also uses a walker to get around.
Prince spotted her right away and even said to her, "are you on tour?", Susan made some funny reply back, to which Prince said "we'll have to talk later".

Hope i provided a little more insight, sorry about missing Manic Monday from my notes...i was really tired last nite.

Cheers dude!

The lady had a walker?? Did one of Princes bodyguards beat her down?

2freaky4church1 said:

What the hell would they do that for?

Anyway, killer review, Libby...My friend Susan is jetsetting all over Europe.

cheers for the review as unfortunately I only caught the last 15-20 mins of the soundcheck - but I did get to chat to him for a couple of minutes when he was sitting down the back which was nice.