onelap said:

No?! Mayb not "lets piss some fans off today" but could b "Oh...I don´t wanna do this Dublin-gig. I´m not in the mood. Cancel the show"
He plays Sir Nose and should have some treatment from starchilds BopGun

And 2 others...yes the r worse things in this world. But thats not what this forum is about. Its whole intention is ABOUT Prince and his music and artistry. Or did i get lost somwhere?!

I'm so upset, but at least I will get the 210 quid a ticket that I foolishly paid on the morning the tickets went out.

Anyway, i'm so upset i'm gonna but my JT album on - only kidding

The only thing that can fix this is 12" housequake on vinyl - damn that purple little pixie
[Edited 6/11/08 11:30am]

purplecorvette1 said:

Hell it's 1987 all over again (when the SOTT concert at Wembley was cancelled due to the threat of rain)

Feel sorry for all of you who bought tickets. Feel even more sorry for those who booked flights, hotels etc.

I decided to leave for Dublin on Monday anyway and have a great time. Is there still a gathering going to take place somewhere? If so, please orgnote me. I will enjoy my stay to the max - be it without Prince

L4OATheOriginal said:

I know, right? Half of the fun of the celebrations in Minny was the chance to get to meet/hang out with other Prince fans.

For a better understanding of the whole situation I'd recommend reading
TurnitUp's opening post here...
http://www.housequake.com...did=103159
and Rsp's post here (about halfway down page 8)...
http://www.housequake.com...ost1670089

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swanny said:

The losers are Prince's fans.

I've just stumbled on this site in the fall out of the cancellation. I know a lot of people will have lost money over this, and was jst wondering what the legal position would be? I'm sure there'll be a cancellation clause in the contract covering "reasons beyond the control" of prince or the promotor, but do they not have to give some clues about what those reasons are? Otherwise could they not just put any lame excuse in that category?

Basically, what I'm getting at is is there any chance of recovering money for flights etc (I was really pushing it to get a weekend away in the 1st place). I'm only losing out on about £100, but £100 x 55,000 (I know not everyone will be cancelling flights etc but you get my point) is a hell of a lot of money that people will be losing.

Any thoughts?

BorisFishpaw said:

There is some crap in those posts. To read them you would forget which artist is being dealt with here. Prince does what Prince wants to do. He agreed to the tour and then got a better offer to play a private birthday gig for loads more money. So he promptly cancelled Dublin. Lets face it he has form, look at the Lovesexy Japan tour in 89, he wanted to pull out of that at short notice to do the Batman soundtrack. Luckily at the time he had some managers who pointed out what a stupid idea that would be. Not nowadays , Prince does what he wants when he wants.

swanny said:

There's not as much 'crap' in those posts as there is in yours. Aside from my obvious disagreement with your opinion on how the concert was cancelled- I have to wonder are you actually saying you dislike Prince because he does what he wants to do in his life ?(this question in no way acknowledges my agreement that this was a spoilt tantrum on Prince's part) I am however, intrigued as to when it became a crime for doing (legal) things you want to do...

Yea, don't get me wrong, the London shows were definitely a nice little earner, but i still think he would have made a fair profit of the Dublin show...i appreciate the costs would be high, but a lot of the crew at the London shows were clearly British, and i've got a couple of photos of the plans for the symbol stage from the O2, and it's a real clever design, but simply constructed...literally just scaffolding with the symbol surface made up of lots of simple planes of wood...i watched them take it apart to make way for the Elton John Show during the O2 run (that's when i photographed the plans) it really didn't take them long...who knows, they may have even left it in England!

But I guess my point is that i doubt the money would be the reason for cancelling (at least not on Prince's part)

He knows how to make money, but it also seems that he's not bothered if he loses money either

It's speculation on my part, but i'd like to think Prince is above doing something (or not doing something) just because of the money

(also, this might be of interest to some people: the purple doves dvd has an interview where Prince is talking about cancelling gigs and how he hates to do it, the interview is about 5 years old now, but he gives an example of where he had to cancel a show and it was literally because he'd twisted his ankle in rehearsal ( i'll have to watch the interview again, but i think he may even have broken the ankle)

CosmicDancer said:

swanny said:

Hold on, that's just plain wrong. I never said that at all in my post.

Gav said:

I never said you did. I simply made a point about some of the content. If I had wanted to use your words I would have quoted you.

chill man.

skipper1958 said:

Well if my posts contain crap, why bother to reply to them.

just saw this on ireland.com - c quote from MCD. Mmmmmmhhh


As you’d expect, the web is alive with opinions and theories on the Prince cancellation yesterday. One poster on the Prince fan site Housequake has pointed out that Prince himself is contractually forbidden from commenting, so cannot defend himself against implications that he personally was behind the cancellation.

I’m deliberately not linking to these posts (and will remove all such links from any comments which follow), as some of the related material is difficult to substantiate, and I’d imagine there are a lot of legal teams standing by in the wings.

By the way, in the interests of balance, I asked a spokesperson for MCD for a comment on some of the other allegations raised by Housequake and was told they were “a pile of shite”.

riverjones said:

the link:

http://www.ireland.com/bl...y-goes-on/

riverjones said:

Hmmmm the plot thickens. I guess HQ need to be seen to defend Prince to try and get him back onside. I think MCD are being very poorly portrayed and some of the comments about them very unfair.
[Edited 6/11/08 14:22pm]

I predict a lawsuit. My father in law has ongoing business dealings with croke park mgt and I asked hime to suss it out today. Croke Parl Mgt speak very highly of MCD. MCD have brought all the big gigs to Croke Park and are cery well organised and well run. They do not believe one million euro would be handed over for the stadium booking unless they had a contract with Prince. They also estimate advertising at one million, ticketmaster costs at 200K, planning and admon costs of 150K so some one has a big bill and this will get resolved for sure - in the courts!

riverjones said:

Prince is sitting back all quiet knowing some of his more blinkered fans will spout all sorts of crap at MCD.

Thanks for the info anyway, nice to get some balance on this mess.

I think the HQ comments/explanation are being given more substance as they have been predicting the Croke gig would be cancelled for the last few weeks, as have a few people on the org, the Croke gig was always abit precariuous for allot of Prince fans as no more gigs for Europe were announced, I hoped he played, but I wasn't shocked when it was cancelled and that had nothing to do with the statements from HQ.

One thing I don't get from the explanation is that Prince could not comment on cancelling the Croke gig, this means he must have had a contract with MCD, otherwise he could have just come out when the gig was announced/tickets went on sale, stating that he is not contracted to play and he will not play, then the fans would not have bought the tickets..... MCD would not have spent all this money on arranging/advertising/marketing the gig without a decent contract, I've had my run-ins with TicketMaster, but they are a reputable ticket agent and there's no way they would have got invloved without contracts/commitments, these are all big players with lots of experience of putting on majot events, they don't just announce gigs and pressure artists to agree to play, this is business for them, making money, they don't care if the artists plays well or not, they just want to make the money, nothing wrong with that, but they wouldn't setup a gig like this without the artists agreement.

I think people are gussing here what's happened, lots of people are now posting how any fans doubting Prince should now feel bad and he has nothing to apologise for, the facts are there are no facts and until Prince releases facts, he's gonna carry most of the blame here (rightly or wrongly), particularly with the press and general public who are not fully aware the way Prince operates unlike we are, today at work people were just saying I see Prince has had a strop and cancelled again !
[Edited 6/11/08 15:01pm]
[Edited 6/11/08 15:02pm]

SNAP!

Now he can come to Minneapolis.

laurarichardson said:

Please people, WHAT tour are you talking about????? Prince is NOT on tour.....get your facts straight, y'all!!!

I suggest to wait for the explaination to this - I am sure that the cause wasn't the 55000 sold tickets. Every major artist has cancelled concerts, they are human too, but there may be something serious behind the decision. It is true that Prince is not communicating in the internet as he used to in the early '00s.

riverjones said:

Yes - surely MCD either DID or DID NOT have a contract with Prince. If a contract existed then prince should have played. If no contract existed then he could tell his fans that there was no show without worrying about a lawsuit.

Confused

Some guy/girl taking there hate to youtube

http://www.youtube.com/wa...Dn5FUxSIZ0

damn said:

Wow

damn said:

Wow indeed. That's one seriously pissed off fan.

PopeLeo said:

CarrieLee said:

For real. So sorry, you guys.