Hello,

Can anyone confirm the Arena Santa Giuliana is the athletic field that can be seen in the streetview?

Or is the venue someplace else?

Udo

udo said:

Hello,

Can anyone confirm the Arena Santa Giuliana is the athletic field that can be seen in the streetview?

Or is the venue someplace else?

Udo

Yes, it should be right. Looking on the official Umbria Jazz site, the place is near the street "Via Cacciattori delle Alpi".

http://english.umbriajazz.com/Mediacenter/FE/CategoriaMedia.aspx?idc=4&explicit=SI

Rang the organiser's as couldnt get through to the ticket office to get a bit more info.

They confirmed the following

tickets will be on sale 6 June, I asked does that mean from midnight, the response was on that day.

tickets are General admission(Posto Unico in piedi) only

They would not tell me the capacity of the venue and they still did not have ticket prices.

I was really hoping that it would be reserved seating as for most artists at this festival.

Seems that the big money acts(Prince & Santana) here are all general admission pack them in to maximise the revenue.

Hope to be pleasantly surprised with some reserved seating announced Monday, because my days of vigils outside concert venues are way past me. The way it stands that's 3 tickets(myself, wife & 5 yo) that wont be bought.

teiemka said:

The way it stands that's 3 tickets(myself, wife & 5 yo) that wont be bought.

So can I have one of your tickets then?

Tickets available from June 6.

70 € pre-sale rights included. Standing ticket.

http://english.umbriajazz.com/mediacenter/FE/articoli/prince-at-umbria-jazz-11-friday-july-15.html

got my tickets

see you in perugia

greets

netzverwalter

Mine 3

Sorry, silly old joke. Couldn't resist. True though. See you there!

hope we are not the only 7 there

looking so foward seeing him again

santana on 12th

gilberto gil on 14th

prince on15th

b.b king on 16th

so what u think about a common perfomance?

greets

netzverwalter

[Edited 6/7/11 6:26am]

udo said:

teiemka said:

The way it stands that's 3 tickets(myself, wife & 5 yo) that wont be bought.

So can I have one of your tickets then?

I'm disgusted with myself, ditched the family and I went back on my word

That makes 8 of us.

is this show sold out ?

xenophobia2002 said:

is this show sold out ?

no tix are still avail.

Does anyone know if there are VIP tix avail for this show? One of my contacts said that there are VIP tix, what does this mean, early entry, something else?

Hello,

I am attending this concert. But i'm travelling in (by car) from Grosseto (2,5 hours away form Perugia). I will have to drive back to Grosseto after the concert. Does anyone know if the road is a safe road to travel back at night, or is it more safe to book a'hotel (there arent many available anymore).

Thanks for your answer !

Naqua

madness said:

Does anyone know if there are VIP tix avail for this show?

Publically, no

madness said:

One of my contacts said that there are VIP tix, what does this mean, early entry, something else?

That your mates with the organisers.

funkaholic1972 said:

I was at Umbria Jazz last year, saw Joe Sample with Randy Crawford, and it was awesome! It was on à huge square and the sound was marvellous. I can only imagine seeing Prince there, must be fantastic! Wish i could be there, but will see him here in Holland the 26th of July...

Was this at the Arena Santa Giuliana?

I saw this betre map: http://english.umbriajazz...xplicit=SI

They have the arena near the Via Cacciatori delle Alpi where I suspected it...

One more sleep to go.

Wearing this cap to the show, so any orgers that spot it do stop to say hello.

Should be getting to Perugia around 1530. On my own so if anyone's interested in hanging out before or during the show PM.

Have fun at the concert 2day!

Yes, it's time to go!!!

We hope for a great show!!! And there will be full moon too!!!

And - why not? - an aftershow will be welcome!!!

we will be heading to perugia in about 2 hours

so looking forward to tonight

see u there and lets hope for an aftershow!!!

greets from bolsena

netzverWalter

http://www.repubblica.it/...-19108495/

Just back home.

Nice show.

Found 1,5 idiots over there though.

I can kick around all their rhetoric but they spoiled the end of the show for me. (yes, you know who you are...)

Again: nice show, nothing really special (or did I forget?), but all worked well and sounded OK.

Nice environment, but where was the dynamite when that town was built!?

The hills need to go. The Giuliana hill or whatever it is called nearly killed me when I quickly wen from teh railway station to the arena...

Brother brought game tonight, I am still buzzing from this undoubtedly brilliant experience.

I got there about 1600, so missed the soundcheck hooked up with a fellow orger Seb from Prince heartland Holland and exchanged our Prince warstories over a couple of brews.

Gates opened at around 1845, didn't really have to make a mad scramble to get IMO the optimium postion between centrestage and the piano, 5 rows back. Dont like to get any closer than that as I like to have a full view of the stage. Waiting 2 odd hours I couldn't really make out the mood of the crowd, talked to a few guys next to me that were first timers and a hardcore fan from Torino(sorry I didnt get his name we were too busy talking shop). Weatherwise perfect evening slight breeze blowing throughout the show and full moon.

Prince and NPG minus Andy, Shelby and Liv walk on stage, "We are here, where are you" launch straight into Stratus this was absolutely mindblowing way to start the show, no lyrics just talked to us with the music (This phrase just kept going through my head "I want you to meet a few friends of mine, they're musicians"). He was shredding the guitar through the whole song with crazy Rock god faces, people were headbanging , others staring in awe , I was trying to do both, but I had to stop a quite a few times to just take in what I was witnessing and hearing, pure musical bliss . I'm still getting goosebumps just thinking about it while writing this, thankyou Prince for attending the soundcheck today(practice makes perfect). It must have gone on for over 10 minutes, and when it was over everyone was left wanting more and knowing they were in the right house tonight. "What a beautiful night, isnt it?" and into QofU/Fallin Instrumental and a real nice drawn out The One with plenty of passion and crowd involvement, Cassandra played a wonderful piano solo during the song that got plenty of love from the crowd. The whole band on stage for We live 2 get Funky more crazy guitar and faces all over this one and plenty of jumping around me. CnC continuing his amazing guitar playing, if you havent worked it out yet my favoured flavours of Prince are Dirty (N/A) and Guitar God (very much applicable) so I couldn't get enough. This led into Waiting in Vain with Andy, who I'm sorry to say can sing( ) and she worked the crowd too...more on this later. "When will we b Paid" was beautifully sung by Liv, which segued into powerfully sung People Get Ready by Shelby both were great. We were getting plenty of love and we were giving plenty of love back. LRC was played a little differently with only brief guitar at the beginning. This is the first time that Prince put down the guitar from the opening, maybe those fingers needed some resting. During the song the whole crowd was handclapping until one point Prince motioned to us he didnt want the handclap but fingersnaps, so we all fingersnapped to LRC priceless (...guess I was wrong about finger resting too ). Andy sang Look of Love, I'm not totally familiar with the song so I dont know whether there was another song, but when it seemd Look of Love had finished she moved right of centre onto a lower stage between the barrier and the main stage and sang sitting singing with minmal backing, she had the crowd in the palm of her hands and the crowd applauded appreciatively, where she let out a flirty "Ti Amo" to raptuous applause. I was thinking this is the crossroads where does he go from here and the first couple of notes of the next song well, I think most us felt that way the first time we ever heard Empty Room live and I've never had the privilege to hear this gem live previously. Many around me didnt know the song, but the masterful guitar, had them sharing more of these type of looks also during Colonized Mind what a brilliant track. Then Andy came on stage with dark sunglasses and rock bitch attitude for really cool Foxy Lady with just her and the power trio on stage. Morris Hayes was in the wings going nuts during this song.

And then the party began with Sly's song which went into a really long jam with full crowd participation, then as is common Prince grabbed Ida's bass. At the start of the bass jam there was some really weird sounds coming out, to me it seemed that there was something not right, he was fiddling with knobs, pedals and tuning, all apologies if this was some awesome bass technique that my musical ignorance wouldn't allow me to comprehend. After this "questionable" start, the rest was thumping and resonating through my whole body. Controversy followed, this song is just timeless I challenge anyone not to twitch a single muscle, full length version played with lots of funky guitar, with Prince continually breaking it down and then thrashing during "clap your hands, stomp your feet" frenzy. Sexy Dancer followed and it was all Sexy Dancer not Le Freak, Liv was shaking plenty of booty and busting some serious moves. There was just so much energy through to this point and it just kept on going with Play that Funky Music, Prince was laughing at us during the song. Alphabet St with rocking guitar went into "Foot on The Rock" apologies to Bill Withers for not knowing his song. Shhh was off the chart with Jon doing solos both at the start and the finish of the song and Prince letting loose on the guitar and the girls seated on a pouf for the entire song. He had the crowd singing a quiet Shhh during the song and it was different in this regard to other versions. That was the end of the main set, I dont know what the time is on it, but it would have been close to 1.5 hours nonstop. Breaking it down further, Prince had guitar in hand for the entire set apart from LRC. Prince was on stage for all of it apart from couple of minutes between People get Ready and Look of Love. What is not awesome about that? He was very generous giving all the bandmembers their moment to shine, and we the crowd loved all of it, Prince, and the NPG.

The encores started with Make U feel my Love with Liv singing and Cassandra playing the purple piano, by the next verse Shelby and Andy had joined them around the Piano and finally Ida was around the piano with all girls singing the song. Often there is a flatspot when Prince is not on stage, not this time, the crowd cheered approvingly at this rendition by the NPG girls. Cassandra continued on the piano for the opening notes of Purple Rain, but Prince came on stage and led her away from the piano by the arm back to where her keyboard rig, the entire time talking to her, just seemd strange, as I expected her to stay on the piano. The Purple Rain confetti fell on us, at one stage it was funny seeing Prince trying to wave away this annoying piece of confetti that was in an eddy current around him, and that was it for the night.

Oh yeah, we continued singing the Ooh, Ooh, Ooh from the end of the song for a good while until the band came back. That the roadies were sweeping away confetti off the stage, was no brainer that was more gas left in the tank?

2nd Encore Disco Heat had everyone in a frenzy again, with vocals by Shelby and Liv pumping the crowd and out of a flash Prince was between them on stage with Baby I'm a Star, pulling faces he was having as great a time.

This where I'm a bit hazy because I'm pretty sure the band went off stage, but princevault indicates they continued playing. There's no doubt about the songs, just that I thought that there was a break.

The Bird/Jungle Love/Love Bizarre was crazy, just a huge party all of us at the front were jumping from side to side doing the bird, we were chanting "I like funky music". The amazing thing was the band were having ball they smiling, laughing at us and between themselves.

Another "goodnight" from Prince, this time we kept chanting "I like funky music" without relent, until they came back.

3rd (4th?) Encore Wanna be Startin somethin was so much fun, Liv and Shelby starting singing it, with Prince in between them camping it up with impressions of "Who wrote that song" and "Not on this stage you dont", then he sang it together with them even putting in a trademark Jacko spin, with his hand to his head and the bent knee. This morphed into Cool with Ida driving that bass and Prince going around the NPG members asking the Are you Hot- No, Why-because I'm cool refrain. And then he did the old skool dance, magic, with crowd roaring approval.

Prince was getting to bidding us goodnight again, but we had already started up the oh-we-oh chant, the crowd was having such a blast we did not want it to end.

Band back 4th (5th?) encore Cassandra at the purple Piano, Prince on guitar Sometimes in Snows in April, icing on the cake, on top of the other 6 layers.

"Thankyou goodnight", but we had already started up the oh-we-oh chant. Yeah where have I heard that before, but wait, the plot thickens. big bloke comes on stage starts ripping setlists off the stage floor and then rips Prince's guitar pedals and takes them off stage. Unperturbed, we maintain the oh-we-oh chant for what seems like an eternity, as long as they haven't shipped that piano off stage, no guitar pedals are not going to stop us.

5th (6th) Encore crowd loved the return of the band as they were off for a bit longer this time and the pedals scenes created some apprehension. Prince jumps up on the piano, with huge roar to sing If I was your girlfriend, this was just too much, brother was still putting out like he was at the start of the show. He really nailed it, in the zone all night. So then he teased us a little, before "Do you mind if we do one more?" Kiss and they were gone.

We did try to keep oh-we-oh chant going, but this time they took the mikes and after some flashing of stage lights starting ripping the stage down. Jon came out on stage and caused a few rumbles when he tossed a couple of pair drumsticks into the crowd.

What a night. Prince and band were on song all night every single member put into a great performance. Prince's guitar playing was impeccable, he just burned the guitar up during that main set. He was in a joyous mood all night, laughing, smiling, teasing, the ultimate musician, showman, and bandleader.

What made it different from last year, apart from couple of bandmembers is that he played full length version of the songs rather than trying to fit too many songs in. Dont get me wrong I enjoyed last year's concert, but letting the songs breathe a little rather soundbiting.

This was an incredible show, to me the outstanding feature was the balance, in the setlist, the NPG member's singing parts, the guitar set, the party set. It's the hardest part to get right, tonight it was perfect, the crowd responded with their love and Prince & the NPG gave us all their love.

Must thank Udo, dont know you, but you got to me enough(mind games) to make me go back on my original decision to not go. Hope you enjoyed yourself.

The arena wasn't too big wouldn' take more than 8-10000, I dont know how full it is was, only look forward during a show. Sound was really good, brought my earplugs after having read the reviews of the other shows, but didnt have to use them.

Merchandise - Official stand there were a couple of shirts for €20, tambourines €35 and guitar picks €5, no programs(sorry Serpan). There was a different stand set up by what seemed a local record store that was selling the US Lotusflower CD for €20.

Footnote:

Miss Andy can sing and her stagecraft has potential, her guitar playing I ddn't hear too much just a little during the start of Purple Rain where Prince was near her and playing with the knob on her guitar like on Le Grand Journal. While Prince was singing If I was Girlfriend she was doing her now customary sketching, she drew some girl with a beret, which was thrown into the crowd by the roadies ripping up the stage. She's got a really good arm on her, would make a good cricket or baseball outfielder (if it dont workout with Prince) the way she threw the t-shirts into the crowd.

She is very pretty and for those interested she wore Black tight leggings with glittery top, Black boots and Diamond(Cubic Zirconia?) earwraps on each ear. I never look at this stuff, but hey busted I was perving.

[Edited 7/16/11 16:59pm]

Wow what a show!

My favorite part is when he said, "I will play what ever songs I want and with whoever I want now stop analyzing everything I do and get your own life"

Stage looked like this:

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http://prince.org/msg/12/...?&pg=2

[Edited 7/17/11 10:51am]

Great pics!

udo said:

Great pics!

As posted previously by me here, it's even my own photobucket links

http://prince.org/msg/12/...?&pg=2

Well, thanks again.

On my way from the railway station to the Giuliana field I did not see any posters or whatever for the Festival and/or Prince.