just drove past Hifi and the queue is down swanston and then turns the corner and is down Collins st at least 500m. theres at least 5000 people out the front as the queue also runs up the other way from the front of Hifi towards Bourke st.

the first 700 are gettin in if they are lucky i would certainly say forget it. we kept driving and went home.

what really gets my goat is that to be at the front of the queue you would have had to miss the concert completely and not even have gone...they should make a concert ticket a pre-requisite to get in. We rushed from the last encore, jumped in a car and raced there to Hifi and the streets are RAMMED.

not fair!

I think there's many people out there who don't realise this is a PARTY without any sort of confirmation P will play. They only heard "Prince will b at Hi-Fi" and rushed of 2 stand in line, good luck 2 security with this many people around...

cops are turning up left right and centre

Blackout said:

just drove past Hifi and the queue is down swanston and then turns the corner and is down Collins st at least 500m. theres at least 5000 people out the front as the queue also runs up the other way from the front of Hifi towards Bourke st.

the first 700 are gettin in if they are lucky i would certainly say forget it. we kept driving and went home.

what really gets my goat is that to be at the front of the queue you would have had to miss the concert completely and not even have gone...they should make a concert ticket a pre-requisite to get in. We rushed from the last encore, jumped in a car and raced there to Hifi and the streets are RAMMED.

not fair!

Yep it's pretty crazy. We hung around at the end of the concert talking to security who said they hadn't got the final word on it being over for the night. Obviously the word came that Prince wasn't coming back out, but you could almost gaurantee that there would have been a thousand people outside the Hi-Fi by that point.

We drove past, but had already decided it was likely a lost cause, we just wanted to see what was going on, and damn is it mad out there. Cars everywhere, thousands of people lining up, trams stuck in traffic.

I'm glad I got to see him at Eatons Hill. I'm satisfied with that - plus I'm happy I got this tonight too.

so here is a quick vid of the current status of the queue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7SEUSlfyg

up collins , around the corner, up swanston for as far as you can see at the end there...forget it

Blackout said:

so here is a quick vid of the current status of the queue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7SEUSlfyg

up collins , around the corner, up swanston for as far as you can see at the end there...forget it

Thats pretty much what we did. I'm already home in bed.

KingFD said:

Blackout said:

so here is a quick vid of the current status of the queue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7SEUSlfyg

up collins , around the corner, up swanston for as far as you can see at the end there...forget it

Thats pretty much what we did. I'm already home in bed.

I am guessing that's the best decision !!!

Nice guitar pick, hopefully I will be getting this one anytime soon (from Sydney show)

Abandoned the queue after 90 minutes, so now home enjoying a glass of red wine. I wish they'd tweeted after the concert to give us a chance of getting there.

ZombieKitten said:

ZombieKitten said:

Anyone inside can you tell us if it's full?

I don't think we can expect many updates from inside. From my experience there at the St. Vincent gig, the reception was next to non-existent.

mrfreeze, how far are you from the entrance? I abandoned ship as the my spot in the queue reached the corner of Collins and Swanston around 1.20ish.

sabaisabai said:

we left 2:15am. oh well. it was madness. the extent of the cue when we got there straight after the concert at least 3000 people. we were at the front of the cue coz someone held us a spot, then we abondand ship after they let a lot in, then the npg arrived, then nothing for about an hour, no one else went in. we heard the gig would start at 3am. when we left the cue was only swanston street no longer. rumor said the venue is full, but we assumed that to be wrong given we saw only a few got through and in. such ashame missed princes entrance, but hell couldn't see a darn thing there were so many people there, and he is a shortie.

p.s. thank you to all the orgers/fans i met tonight at the arena cafe and also in the cue at the hi fi, special thanks goes to zombie kitten and her hubby for giving me a ride. it was nice meeting up with you all.

[Edited 5/30/12 10:31am]

mrfreeze said:

Prince is now in the building. Some good video of his entry will be popping up on YT

couldn't find any myself

peeps who were in line with me, they got in, thought they would. just couldn't stand any longer, prince come to my place!

I was in the line with about 5 or 6 friends . They all got in, I did not.
HOWEVER, apparently he didn't play a thing, just spun one or two records. By being kept outside, I was within 2 or 3 metres of Prince when he arrived to come through the main entrance. Again, I tried to get in the line but was pushed to the very back coz I was not close enough to the wall. Hung with some nice folks at the back of the line and one of them turned out to be the Org's Lust from NZ. Top bloke!
Anyway, we hang around just in hope miraculously getting in, which didn't happen.
HOWEVER, when the NPG left, they all started coming out the main entrance into their cars. By this time there were probably only 20 people still hanging outside. And eventually, out comes Princey again. He was trying to hide his face behind his collar (to hide from people's smartphones. Not my Nokia 3315, obviously) and again, I got quite close to him. So I didn't have to pay a cent and got close to one of my musical heroes

Oh and the Rod Laver gig was 10 times better thant the May 15th show that I also got to.

I'm going to bed, I've got a Tai Chi lesson in 5 hours

The best spot was to be outside when Prince entered, and left the building.

Bugger paying $25 to wait and really see nothing.

I was able to get a bunch of autographs in my tour book.

Easier to name who did not sign it:

Rashida - asked but talking to her friend and straight into car.

Shelby and Liv - Security directed them straight into car but one of the Twinz wrote in it and told security to hang on

Elisa was escorted straight to car and was hard to ask her, but the door opened and I asked if she could sign my tour book if OK with her and called me over to the car door.

Cassie, Ida and Andy then jumped in the car and signed it too.

Told Andy I bought his CD at tonights show and should of had that with me for him to sign.

He seemed really hapy I had got the CD.

Seeing some of the people come out I am glad I did not get in, they looked to of consumed too much alcohol and other substances

flyorra said:

mrfreeze said:

Prince is now in the building. Some good video of his entry will be popping up on YT

couldn't find any myself

Give it a day or 2.

The girl in front of me got awesome video of the arrival.

[Edited 5/30/12 20:03pm]

sometimes it paays to be a fan!

those of us who know ol P sometimes plays sometime doesnt wouldnt really have waited or wouldnt have been super mad

man! there are some pissed off joe public whom after hearing about bennets were sure it meant he was going to play.some real vitriol on FB

And that's the enigma that is Prince...you would think the fact there are a squillion fans bringing the city to a halt throught he night would guarantee a pumped up crowd and an electric performance...and it all turns out to be a bit of an anticlimax.

It just goes to show that with Prince you really never know what's going to happen, and you just need to take a chance and do what you can to see him, and be grateful for whatever you get. Frustrating, but predictably frustrating!

I know the ins and outs of being a fan, and we kinda thought this would happen last night, but when they setup a band on stage to tease you even further....... I thought that was a bit too much.

Im not pissed off, cause as we said, we expect this of Prince.

But everything about last night was PAINFUL!

Now I can put my feet up for another 10 years.

got in to hifi and was a let down. no playing just spun a few discs witht the dj. a security guard told me that when he came down the stairs, that he was going 2 hit the stage,

but suppposedly some1 grabbed him and that obviously pissed him off and he was gone soon after that.

the dumbass dj that was there was not much better, pro Prince crowd and he plays 4 songs,

in the 4-5 hours thatv we there, extralovable, love bizarre, gett off(remix version) and kiss, left

about 5am, ferw ppl still hanging around, but nothing was happening.

The speakers were distorting like a motherless child

that was tree Keepbustin, they kept cutting in and out. the band that played sounded alright though