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PRINCE and 3rdEyeGirl will be playing Portugal this Saturday!

It will be one show!

Tickets are on sale NOW and can be purchased HERE!!!!!

The tickets are 50 Euros and it is a venue that holds 3,340

-DocFB

Diagnosis: Portugal, do U have a "Groovy Potential" To "FunkNRoll"...?

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Why only 50€ considering Montreux was around 150€?

Weird price policy.

Grats to all the ppl in Lisboa that wanna attend the show.

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Tickets are not selling very fast. Only half of the 3400 sold after 24hrs. Compared to how fast the Paradiso shows sold (3000 tickets in minutes), this is slow. Has there not been a lot of publicity around this show in Portugal? Just curious.

donkeykong said:

Tickets are not selling very fast. Only half of the 3400 sold after 24hrs. Compared to how fast the Paradiso shows sold (3000 tickets in minutes), this is slow. Has there not been a lot of publicity around this show in Portugal? Just curious.

Not a lot of publicity that I can see. Add to that the fact that governmental austerity measures wrecked a LOT of people's finances, and the fact that Prince doesn't seem to be that famous anymore around here.

His original generation of followers has coasted for the most part (the Portuguese tend to settle down in a couch in front of TV immediately after they get married and have kids), and the younger music consumers don't seem that interested in anything beyond the cute pop star of the week trending on facebook, or the garagey kind of trend doing the rounds.

Also keep in mind it's mid-Summer, so a lot of people are in vacation by the seaside... The country basically shuts down for August.

Anyway........

I'LL BE THERE!!!

I haven't been too excited about the 3rdEyeGirl stuff, but I sure am excited about this live show. It will be my tenth Prince gig (1st one Spain 1990), and the first one since London O2 in 2008 (went to the shortest and universally elected worst show of the whole set! LOL)

BTW mods, could you please fix the spelling of the country's name on the thread title? It's a bit annoying to say the least.

"The Portuguese tend to settle down on a couch in front of the TV immediately after they get married and have kids"

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That struck my funny bone.

hyperpessimist said:

and the first one since London O2 in 2008

2007

emile58 said:

Question of U

emile58 said:

My friend said he also played noting compares to you and purple rain.

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Prince in great shape tonight in Lisbon. Out of the 11 times I've seen him, tonight was possibly among my top 3 - which is saying something, considering I twice saw him among an audience of 300, and considering the fact that most think of him as a has-been, and indeed he's getting on a bit.

He seems to have perfected his showmanship skills to the extreme, and to have understood how to overcome the dead end of his prior superstar status: invoke the ghost of Hendrix and the legacy of P-Funk. His guitar playing is phenomenal as ever (he never seems to get enough credit for the incredible guitarist he is), yet for the limited aesthetic palette he develops, he is so good at his particular musical language.

Of course this is all a pastiche in the end, as original contexts and essential ingredients are gone, never to return, but what a joy. I looked around and saw people genuinely moved by the experience: and it was -not- just nostalgia. It was ontological, visceral, intuitive.

hyperpessimist said:

Prince in great shape tonight in Lisbon. Out of the 11 times I've seen him, tonight was possibly among my top 3 - which is saying something, considering I twice saw him among an audience of 300, and considering the fact that most think of him as a has-been, and indeed he's getting on a bit.

He seems to have perfected his showmanship skills to the extreme, and to have understood how to overcome the dead end of his prior superstar status: invoke the ghost of Hendrix and the legacy of P-Funk. His guitar playing is phenomenal as ever (he never seems to get enough credit for the incredible guitarist he is), yet for the limited aesthetic palette he develops, he is so good at his particular musical language.

Of course this is all a pastiche in the end, as original contexts and essential ingredients are gone, never to return, but what a joy. I looked around and saw people genuinely moved by the experience: and it was -not- just nostalgia. It was ontological, visceral, intuitive.

nice review: "It was ontological, visceral, intuitive" !!

powersoul99 said:

.Sounds like a good show, but pointless putting setlist, just say "the same as all 3rd eye girl setlists, nothing new".

Oh, not fair to call it "nothing new", believe me: this 2 and a half-hour concert with 4 encores and both seemingly tireless musicians and audience was truly special.

Yesterday he played games with the audience that seemed to be straight out of a 1970s P-Funk gig, while making it all extremely funny: same short sequence played about 6 times, in increasing speed, while the audience tried to dance fast enough to keep up. Just pure FUN!

The thing is, and I realised this yesterday, with Prince live the setlists are not that important in the end. I must say I listened to quite a few recordings of recent concerts and yes, they sound predictable when taken out of the whole experience.

Yet Prince's onstage magic goes beyond the "numbers" - he is a master of collective catharsis. It's about the pace, the sense of belonging, the charisma, the nods to the past mixed with a vertigo of not knowing what to expect next - even if playing the same songs, he finds endless ways of making them all fit into a unique and unrepeatable whole.

hyperpessimist said:

hyperpessimist said:

powersoul99 said:

.Sounds like a good show, but pointless putting setlist, just say "the same as all 3rd eye girl setlists, nothing new".

The thing is, and I realised this yesterday, with Prince live the setlists are not that important in the end. I must say I listened to quite a few recordings of recent concerts and yes, they sound predictable when taken out of the whole experience.

Yet Prince's onstage magic goes beyond the "numbers" - he is a master of collective catharsis. It's about the pace, the sense of belonging, the charisma, the nods to the past mixed with a vertigo of not knowing what to expect next - even if playing the same songs, he finds endless ways of making them all fit into a unique and unrepeatable whole.

Thank you for your review. You perfectly describe what makes Prince live so extraordinary and uncomparable! With other musician playing a setlist over and over on tour, it means they really play the same songs, the same way, every night - but with Prince the same songs sound different every time he plays them!!! When listening to the 3rdeyegirl concert audios you can hear many different versions of each song played from show to show. I don't think many artists put so much effort into their performances!!!

Plus, when you are actually there at the concert you can add his stage presence and all the things he does on stage to truly make every show a different experience!

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Looks like a sold out night (P/3EG have been Tweeting out clips from the Portugal show)....Prince seems to be having fun again...That's a good thing...

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