KeithyT said:

3QuartersInAGlass said:

Just back from the second show now. Do no want to come across smug in anyway, but this is how it played out. I'd been on here all day, and monitoring twitter, umming and ahhing and at 9.45pm decided to get a cab and just go. I got to camden at 10.40pm and the queue was minimal... I must have waited 10-15 minutes with some very friendly people, paid cash on the door (no slips needed!), strolled up to an empty bar, got a drink, turned around and P walked out I couldnt have been easier. The set list is as above..... no Bambi though, which was a massive shame personally but it was a f*cking awesome show.... only downer was some of the crowd, they didnt have a clue with recent songs or even old classics, and people around me were dead for call and response. I grabbed a set list and will upload tomorrow... I have the P bug all over again....

Now THAT seems like the way to do it. If it pans out for you it's a little down to luck of course, but wouldn't it be great if more of us tried it like that [Edited 2/5/14 23:03pm]

So please that so many of you guys got to see the show - or even both shows! Doesnt this bring you back in time to your youth. For those that did queue all day, I admire your tenacity!

LeRoy said:

Northern Lurker here...

Was no way I would have got to the gigs last night but just wanted to say its great to see so many fans getting there.

I was at the Koko gig after the announcement of 21 nights and remember the feeling of getting tickets quickly, getting on a train the following day and turning up, almost in a daze that everything was happening so quickly. Then seeing Prince in such a small and intimate venue was the best ever! I've seen him live 10 times in total now, but there is nothing like a small venue!

To do all this in an even more compressed time, and with all the waiting people had to do....

Its great to hear all the tales!

Here's hoping the 'Hit and run' tour hangs around long enough that I can get to one....

What an AMAZING day. I can't hear a thing, my ears are ringing so loud.

Queued all day with some of the nicest people I ever met, including daysofwild (hope you got your car OK). We were in early and he was already on stage, which was nuts. The whole first show was waaaaay too much to take in. Sensory overload. The second show was either better, or i'd just calmed down enough to actually see and feel what was going on. By the time he did the sampler set at the end, the crowd was going completely nuts. Best sample set ever.

The band were amaziing and Prince is like a 20 year old at these small gigs. JUst too much, toooooo much.

I'm going back to bed

What do you think about the sampler set?

udo said:

What do you think about the sampler set?

I think it blew the roof. It was nuts good. In a small room, when WDC came on, I thought I was going to go pop. Housequake too. Awesome.

SometimesIwonder said:

So question is... Is there a show 2nite?

Great write up, glad you got to see both shows. 2nite? No idea but I'm far too tired and achey to even consider it.

So question is... Is there a show 2nite? All seems pretty quiet about a show. I'll have to back home today if there's no show, but can stay one more night if one is announced. (Keeping my fingers crossed!) [Edited 2/6/14 1:15am]

Wow - thats some write up - sounds amazing!!

So the 3rd eye girl countdown is currently on 14 hrs.... what is it counting down to? (Or does it just have a mind of its own today? It did seem to jump around a bit yesterday evening)

The shows sounded amazing, especially the second one....and I'm super jealous that people just walked straight into the second show with practically now queue, how fantastic! But....

/

.....the chaos of the unruly queuing for the first show really has put me off. I had a mate who text me last night to say he'd been in the queue for best part of the day, but got shoved to the floor when the crowd surged. He's now nursing a massively swollen left ankle. He didn't get into the first show despite being outside in the rain for almost five hours, and by the time he made it into the second show his ankle was too painful to really enjoy it (though he did say it was still a great show). How Prince's management didn't forsee something like this happening is beyond me. You don't bowl up into Camden with one of the biggest music stars on the planet and not have more than two security guards with bad attitudes policing a crowd like that. Unless they do proper ticket sales, I'm giving this "tour" a miss. I love Prince, but not enough to injure myself or risk doing jail time for chinning someone who pushes into a queue!!

DaveT said:

The shows sounded amazing, especially the second one....and I'm super jealous that people just walked straight into the second show with practically now queue, how fantastic! But....

/

.....the chaos of the unruly queuing for the first show really has put me off. I had a mate who text me last night to say he'd been in the queue for best part of the day, but got shoved to the floor when the crowd surged. He's now nursing a massively swollen left ankle. He didn't get into the first show despite being outside in the rain for almost five hours, and by the time he made it into the second show his ankle was too painful to really enjoy it (though he did say it was still a great show). How Prince's management didn't forsee something like this happening is beyond me. You don't bowl up into Camden with one of the biggest music stars on the planet and not have more than two security guards with bad attitudes policing a crowd like that. Unless they do proper ticket sales, I'm giving this "tour" a miss. I love Prince, but not enough to injure myself or risk doing jail time for chinning someone who pushes into a queue!!

Totally agree Dave.

Lez said:

Prince on radio 4! [Edited 2/6/14 0:45am]

What was said?

powersoul99 said:

So basically you admit you are one of the wankers that stopped others that had been there for hours waiting to get in.

Kinda.

My wife has been a fan longer than me, we met at the O2 through an org meetup and there was no way I was going to queue up from before 2pm and not have her there with me. She was there in spirit from 2pm and would have been there at that time too had it not been the one day a week that she works and also needed to arrange a baby sitter. She is everything to me, so think whay you will, it means nothing to me .

But to address some of your points, others is plural, I stopped one person getting in. If that one person was you, then I am sorry but I could have done what people around me were doing and bringing in 4 or more friends, which I didn't. Nor did I seek out any other orgers and try and cut in myself, I got there when I got there, went to the back and took it from there.

As for the name calling part. My wife is awesome and pretty hot too, so I haven't needed to be one of those in a long time.

Everybody around me had multiple people joining them and it was so bad. Friends came, then their friends came and it ended up with more than a dozen extra people just from the people 2 in front and 2 behind. But was it really their fault? Nope. Do I blame any of them? Nope. In fact, they were all really cool people and I had a great time chatting with everyone who did come along.

The reality is that the venue was totally unprepared for last night, it would have been simple to do something like they did for the late show with the slips being handed out. Some time around 2pm there was a guy in a suit, obviousy someone from the Ballroom, talking on the phone about the night before when they came out with Prince and how that was nothing and tonight was going to be really bad. He seemed important and could easily have arranged something, I think he is probably more responsible for what happened than anyone.

So, all things considered, am I sorry? No. Would I do the same again? Yes. Would I have been gutted if all those queueing for 6+ hours in front of me were holding a place for their most loved partner and I didn't get in? No. Would I have been gutted if I didn't get in because all those queuing in front of me called up their mates, who called up their mates and none of them could recite a chorus from anything other than Purple Rain? Fuck yeah.

[Edited 2/6/14 1:58am]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01rsvzj

DaveT said:

The shows sounded amazing, especially the second one....and I'm super jealous that people just walked straight into the second show with practically now queue, how fantastic! But....

/

.....the chaos of the unruly queuing for the first show really has put me off. I had a mate who text me last night to say he'd been in the queue for best part of the day, but got shoved to the floor when the crowd surged. He's now nursing a massively swollen left ankle. He didn't get into the first show despite being outside in the rain for almost five hours, and by the time he made it into the second show his ankle was too painful to really enjoy it (though he did say it was still a great show). How Prince's management didn't forsee something like this happening is beyond me. You don't bowl up into Camden with one of the biggest music stars on the planet and not have more than two security guards with bad attitudes policing a crowd like that. Unless they do proper ticket sales, I'm giving this "tour" a miss. I love Prince, but not enough to injure myself or risk doing jail time for chinning someone who pushes into a queue!!

Completely agree with this, it's tickets or nothing for me now. As word gets round, the 'spontaneous' shows are not going to get much better.

aiden said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01rsvzj

Thanks for sharing

thisisreece said:

Lez said:

Prince on radio 4! [Edited 2/6/14 0:45am]

What was said?

He's here for a month!

Kiran Sharma just tweeted Kiran Sharma ‏@KIKITkiran 6m aww v kind "@Jacadimus: Major love to @KIKITkiran for last night. A true inspiration as a fellow artist manager. Roll on Ronnie and Albert!" Reference to poss future gigs at Ronnie Scotts and Royal Albert Hall?

DoMeBaby69 said:

thisisreece said:

What was said?

He's here for a month!

The journalist they were interviewing said it was a rumour he could be here for a month.

abigailj said:

So the 3rd eye girl countdown is currently on 14 hrs.... what is it counting down to? (Or does it just have a mind of its own today? It did seem to jump around a bit yesterday evening)

I saw that too but on closer inspection its counting up so it most be referring to last night.

udo said:

SquirrelMeat said:

Funking superb for a tenner.

Sure, I can agree.

But was there anything he hasn't done before?

Please tell...

This is an utterly ridiculous thing to say.

I missed Let's Go Crazy, but assume it was the reloaded version, Funk N Roll, the slowed down Never take The Place Of Your Man, Fix Ur Life Up and Plectrum Electrum, all new to the UK and new to the 3rdEyet tour in general I believe.

Has he ever played Chaos and Disorder in the UK apart from the rock aftershow in 2007? Has he played it more than a handful of times outside of the 3rdEye tour? She's Always In My Hair hasn't been heard live in the UK for a long while, neither has Something In The Water.

Compared to the O2 main shows and the Hop Farm festival show, this show was 100% new.

People here sometimes forget that we live in a slightly skewed world as far as Prince is concerned. We see all of the set lists and listen to most of the boots. It can really distort perspective. Yes the shows had beome a but samey from Musicology to Welcome 2 America but if you really stop and think about it you just can't apply this to the 3rdEye tour.

This is new, this is fresh and boy does it rock. And on top of all that, it was a measley tenner!

DoMeBaby69 said:

thisisreece said:

What was said?

He's here for a month!

That would imply that he has a planning for the album's release.

He was in London to celebrate the album's release, right?

So we'll see what comes of this.

bluenose63 said:

Kiran Sharma just tweeted Kiran Sharma ‏@KIKITkiran 6m aww v kind "@Jacadimus: Major love to @KIKITkiran for last night. A true inspiration as a fellow artist manager. Roll on Ronnie and Albert!" Reference to poss future gigs at Ronnie Scotts and Royal Albert Hall?

bluenose63 said:

MidasTouch said:

bluenose63 said:

Kiran Sharma just tweeted Kiran Sharma ‏@KIKITkiran 6m aww v kind "@Jacadimus: Major love to @KIKITkiran for last night. A true inspiration as a fellow artist manager. Roll on Ronnie and Albert!" Reference to poss future gigs at Ronnie Scotts and Royal Albert Hall?

Wasn't @Jacadimus where people got stuff about tickets at 2pm yesterday, though?

he certainly was. I'm still raging about that

kangafunk said:

I agree that it's so much better knowing you've got a ticket, but one positive about doing it this way is cutting out the touts. Better crowd control is the only thing I'd change from last night, maybe barriers all the way up the street.

True, but I actually consider a queue jumper to be worse than a ticket tout. Least with touts you can still get a ticket if all your other avenues have been exhausted. You can haggle with a tout to, and I find it no worse than being hammered by Ticketmaster for extortionate postage and "ticket handling" fees when tickets are officially on sale. So give me touts over 6 hours standing in the rain, shoving, pushing, and fighting any day of the week!