BBC Radio 6 Music ‏@BBC6Music 5m Prince personally handed THIS to @matteveritt yesterday. Full update before 8am. pic.twitter.com/OxwmkoCBp2

Malloy said:

What about tour dates??? 2 'press conferences' and no info!

That is the art of c ommunication.

BTW: Any transcripts of these press thingies available?

This is on the UK ITV news website;

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-02-05/prince-plays-secret-gig-in-small-north-london-venue-ahead-of-uk-tour-announcement/

Radio6 right now

I can't imagine Prince playing outside of London for this small stint, shame but it cuts down on his travel and stuff. He knows fans will travel to see him if they are 'dedicated' enough although that's not always simple, I'm resigned to thinking I won't be able to make any of the dates due to work commitments.

Shame he's not doing Birmingam Institute, that's a nice small venue, saw Andy Allo there last November and Har Mar Superstar too. Got to chat to them both which was fun.

No dates, no venues confirmed, but similar to

Electric ballroom

Ronnie scotts

bag of nails

not O2 - different band

cheap tickets like $10 a ticket keep low!

didn't rule out glastonbury

shows to be recorded

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KeithyT said:

You got if Johnny haha, we are posting the same.

Prince loves ping pong!

KeithyT said:

Cheap tix and small venues but best of all, open ended stay, so hopefully will give us a good chance to see him

I am all over this. Saw the Koko gig a few years back and want some more....

andykeen said:

Getting a bit bored of this now.

Snap FFS

udo said:

MatthewBest said:

t annoyingly I'm working until 6.45pm and I have a feeling just rocking up to the door at 7pm isn't going to cut it. I strongly suspect I'd need to be there a bit earlier than that so it looks like I'm going to miss out.

If you work nearby you will go over there to let us know what is happening, right?\

If the weather is bad and if it's a late show you might even get in...

Yes, of course. I will wander over there at lunchtime, and will try to pop round later in the afternoon and let everyone know what I see, though I'm pretty sure there will be people updating from the queue anyway.

I think that Prince has essentially done a Paul McCartney when he kicked off Wings and arrived without bookings!
The Camden ballroom knows what he's like and has done their best but he's killed their website already!
He's also reckoned without the 48 hour tube strike (I have arrived in London independent of the news and had reckoned without it too so big problemos ahead!) which probably accounts for why they couldn't run a 3am show since staff possibly wouldn't have got to work or home. The strike started to kick in at about 9pm.

Expect this to pan out reasonably in coming days on getting an opportunity to see him.
Don't leap before you've got a good look as it's easy to blow a lotta money fast on cabs.

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I do hope there will a proper plan and tickets able to be purchased after today, if not, looks like i'll be telling the boss I need time off next week for "Personal reasons" (or else i wont get time off at short notice) and keeping weds thurs and friday all free to travel down at the drop of a hat!

Considering driving down from Stamford/Peterborough area this afternoon. Will see how much work I get done (not much I expect). At least it's North London

XSX said:

I think that Prince has essentially done a Paul McCartney when he kicked off Wings and arrived without bookings!
The Camden ballroom knows what he's like and has done their best but he's killed their website already!
He's also reckoned without the 48 hour tube strike (I have arrived in London independent of the news and had reckoned without it too so big problemos ahead!) which probably accounts for why they couldn't run a 3am show since staff possibly wouldn't have got to work or home. The strike started to kick in at about 9pm.

Expect this to pan out reasonably in coming days on getting an opportunity to see him.
Don't leap before you've got a good look as it's easy to blow a lotta money fast on cabs.

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Their website has been down since yesterday afternoon before all this, they are either updating it for prince, or its actually just problems their end, but they did announce ont heir facebook early afternoon that their site was down due to issues

XSX said:

THEDAYSOFWILD said:

Yes indeed.

Pics or it didn't happen!

• I work in Camden so the location is good for me but I would much prefer some sort of ticket system as queuing and not knowing whether I could get in or not is not at all appealing. A few years ago I would have been gutted at missing last night but it has got me thinking that I am not up for a flashmob type gig.
• If we have all been glued to sites and couldn't work this out how did people know about the Ballroom?
• New report on local LBC radio this morning said that he played 'in front of up to 3oo people' which is certainly small and it is a small venue but I would have thought capacity was more than that, certainly seems it when it is open with the market stalls. Godd to see everyone's updates and comments. Cheers.