GeurtWalraven said:

I went to see Peter Gabriel in 2010. He performed without guitars and drums. Just an orchestra. It bored me to death. I'm affraid it will be the same with this upcoming tour by Prince. Ive seen almost every tour from Prince from 1986 (except 1998) till 2014 in Europe and i never was excited about his ''piano-medley's'' of songs. Also, it's impossible to perform some songs just on a piano, recorded orginally with a full band.

It's being reported that half the show will be piano based and the second half with a full band.

Sly said:

SquirrelMeat said:

Hard call. Ticketmasteer have the more robust site/servers, thats for sure. I think its 50/50.

My bigger concern is that they will have different volumes of allocated seats to sell. Who has the most is unknown.

Yes, this is my headache. I imagine Ticketmaster will have the greater allocation, however tey do sting you with the highest processing fee!

Is there any reason you couldn't buy two tickets from each one?

murph said:

GeurtWalraven said:

I went to see Peter Gabriel in 2010. He performed without guitars and drums. Just an orchestra. It bored me to death. I'm affraid it will be the same with this upcoming tour by Prince. Ive seen almost every tour from Prince from 1986 (except 1998) till 2014 in Europe and i never was excited about his ''piano-medley's'' of songs. Also, it's impossible to perform some songs just on a piano, recorded orginally with a full band.

It's being reported that half the show will be piano based and the second half with a full band.

I'm really curious to read about how these shows go down. I don't know what to expect, but I can think of worst case and best case scenarios.

Worst case is he doesn't actually do the piano and mic thing, and instead does a lot of sampler set, a lot of ONA medley, and then calls the band on stage. This sounds like a regular prince show so as a 'worst case' it's still not terrible.

Best case is he manages to put on an entertaining show just with the piano and mic. I don't know how he would do it, but if he did, it would be amazing.

murph said:

GeurtWalraven said:

I went to see Peter Gabriel in 2010. He performed without guitars and drums. Just an orchestra. It bored me to death. I'm affraid it will be the same with this upcoming tour by Prince. Ive seen almost every tour from Prince from 1986 (except 1998) till 2014 in Europe and i never was excited about his ''piano-medley's'' of songs. Also, it's impossible to perform some songs just on a piano, recorded orginally with a full band.

It's being reported that half the show will be piano based and the second half with a full band.

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Tweet from this AM which has been deleted since...

COMPLETELY FALSE: The show at Paisley last Saturday is the tour template. Half a show with @Prince on piano n the other half with band. #wow

[Edited 11/12/15 18:45pm]

There isn't going to be a band.

kindofblue said:

Latest News from Konzerthaus: no ticket sale today! The Concert will be postponed! See also Promoters Homepage: njbn.at

What the hell is going on with that? Here I am in the office with the laptop and two phones ready to try to get tickets with no explanation on the ticket agency page. I'm only in Vienna for three weeks for work, and now I'm concerned that I will miss out on this rare opportunity.

Apparently all pre-sales are postponed for the whole tour?

Promoter says:

ACHTUNG! Der VVK-Start aller Termine auf der Europa Tour ist vom Künstler verschoben worden.
Wir informieren euch so schnell als möglich über den neuen VVK Start.

Google Translation:

ATTENTION! The presale start all dates on the European tour has been postponed by the artist.
We inform you as soon as possible about the new presale start.

[Edited 11/12/15 23:50pm]

"ATTENTION! The presale start all dates on the European tour has been postponed by the artist.We inform you as soon as possible about the new presale start!"

I've got a bad feeling about this now.

[Edited 11/12/15 23:51pm]

It would be nice to get some time to organize things like booking a flight and get a Hotel.

And I think that getting nice Venues at such short notice before Christmas is almost impossible.

But this is simple and they should have known before.

Always the same with these Concerts.

And in the end you have pepole there they only know Purple Rain.

"Shake your moneymaker"

Ticketmaster is still showing a countdown for sales today...does this mean only Vienna is on hold or these tickets as well will be?

Took the day off for this.................... Grrrrrrrrrrr. Being a Prince-fan is hard sometimes

UK Dates disappeared too...

pasquerto said:

Ticketmaster is still showing a countdown for sales today...does this mean only Vienna is on hold or these tickets as well will be?

The page at Gigs & Tours has changed as well. All the UK dates were listed about an hour ago. Now nothing.

http://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/prince/

data2000 said:

UK Dates disappeared too...

Gone off Gigs and Tours but countdown still on Ticketmaster

Assuming its still on, for those with experience of early and late performances, is there a rule of thumb as to which are better? The afternoon works better for me, but I imagine the evening gigs would be better for some reason

Gerard said:

Took the day off for this.................... Grrrrrrrrrrr. Being a Prince-fan is hard sometimes

As a friend of mine just said - we prince fans are all masochists and we are all much more crazy then him ...

I can still see them.

Tokyo said:

I can still see them.

THSHBirmingham on Twitter (the official venue) just tweeted its postponed!

Someone please chenge the title of this..... CONFIRMED?

Barcelona Amphitheatre tickets 500 Euros. A bit expensive I think even for a huge fan as i am.

remko said:

Someone please chenge the title of this..... CONFIRMED?

Dury Lane

Prince tickets

The on sale of Prince - Piano & a Microphone tour has been postponed and will not be going ahead at 10am this morning.

More details regarding purchasing tickets to follow.

I believe he has trouble getting Venues at such short notice and the whole thing will not take place in Dezember...

Maybe it will hapen with the release of the Purple Rain Special Edition.

#veryannoyed...what a disappointment...