Hello everyone! Eeek, my first post here... How exciting (and slightly intimidating)... but here we go.

So, yeah, today I was half the length of a London bus from the greatest musical genius of our time.

I sat in a purple-curtained studio near Covent Garden for half an hour, first of all watching a long promo montage about how amazing Prince is (with contributions from Pharrell Williams, Maceo Parker, Wendy & Lisa, Joni Mitchell, and for some unfathomable reason Salma Hayek), culminating in the Superbowl footage, then waiting patiently while a bloke who I presumed was the concert promoter recited a load of facts and figures: he's playing 21 nights at the O2, the ticket price will be £31.21 (see what he did there?), he'll be playing lots of hits, he'll be playing in the round on the same symbol-shaped stage he used at Superbowl, blah blah.

Then the curtains parted, and the little feller himself stepped out. The most interesting facts were that he's looking for somewhere to live in London (possibly only for August), he's giving a copy of his new album away free to everyone who attends the shows, he'll be having a variety of different support acts over the 21 nights and he hopes Amy Winehouse will be one of them, and these will be his last London shows for a long time (the paper press release I received afterwards said 'last ever') because he needs time "to study and travel".

There were giggles when, asked who inspires him, he answered "The prophets from The Bible", and, when asked what he needed to study, he said "The Bible". I think that might have annoyed him, because he walked off straight afterwards.

Anyway, here's the film clip...

[YouTube snip - luv4u]

Apologies for the shaky camerawork. I wasn't trembling with nerves, nor masturbating frantically. I was trying to operate a dictaphone at the same time.

I didn't ask a question. If I did, it would have been along the lines of "Will you be singing any songs of a sexual or profane nature?", but I think all the Bible stuff probably answers that one anyway. (I'm not expecting "Darling Nikki", "Sister" or "Gett Off"...)

Oh, and then on the way home, I saw Gary Numan getting off the tube.

squirrelgrease said:

ditto. u rock in a real way and thank u 4 sharing.... Oh by the way on your username is that in error or was the "n" intentionally left out

okay now, you know the question we're all wanting the answer to....


WHAT WAS GARY NUMAN WEARING?!?!?

Salma Hayek would have been interviewed because she directed his video for Te Amo Corazon and she's pretty and famous and he's still a pussy hound no matter what JW clothes he's wearing

he's giving a copy of his new album away free to everyone who attends the shows, he'll be having a variety of different support acts over the 21 nights and he hopes Amy Winehouse will be one of them,

why would you snip his youtube if it his own video footage? That is not illegal whatsoever (nor a copyright violation).

txladykat said:

if i were filming my cat staring out the window and suddenly prince appeared walking down my street, could i post the video of it? i mean, it's my damn video, my damn cat, my damn street. i can't help it if prince walked into my shot!

Anx said:

u most certainly can. you can video him walking through an airport (if you wanna risk his security guys ) and you then own the video.

txladykat said:

i wonder if prince ever accidentally walked into someone else's shot and then demanded to be given the video? i can just see some poor little girl crying at showbiz pizza because prince ran in to use the men's room while they were filming her opening her presents.

Anx said:

now THAT is a great mental picture and worthy of a ROFLMAO!

I've been over to look at it about 10 times this morning and I noticed that when he spoke of the bible people laughed and he ended it. Thanks for info but most folks think it won't be up there long.

I just watched that video of Prince the other day and first I didn't hear anything about a new album {maybe bcuz I didn't understand a Damn word that was coming out of the reporters mouths} &, second I don't think Prince was sour about the little chuckles at least I didn't c any hurt or discomfort on his face. He could have left right after that simply cuz he was ret ta go!

he's still a pussy hound no matter what JW clothes he's wearing