(i posted it here as know one goes in the concert section)

What was ur favourite night at the o2??

mine is 21st september. brilliant song choice, great atmosphere and prince was on fire!!

Apart from the last night which was special for so many more reasons, best main show for me was 13th September or 6th September.

best nights were the 8/14 aftershow


and the last night cause this horrendous tour was finally over

L4OATheOriginal said:

how was it horrendous?

L4OATheOriginal said:

lol..really is the pity with being a prince fan as we know...having to put up with the comments of other prince fans.

Ooooh my favourite topic! I was there on 7 August and it was incredible, first time I ever heard PR live - astonishing. But my favourite was 6 September, such a brilliant atmosphere, and Prince was really on top form, and of course there was the aftershow.....

The main show on opening night Aug 1st was spectacular especially during the encore when Prince emerged from the audience after most of the people had already left the arena.....that was an incredible moment. The aftershow of the same night was a huge disapointment for me as Prince appeared after a veryyy looong time and when he finally got up on stage he seemed upset. He didn't look as if he was enjoying himself.
Sept 6 mainshow AND aftershow were unforgettable I still haven't recovered from the aftershow This was a profoundly intense experience.

they were all special for their own reasons

L4OATheOriginal said:

Interesting. I've been a fan for years, seen the guy probably 20+ times, from Lovesexy through pretty much all, with O2 the latest. I was so hyped for this concert. I went to ONA and thought it was awesome. Had my brother and our partners with us and I'd been talking up how incredible it was gonna be for months. Chr1st was I dissapointed! The only other time I'd been as dissapointed with was the Wembley stadium gig (equally bad IMO). More than anything though, it wasn't so much the songs, I just thought the sound was a bag of shyte. Far too quite. I remember all the wembley 'arena' gigs I've been to where it was so load and clear it was like wearing headphones. Coupled with being at the wrong end and hardly seeing the fella, it made for such a dissapointing nite.

Am i the only one who thought the sound was awful, or was it just the back end of the arena that was bad? I had faaaar more enjoyment at home watchin a dodgy copy of a musicology gig in the US than I did at the O2.

Nikeze said:

apparently the sound was how Prince wanted it not how it could have been but of the five nights i went the sound was pretty good on three of them and i had a sound engineer with me who thought the same on the 16th September but all were enjoyable concerts (having never seen Prince before) and we had a brilliant time (possibly being in a box helped)

Ellie said:

13th aftershow was also good in fact more like great

Favourite main show was Aug 7th. Simply electric.

Favourite aftershow was 13th Sept. Sunday night madness in the extreme! Of the 40 odd aftershows I've been to, this one topped them all.

6th Sept for the mainshow and a'show hands down for me out of the ones I went to, although the 18th was pretty special as it was the first aftershow and the lovely hat plus great track 'The Rules' and then of course 'Use Me' by Bill Withers and then his own classics Dorothy Parker and Love Bizarre.

RumAndRaisin said:

cause all he did was walk around the stage and do his occasionaly spin the best thing about it was the stage cause the material at the o2 was

now he can get his shit 2gether and do something like it was in 94-95

zsasz said:

i agree cause the ones that always lament 4 the days of old instead of forging ahead never want their beloved prince 2 xpand his music horizons instead of realizing that the london shows were nothing but the musicology tour on a different stage but mostly the same boring old songs. the saving grace was the aftershows

Nikeze said:

the ona tour was pure fire!!

I wouldn't know.....

ritaw said:

It was good, but 16th aftershow kicked it to the curb later in the week.

Sept 6th


..so I've heard...

didn't see one. wish he'd do 21 nights in madison square garden.
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August 18th because it was my first ever Prince concert.

21st Sept too, that whole day was amazing!

I went too the 6th Sept as well, didnt really enjoy the show too much though.It was good, but way prefered my other two shows I went too

Ellie said:

i heard that it was one of the best out of all the aftershows i missed i think this is probably the one i regret the most or maybe the hat night

as i said previously its a hard choice for me it would have to be either the 28/8 aftershow, 6th september mainshow or aftershow, 13th aftershow or the 21st aftershow i dunno i probably have one i liked more but those are the ones i can think of off the top of my head

yael72 said:

If it was the first aftershow, it probably wasn't set up as he wanted or something, I would imagine that's why he would be upset!

Tuesday 14th August was absolutely amazing.

Incredible aftershow as well, and I met Prince after it!

That same night I found out my American wife finally got granted her visa to come and live here permanently. It was an amazing night.

Militant said:

What did he say Militant?

purplepolitician said:

i would consider that but u know that will never happen with all the sports teams and events that r booked in2 the garden. not 2 mention he would have 2 change that setlist cause 21 nights of the same dribble won't roll in the NYC

Jeffiner said:

alot of people were taking photos as well which appeared to annoy him if i remember correctly something was even said about it but still seeing him in that red suit he wore to the grammys reminded me of that night

i am still surprised everytime i see him in a pair of shoes that match exactly to the material of the suit i always wonder if he picks the shoes or the suit first

he wore some great shoes the light up wedges or the heels covered in crystals have to be my favourites

16th Sept was my fav aftershow because it was the only night I got right to the front of the stage (as it was the only one where we didn't also go to the main show), and my friend got up to dance and high-fived him on stage, and we met him briefly after the show. But I couldn't say anything as I had no voice to speak with But he was so relaxed and funny during that show, it's the one I'd have picked to be at the front if I could.

18th Aug was my first aftershow and that was fucking amazing. I didn't have the best view though as I was standing at the back by the bar and my friend was mega tired because she was in the middle of moving house, so despite what was happening she left me to go and sit down in a corner. Mad cow!
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SquirrelMeat said:

that's an accolade - yes it rocked that's the first one i have ever been to so assumed they were all like that. 21st was great as well but different but hats off to Prince he played for a solid 3 hours - and we paid £25 - i think that's pretty good of an artist to do that

ritaw said:

I think it's UNHEARD of for an artist of Prince's stature - I felt incredibly priviledged to be in that situation - like being down the local pub and Prince getting up to play - AMAZING!