BBC Article on the upcoming Montreux Concert

Some 7,000 tickets for two Prince concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival have been snapped up eight minutes after going on sale, say organisers.

Demand was high for the gigs on 18 July, despite tickets for standing room only being priced at 195 Swiss Francs (£111).

The musician's appearance at the gala was only confirmed last week.

He performed at Montreux, Switzerland in 2007, when 4,500 concert tickets were sold out within 10 minutes.

Ticket limit

Other performers due to play a series of concerts at the festival include the Black Eyed Peas, Grace Jones and Marianne Faithfull.

Wyclef Jean, who is standing in for former Fugees bandmate Lauryn Hill after she cancelled her European tour, will also appear.

The festival got under way at the end of last week, and will also feature Herbie Hancock making his 30th Montreux appearance.

Tickets for a seat at one of Prince's consecutive two concerts cost 480 Swiss Francs (£273), while a two ticket limit per person was imposed.

Link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...135952.stm

mattj said:

you should tell catpark about this.....

jone70 said:

You know that that is bullshit, Prince still does aftershows until 6 in the morning!

mattj said:

YEAH...
No doubt Prince is still the 1 & only !!!!!

saafiir said:

Care to share some context?
He hasn't played a show over here since 2007.
It's only a small room.
Not a 20.000 people ice-skate rink which he'll play a few times over the weekend.
Not part of a tour where he'll come closer to the people anyway.
So it's most of Europe's active, hardcore fans in that small room... (who can still afford this during a U$A-rooted cri$i$)

udo said:

we should compare it to U2 for example. how long did it take them to sell out their shows?

How often does U2 do Montreux?
Or a comparable sized room for just the whole of Europe?

udo said:

I interpreted prince is the 1 and only in the contxt of tix sales.
I don't think that 7.000 tix for Europe (or even Switserland alone) is impressive at all.

remko said:

Indeed.

potser said:

I doubt there'll be an aftershow as the 2nd concert starts at midnight (if he's on time)-ish, so that can go on til 2.30-3... by the time gear and people have moved, it won't start til 5 or 6... however this would be very good as I have until half 1 sunday afternoon until my flight back to London without a hotel room to wait...

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catpark said:

With the rumours regarding it being filmed, the set-up has to be discussed... and I'm sure he'll do a soundcheck or 2 so there aren't the LA sound problems revisited...

abierman said:

I know no such thing. I'd think popping painkillers to get through one night is a lot different than traveling from city to city for months, doing shows until 6am in each of those places. But believe what you want.

jone70 said:

Nonsense.
Whether he is at home or doing an aftershow, his day/night rhythm won't be like mine. So don't make him look like Michael with the painkiller nonsense since he'd have to use them at home as well.
Travelling in beyond average vehicles is not so bad compared to work that many of us have to do to get by.
Please provide some better context...

udo said:

I'm unable to provide context for you on a public website.

harveya said:[quote]
I don't get where those rumors came from. I haven't heard anything like that.

Relax, Montreux is known for good sound. At least, i didn't hear many bad concerts soundwise in the Stravinski.

r'nt I the bright one of the bunch, I was thinking it was in Canada and considering a drive to Montreal but I guess u can't drive to Montreux from here LOL

jone70 said:

you obviously haven't been to the Vegas shows or any 'regular' tour (plus aftershow).....

Painkillers????? Puhlease.....stop speculating anything you can not prove, cut the BS about not being able to elaborate on a 'public website'.....

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abierman said:

No, I only went to the Hotel Gansevoort Show in NYC last fall, the Nokia show in 2006, the Musicology tour, etc.



Clearly your mind is made up so believe what you want, I couldn't care less.

jone70 said:

You're suffering from No Damn Announcements?

Prince is smart, announce one show every now and then and of course they are gonna sell out.

Make the fans flock.

damn said:

And a few messages ago he was lazy?
Play few shows, only leave the park for big $$$, etc?
A sure sign of inflation...?

Gohi said:

There was an interview with Claude Nobs, where he stated that Prince wanted 35mm film which would cost far too much, so they agreed on HD... Can't remember where it was, but it was...

harveya said:

i read that too in any newspaper.

The tickets ordered on Saturday morning have arrived in Switzerland.

jazzon said:

????
Why not choose the print-at-home option?
They can cancel the tickets anyway...

What would produce less carbon-taxed items? (yes, it's a hoax)

rouge said:

http://prince.org/msg/12/312799

Ooops!

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