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Thread started 01/29/10 10:31pm

RubyButterfly

Prince performing tonight at First Avenue? [UPDATE: HE WAS THERE, DIDN'T PERFORM]

I posted this on the CJ thread already but this is news in and of itself. smile

Twin Cities radio station 89.3 The Current was holding their 5th anniversary party tonight at First Avenue, and earlier tonight the rumor was being bandied about that Prince was going to perform. Upon checking The Current's Facebook and Twitter, it sounds like that rumor has merit.

L'etoile, a Twin Cities based magazine which writes about local fashion, art, music, and events, etc. posted on their Facebook a couple times about Prince possibly performing:

http://www.facebook.com/p...9749586564

Also, posted a couple hours ago on The Current's Twitter:

"People reporting Prince @firstavenue, this is a great birthday!"

http://twitter.com/thecurrent
[Edited 1/30/10 14:40pm]
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Reply #1 posted 01/29/10 10:34pm

DarlingNikki10
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Lucky Bastards!
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Reply #2 posted 01/29/10 10:34pm

RubyButterfly

This person is tweeting about Prince being there! biggrin

http://twitter.com/gimme_noise
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Reply #3 posted 01/29/10 10:36pm

RubyButterfly

CityPages blog about him maybe showing up at First Ave for this event:

http://blogs.citypages.co..._playi.php

Sounds like, as of 12:30 a.m. local time here in Mpls, STILL nobody at this event is sure if Prince is going to play or if he just came to hang out for awhile. lol
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Reply #4 posted 01/29/10 10:40pm

DarlingNikki10
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I wish I where there right now smelling his purple cologne! :l
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Reply #5 posted 01/29/10 11:47pm

ernestsewell

DarlingNikki1025 said:

I wish I where there right now smelling his purple cologne! :l

That's crack sweat.
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Reply #6 posted 01/30/10 1:20am

brechten

any more info ? ?
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Reply #7 posted 01/30/10 2:42pm

RubyButterfly

From today's Star-Tribune:

"Yes, Prince was at First Ave last night
Posted by Chris Riemenschneider

Last update: January 30, 2010 - 10:05 AM

As much as the black paint and the giant video screen, Prince rumors are a permanent part of the facade at First Avenue. So even the club's staff was skeptical when it first heard that our town's Biggest Bad Ass planned to attend the Current's fifth anniversary party last night.

Lo and behold, a week after he gave the Vikings a push with his hastily recorded "Purple and Gold" fight anthem (now as hastily a thing of the past), Prince cheered on another hard-charging home team. He didn't perform or anything. But just by showing up at the Current party for about a half-hour, he gave the hip public radio station the Twin Cities version of a papal blessing. It was believed to be his first time in the club since his late-night jam on 7/7/07. Local Prince sightings have been numerous this fall and winter, as he's reportedly been recording out at Paisley Park a lot.

His visit last night was curiously timed to Mason Jennings' solo acoustic set (and not to the Revolution-copping synth-pop duo Lookbook or the night's lone African American act, P.O.S., who came before and after Jennings, respectively). He watched from the DJ booth/owners box on the second floor, and people who saw him there said he indeed appeared to be digging Mason's act. The Current's program director Jim McGuinn was ushered into the box and got to chat with him. A Twin Cities newcomer from Philadelphia, McGuinn admitted afterward he was nervous and greatly honored, but he didn't fully understand how rare Prince's apperances at First Ave actually are these days.

Word is one of Prince's personal reps had made contact with the Current about a month earlier and passed along the singer's thumbs up, and that led to talk of last night's party. This all makes pretty good sense when you consider the station (89.3 FM) has given his music more airplay than any other hometown station has in probably about two decades, except for maybe small community station KMOJ.

So mark your calendar: January 2015, Prince headlines the Current's 10th anniversary party. Or maybe he'll at least hang out for a full hour that night.

(Look for a wrapup of the local acts who did perform at last night's party later today, when I wake up.)"

http://www.startribune.co...DieyckcUsI
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Reply #8 posted 01/30/10 6:01pm

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umm... WOW.

I was there. And was hanging out upstairs behind the DJ/owner booth for bascially all of Mason Jennings' set (cause I'm not much of a fan). And had no idea. lol
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Reply #9 posted 01/30/10 7:27pm

2elijah

Here's an updated one;to read more, visit:

http://www.startribune.co...DieyckcUsI


ll-star local cast blows out the Current's candle

Posted by Chris Riemenschneider
Last update: January 30, 2010 - 3:12 PM


Not that the Current (89.3 FM) doesn't deserve to be commended all on its own, but I thought last night's elbow-to-elbow fifth anniversary party at First Ave really came off as something grander -- namely, a celebration of the local music scene on the whole. It was what I imagine the Minnesota Music Awards were like back when they were relevant. Organizers did a great job lining up a good cross-section of innovative local acts, all of whom had a terrific 2009 (thanks in part to Current support), starting with newbies the Twilight Hours and Lookbook, ending with buzz kings Solid Gold, and peaking with Mason Jennings and P.O.S. and their passionate, road-tested acts in between.

Prince gracing us with his presence wasn't the only bit of support from our scene's previous generations (see the previous blog post). Bob Mould and Dan Wilson filmed videos praising the Current's five-year mark, which were shown between sets. Both of the Twin Town mayors hammed it up on stage to deliver a "Current Week" proclamation (R.T. Rybak pretty much gave the same speech he gave before the Hold Steady at the Basilica this summer). Suicide Commando and McNally Smith College of Music guru Chris Osgood, who was the station's first in-studio guest on its opening day, also returned to host the toast to the station, saying that back in the scene's '80s heyday, "We couldn't have imagined a day when we would have something like the Current."

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Reply #10 posted 01/30/10 7:43pm

RubyButterfly

CarrieMpls said:

umm... WOW.

I was there. And was hanging out upstairs behind the DJ/owner booth for bascially all of Mason Jennings' set (cause I'm not much of a fan). And had no idea. lol



He's sneaky!
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