BUT WILL HE ACTUALLY BE HERE !! this is the question , do i jump in teh car and head 4 dublin , Must say its nice of him to visit us me on my Birthday ! tehe

mfcuker said:

That's aff...question ??? Have a gig in Ireland then !! Looking for my father ran off before I was born Bit like Prince
:beret:never turns up

roseberet said:

MUST ADD THIS ONE AT LEAST HE HAS GOT HIMSELF NOTICED AGAIN GET ALL THAT FEE MONEY BACK ANYWAY §§§§ BUT NOT FRO0M MY TINY POCKET INFO HE WALKED OUT OF A CONCERT AT AUTEUIL IN PARIS I Forgave that saw him later on at ZENITH He actually stayed to the end WOW The stones did to under an enormous thuderstorm so.....Live and let die

unique said:

This was not the news media, it was an interview with Princes defence lawyers. That is what they said. Which is strange is it not? I didn't think they would be allowed to comment like that in the middle of a court case?

[Edited 2/24/10 6:49am]

Tremolina said:

so basically you have no idea how a court works, and don't care about hearing sides, and just want to skip to the judgement without the details as to how to arise at that point?

that's why you aren't working in a court

Hi unique been a long time since...Why dont we all go over to the Irish court and do a GIG lol !! May even Prince might turn up WOW

unique said:

Altho' your own lack of respect and informing yourself deserve it, I don't think I will return your insult, since that only proves the weakness of your argument.

I am definitely interested in hearing all sides, but the fact of the matter - that you totally ignore here - is that Prince has had the chance to speak on this for two years already, yet he hasn't said a word. Not one single word.

And not when asked by the court either. He didn't even have the decency to tell the court his reasons why he would not appear to give the statement he was told to make.

It's obvious that you look over those facts in some sort of drive to defend Prince on this one and that you don't understand that such behaviour will not be tolerated by a court. The fact is, the court reacted very negatively to Prince's inaction and hocus pocus with lawyers.

Also, FYI, I have a very good idea of how a court works. As a lawyer I deal with them on a daily basis. Hence why I can see that Prince is only hurting himself by not saying anything, not instructing his lawyers and simply insulting the court by not appearing and not citing his reasons.

Lastly, it is obvious you don't read my posts, because I have not judged Prince already and have informed myself as well as I could before expressing myself. In my posts I have expressly left open several possibilities, including yours that Morris messed it up and also a possible private explanation. I have repeatedly said I want to know what his side of the story is and only that he makes himself look guilty by the way he behaves.

So I take issue with the fact that you ignore all that and just give me an ill thought out reaction.

This especially when you yourself purely go on a total assumption - that you also apparantly made up all by yourself since Prince hasn't said a word on is - that he never even confirmed he would play and that the promoter just ran with him. If that were really true, you don't think his lawyers would have brought that up already by now so there would be no more case? No, you don't, apparantly because you are the one who doesn't know how it works in court.

unique said:

Altho' your own lack of respect and informing yourself deserve it, I don't think I will return your insult, since that only proves the weakness of your argument.

I am definitely interested in hearing all sides, but the fact of the matter - that you totally ignore here - is that Prince has had the chance to speak on this for two years already, yet he hasn't said a word. Not one single word.

And not when asked by the court either. He didn't even have the decency to tell the court his reasons why he would not appear to give the statement he was told to make.

It's obvious that you look over those facts in some sort of drive to defend Prince on this one and that you don't understand that such behaviour will not be tolerated by a court. The fact is, the court reacted very negatively to Prince's inaction and hocus pocus with lawyers.

Also, FYI, I have a very good idea of how a court works. As a lawyer I deal with them on a daily basis. Hence why I can see that Prince is only hurting himself by not saying anything, not instructing his lawyers and simply insulting the court by not appearing and not citing his reasons.

Lastly, it is obvious you don't read my posts, because I have not judged Prince already and have informed myself as well as I could before expressing myself. In my posts I have expressly left open several possibilities, including yours that Morris messed it up and also a possible private explanation. I have repeatedly said I want to know what his side of the story is and only that he makes himself look guilty by the way he behaves.
So I take issue with the fact that you ignore all that and just give me an ill thought out reaction.

This especially when you yourself purely go on a total assumption - that you also apparantly made up all by yourself since Prince hasn't said a word on is - that he never even confirmed he would play and that the promoter just ran with him. If that were really true, you don't think his lawyers would have brought that up already by now so there would be no more case? No, you don't, apparantly because you are the one who doesn't know how it works in court.

Rorywan said:

did princes defence lawyers tell you that directly, were you in the court yourself, or did you hear it from the media?

roseberet said:

two of prince's biggest loser fans are from ireland, so i tend to steer clear

next weekend in paris though is where the party be, 8 hours of prince music and videos
[Edited 2/24/10 7:54am]

Here's the latest...

Court hears of Prince concert booking
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 12:50
The Commercial Court has been hearing details of dinner dates with the pop superstar Prince in a legal action over a cancelled concert.

An executive with the William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME), which acted for the singer, has described how the popstar never mentioned cancelling the Croke Park concert during two dinner dates he had with him in 2008.

The executive was giving evidence in the second day of an action by promoters MCD for €1.7m in compensation against Prince and his agents.

Prince, whose full name is Prince Rogers Nelson, claims the agents had no authority to confirm the concert.

Keith Sarkisian was asked by Mr Justice Peter Kelly about the atmosphere at one of the dinners, which took place a short time after tickets went on sale for the Croke Park concert.

Mr Sarkisian said there was no indication from the singer that there was any problem with the plans.

At the second dinner in the singer's home he said the opportunity to discuss the concerts did not arise, as the singer left the room after dinner and his security guard returned to thank him and tell him the dinner was over.

Asked by his counsel if he asked him to return to discuss matters, Mr Sarkisian said: 'You don't tell Prince to come back'.

Mr Sarkisian outlined a number of emails to Prince's personal assistant Ruth Arzate during which he says the Dublin concert was clearly confirmed.

As they started to have difficulty getting a final say on other European dates he was advised by Ms Arzate to send a note to Prince.

He said he had to be careful how to write the note and normally took direction from Ms Arzate who would 'interpret' for them.

He said he was told not to try to force an answer from the artist as it would probably make him do the opposite.

However he said at no stage in the process was it mentioned that Dublin would be cancelled and he was sending regular updates on tickets sales to Prince's personal assistant.

The first time he was definitively told that Prince would not be going to Dublin was at a meeting on 3 June.

He said at this meeting Prince was agitated when presented with his options on canceling the concert and said 'you guys got me into this'.

He was also willing to speak to Denis Desmond and said: 'tell him he'll have to chill'.


During cross-examination by counsel for MCD, Mr Sarkisian said at all times they acted as agents for Prince.

Asked if he was still the singer's agent he said: 'technically yes'.

It was put to him that Prince's name was still on WME's website and he replied: 'well I think Elvis is still on our website'.

However he said at all times WME acted on Prince's behalf and with his consent and everyone understood this both before and after tickets for the Dublin gig went on sale.

maybe he was too scared to come to Ireland, what with all the bombs and all....

maybe he was too scared to come to Ireland, what with all the bombs and all....

colm said:

MCD promoted the show on the understanding that prince would attend, but the case revolves around prince saying he didn't confirm he would attend, yet the promoter went on with advertising and selling tickets to the show

the issue of "authorised" relates to one party selling tickets that another didn't authorise, according to the other party

i think prince's point is that he didn't confirm the show, yet the promoter went ahead and took it so far without proper confirmation from the artist, in the hope he would give in and play the show so as not to upset his fans. but i think we all know that's not the way you try and deal with prince

maybe he was too scared to come to Ireland, what with all the bombs and all....

Bombs? Everyone in Ireland is too drunk to set a bomb off.

unique said:

There are a lot of Irish fans on here who would find that very offensive.
Unique, what has happened?, I've read your posts on here for quite a long time, ur replies are normally intelligent insightful (especially legal aspects) why are you being so bitchy?
Peace.
[Edited 2/24/10 8:47am]

i didn't make any statements based on assumptions. being a lawyer you should surely be able to understand what people are saying, and not make statements based on assumptions, which is what you did. i'm not defending prince at all, only giving an alternate view to points raised here, so people don't all join hands in agreement over something they don't know the facts about

unique said:

Prince hasn't said anything yet, so you are just making that up. His lawyers have not stated that he didn't "confirm" either. They only claimed that he was misrepresented, which appeared to be nonsense because they have long term agreement to represent him in these matters. You shouldn't make stuff up and ignore what's really going on.

Also, "thats not the way you try and deal with prince"? In court it doesn't matter what cooky way Prince wants you to do business with you and whatever superstar nonsense he feels he is entitled to as opposed to ordinairy people. If he entered into an agreement, he must live up to it.

So, the only real questions are, did he or did he not and if so why did he cancel. Since he isn't saying anything, yet the other side is providing evidence that he did agree, things right now do not look good for him. He has not much more time to explain his side of the story properly.

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[Edited 2/24/10 9:56am]

unique said:

Yes you did, because you said Prince's argument is that he never comfirmed in the first place. You can't know that when he hasn't said anything yet. So that's a 100% assumption on your side.

And in my view you are most definetely defending prince and in a bitchy way that doesn't serve your goal at all, which by all means is fine with me, but do it with facts then.

SINCE PRINCE HASN'T PROVIDED ANY EVIDENCE SO FAR, the facts right now appear to be that he did agree to play and that he cancelled at the very last moment, so far not known why, again because Prince ignores the court.

Like I said, time for him to come clean. If he still wants to get away with this.

i think he may have had concussion that week from knocking his head between bria's boobs

citrus said:

Ohh geez