I'm very excited but are they trying to pull it back a bit now. Was it meant to be more of a susprise more like the last hit n run in the UK. Him just turning up again.

Just announced 16 gigs in 11 cities in Europe with just Prince and a piano

dodger said:

rlittler81 said:

SOLO TOUR:

EUROPEAN TOUR CONFIRMED! Prince will be performing SOLO shows on his 'Prince spotlight: Piano and a Microphone' tour beginning in just 12 days' time!

16 cities in 11 countries: UK (London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow). Also Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Spain.

Tour begins 21st Nov in Vienna, then 22nd Nov in Brussels. Dec 13th is Barcelona. More details to come! Stay tuned to the Prince Museum!

More info (Spanish): http://cultura.elpais.com...08014.html

Fuck me - Liverpool.

Never thought I'd ever get to see him in my home city. Buzzing

Can't wait! Quite shocked he's never played Liverpool before!

I wonder if these will be large venues or small venues consdiering it will be him and a piano ?

egansmind said:

I wonder if these will be large venues or small venues consdiering it will be him and a piano ?

Small, probably theatres.

rlittler81 said:

egansmind said:

I wonder if these will be large venues or small venues consdiering it will be him and a piano ?

Small, probably theatres.

I'm really hoping its small venues/theatres.

And I guess thats most likely if its being billed as a 'Spotlight: Piano & Microphone' tour.

dodger said:

rlittler81 said:

Small, probably theatres.

I'm really hoping its small venues/theatres.

And I guess thats most likely if its being billed as a 'Spotlight: Piano & Microphone' tour.

In Belgium it will be the cirque royal and that's a small venue with a capacity of 2.000 people.

http://www.clubbelge.be/uploads/CirqueRoyal1.JPG

where are you guys seeing what cities and which venues he's playing?

Pentacle said:

IstenSzek said:

where are you guys seeing what cities and which venues he's playing?

I seen it on Twitter. The likes of Dr Funkenberry and Housequake

Pentacle said:

Finally something for the fans. Now let's see if he has enough to sell out those shows and on such short notice...

are you kidding me? just prince and his piano in small venues?

this is going to cause a feeding frenzy. i think people who want

to go will be lucky if they can brave the stampede and get some

tickets.

i'd love to go but i get really anxious in crowds, especially in a
crowd of prince fans so i might give it a miss. although
it seems like an amazing idea.

i'll have to think about it for a minute.

Full translation of the article published at El País:

https://www.facebook.com/...323591726/

[Edited 11/9/15 3:45am]

Aerogram said:

Pentacle said:

Finally something for the fans. Now let's see if he has enough to sell out those shows and on such short notice...

He had no problem during his last hitnrun in America with bigger venues and I don't remember him having any difficulty getting respectable, if not sold out attendance in the last 15 years. Of all the things to be nauseatingly negative about, this is the worst pick. You just like to rain on people's parade pompously.

Really? Remember the Gold tour, when people were 'warned' beforehand the wouldn't play any hits/Prince songs and then demanded their money back.

Something like this is going to be for fans only. But as I understand it, he has chosen intimate, smaller venues. So good.

Intriguing... if anybody from Paisley is reading this, I hope Prince is willing to be seen on stage while performing. In the last decade, he's kind of retreated into shadow on stage. Refusing to be seen. Especially while at the keys.

S3V3N said:

Intriguing... if anybody from Paisley is reading this, I hope Prince is willing to be seen on stage while performing. In the last decade, he's kind of retreated into shadow on stage. Refusing to be seen. Especially while at the keys.

Yeah.... He'll probably stay behind the curtain with a sampler keyboard.....

Marco81 said:

Two words: ANNA. STESIA.

Seriously if he doesn't play this it will be a crime

WOOOOHOOOO ALL I EVER WANT IS PRINCE ALONE ON THE STAGE WITH HIS GIFTS.

pasquerto said:

Pentacle said:

Aerogram said:

Pentacle said: He had no problem during his last hitnrun in America with bigger venues and I don't remember him having any difficulty getting respectable, if not sold out attendance in the last 15 years. Of all the things to be nauseatingly negative about, this is the worst pick. You just like to rain on people's parade pompously.

Really? Remember the Gold tour, when people were 'warned' beforehand the wouldn't play any hits/Prince songs and then demanded their money back.

Something like this is going to be for fans only. But as I understand it, he has chosen intimate, smaller venues. So good.

So good, until we can't get tickets.

IstenSzek said:

where are you guys seeing what cities and which venues he's playing?

Thus far, the available information comes from an article published at the Spanish newspaper El País, which sent a journalist to speak with Prince.

This is the original article:

http://cultura.elpais.com...14.html…

Here you have a translation of the full article (not a google translation):

https://www.facebook.com/...323591726/

This page in Housequake shows a summary of the information, and will be updated as new details unfold:

https://www.facebook.com/...100250815/

[Edited 11/9/15 10:56am]

[Edited 11/9/15 10:57am]

[Edited 11/9/15 11:01am]

Pentacle said:

trax said:

I agree. I don't care about it. If released Prince already said it will be released as it originally was with no extras. So why are people carrying on about it? Do people still listen to this album like its 1984? I only put that cd on about once a year if that. I just dont get it. I would rather have new music than an album already released

A) I don't care what Prince said, I'm waiting for WB laywers to get back to me

B) Sure, we all want new music. Sadly, Prince no longer makes music.

Regarding "B": Huh?

Prince with no twitchy dancers, nor proteges' de jour; just him, a microphone and a piano? Depending on the set list, I think I could totally go for that.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Prince with no twitchy dancers, nor proteges' de jour; just him, a microphone and a piano? Depending on the set list, I think I could totally go for that.

Me too! Folks in Europe are soooo lucky. I would love to see him do a whole performance on the piano. I wonder if this means he's going to release another piano album in the next year or two?

I still play this one quite frequently:

Me too. I particularly enjoy playing ONA in heavy rain or thunderstorms. Compliments the atmosphere of the album.

purplethunder3121 said:

I still play this one quite frequently: