Whats your memories of the store.. Was P the first and only artist to have his own store.. I remember the opeing and watching P on the balcony with Mayte .. the starfish and coffee shop and spending loads on items

i was there when i was a 15 year old boy from germany ... visiting my girlfriend for a week (she worked there - in London - not in the store - for a year) and one of the first stops after landing was the shop - inside was the whole band (without prince and mayte) . i played the interactiv CD with Michael and sonny and had some cool talks with morris and tomy...

GREAT- i nearly forget this -

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i was about 14 at the time, I used to go to camden almost every weekend to go to the store, i lived in Chiswick at the time so it was an hour journey on the tube. Loved it. Went just to see the jacket (memory serving me correctly?) and cloud guitar they had on display there...

BillieBalloon said:

I'd like to know what happened to the time capsule buried there.

what are you talkin about? i cant remember a time capsule. could you please share the story!

PS: just took a look - i still have a poster of the NEO MANIFESTO

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Luckily I was involved (a little) in the opening so I got to spend quite a lot of time there before it opened officially.

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On the Wednesday evening, before the opening on the Saturday, there were informal drinks and press coverage.

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This period was such an awesome experience.

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I really loved 'the vault' that was in the floor covered with glass.

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I have a load of unused footage which one day I should get transfered to digital, particularly the Saturday with Prince and Mayte.

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Happy days. Happy memories!

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NME01 said:

I worked there. I did work experience for two weeks, which turned into a weekend job - I was aged 14/15 at the time. I was there for around two years, I think. It was a long time ago. Great staff, and the fans were amazing. Such a great community. When 'the internet' got going there really wasn't much need for it. It wasn't exactly a big money-spinner (not that I kept a tally of the takings).

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I can imagine that was an awesome experience.

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darkroman said:

I remember walking in there in 1993 and having a coffee or something. They played a live version of "Endorphin Machine" and two fanatics (like me) were sitting at the next table and were singing along to the "press one for the money..." break. My friends (non-fanatics) were groaning.

there were also two sarcastic non fans in there looking at stuff, and they were going through the interactive and laughing when Prince's head pops up through that vase. They said some very typically dry but hilarious comment, then looked around and... "sorry."

I didn't buy anything. Regretted it, and then one year later had a friend go buy Gold Nigga and Exodus and bring them back to me. So I have that early eidtion with the song "Guess Who's Knockin"

trickster said:

ufoclub said:

NME01 said:

ufoclub said:

I remember walking in there in 1993 and having a coffee or something. They played a live version of "Endorphin Machine" and two fanatics (like me) were sitting at the next table and were singing along to the "press one for the money..." break. My friends (non-fanatics) were groaning.

there were also two sarcastic non fans in there looking at stuff, and they were going through the interactive and laughing when Prince's head pops up through that vase. They said some very typically dry but hilarious comment, then looked around and... "sorry."

I didn't buy anything. Regretted it, and then one year later had a friend go buy Gold Nigga and Exodus and bring them back to me. So I have that early eidtion with the song "Guess Who's Knockin"

Can't remember what video that was. We played The Dawn Experience and the American Music Awards performance A LOT. Also the Dolphin video, Sacrafice of Victor and The Undertaker. Never played anything pre o+> really. On the stereo we'd play a lot of Lettigo (remixes), 1-800-New Funk, Gold N***a, and even Mayte's album.

He was wearing a full length robe. Might have been black. It was a live performance (or so it seemed). The song was new, (only heard on bootleg). Was a video included on the Interactive CDR?

I had family who lived and worked in London at the time so when I visited we went there a few times. I've never bought so many candles before or since as I did there.

It was the video of Paris 1994 05 05 Nulle Part Ailleurs Canal+ "Endorphine Machine" So I must have been there in 1994.

TheDigitalGardener said:

I had family who lived and worked in London at the time so when I visited we went there a few times. I've never bought so many candles before or since as I did there.

Do you still have any of them?

BillieBalloon said:

trickster said:

what are you talkin about? i cant remember a time capsule. could you please share the story!

PS: just took a look - i still have a poster of the NEO MANIFESTO

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Well apparently at the time, Prince buried a time capsule in the shop. I don't have more details than that. I don't know what happened to it.

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The time capsule was a long chrome cylinder. Not massively big.

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It was in the floor on the basement retail level.

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It was covered with a glass panel so you could walk over it.

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I'll have to dig out my video footage of it!.

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Genesia said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

I had family who lived and worked in London at the time so when I visited we went there a few times. I've never bought so many candles before or since as I did there.

Do you still have any of them?

I have a small red one, it's in a glass and has the symbol on the front. I burned the rest, and lost a few from moving around so much.

Spent many a weekend at that store.

The highlight for me was when some of the NPG turned up for a coffee and I got to chat to Michael B and Sonny T.

We sat watching the Diamonds & Pearls video collection on the TV together for a while and I talked to Michael about the Undertaker VHS that had just come out. I asked him about Dolphin and why it the live version was replaced from the version with a studio mix. Never found out why but he did tell me that he did that New Power Trio mix of Dolphin.

darkroman said:

BillieBalloon said:

trickster said: Well apparently at the time, Prince buried a time capsule in the shop. I don't have more details than that. I don't know what happened to it.

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The time capsule was a long chrome cylinder. Not massively big.

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It was in the floor on the basement retail level.

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It was covered with a glass panel so you could walk over it.

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I'll have to dig out my video footage of it!.

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Im intrigued by this capsule now and its contents

mattj said:

darkroman said:

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The time capsule was a long chrome cylinder. Not massively big.

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It was in the floor on the basement retail level.

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It was covered with a glass panel so you could walk over it.

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I'll have to dig out my video footage of it!.

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Im intrigued by this capsule now and its contents

Just found this "According to Liz Jones' 'Slave To The Rhythm' biog, the entire stock from the Camden shop was bought by Adrian Horton, the owner of 'Madhouse Music', who sell a fantastic range of Prince memorabilia and music"

mattj said:

mattj said:

Im intrigued by this capsule now and its contents

Just found this "According to Liz Jones' 'Slave To The Rhythm' biog, the entire stock from the Camden shop was bought by Adrian Horton, the owner of 'Madhouse Music', who sell a fantastic range of Prince memorabilia and music"

Wow I din't realise Adrian and Madhouse music was still going. Brings back memories... He got a lot of my money back in the day

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SometimesIwonder said:

I went to the birthday party June 7th 1995 in the Canden store. Nothing much happened, we just hung around chatting to people, got to sign a big birthday card for P but we did get to hear Poom Poom for the very first time I remember! Maybe another song also, can anybody remember? There was a Prince lookalike at the party too & he was sooo like him!! Kept hoping that would walk in at any moment but he didn't. Think he was in Miami.

I went to the shop a couple of times. Wasn't impressed with it to be honest and was more excited by the boots I picked up from a little stall in Camden market.

I used to drive in from outside of London every weekend. Pre internet, so you never knew if anything new would pop up.

I had a little routine, straight down to the basement to check the CD section. Too often, there'd be nothing new, but across the road on one of the market stalls, there were always new bootlegs.

I remember watching 'The Undertaker' in the cafe many a time. I've still got my 10,000 magazine and Neon Manifesto.

Would love to know what happened to the time capsule. Even better, I'd love to think its still buried in there.

Remember that ledge with the candles burning? After a few months it was covered in different coloured wax, I remember thinking it looked really cool.

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