yes , i went to both sheffield shows on the tour. Very unique tour and show. I really enjoyed the 2nd show. He played more songs and was on for longer even though the arena was only 3 quarters full. People had cottened on he wasnt playing the hits so arenas tickets didnt quite sell as well. However it was still a banger of a show. My only slight complaint was he used too many prerecorded samples to boost the sound. Which wasnt really necessary. Just watch that show where he played without em. It was better! The one which is often classed as an aftershow. However it wasnt! It was an extra show.

It was such a unigue and strange time to be a Prince fan. There was alot of good like these shows and new music, but some bad, mainly coming from the mainstream media though.

Main show was hampered by him (and the band) doing too many gigs in Holland and thus not giving us the full experience.

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The Vorst Nationaal aftershow was initially terrible because he was hours late (he had to travel from Holland and it was snowing a lot -- I think the audience had to wait for 2+ hours), but once the concert started we knew we were in for something special. Most of the band were playing on hired instruments because theirs were already shipped to the next gig, but Prince had most of his gear.

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Thinking back I cannot imagine that I went to work, then went to the main gig (150km away), went back home (150km again), went to work the next day, then went to the aftershow (100km away), slept a couple of hours at a friend's in Brussels, and went to work again (100km away). That third day was hard to get through, and IIRC I took a nap instead of going to lunch.

I've been to four (or five?) of them; Ghent, Brussels, Hertogenbosch (both)... have to check my concert tickets i kept.

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The concert at Flanders Expo wasn't all that great, i was a bit dissapointed.

Then there was this aftershow in Vorst National.

Ozark Henry, a local beginning artist, was the opening act, if i remember well.

Sound was horrible. Venue wasn't full, parts were closed with curtains. Show wasn't an aftershow but some sort of extra improvised concert, with no specific stage set-up.

(That same year I believe...) At night, Prince and his band showed up, (but didn't perform) in a club called Who's Who Land, close to my place in the city center of Brussels.

We got the news that Prince was planning to go to this club (that doesn't excist anymore).

Prince and his band came to the stage to say hello for some brief moments. They didn't play.

There was no support act in Vorst. Only a DJ playing funk & soul etc.; IIRC that DJ was also the guy running a magazine about funk and soul and r&b etc.

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They deliberately only sold 4,000 tickets, but Vorst can hold 8,000. It was always a terrible sounding place, a concrete bunker with awful acoustics, though I have heard there have been concerts there that sounded good after long soundchecks. I think the Prince concert was one of the last ones there before a years-long renovation took place.

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IIRC the band had been there for a while, and that the only reason the concert started very late (around 22h CET IIRC) was because of Prince being late. I was main section at ground level, pretty close to the stage and it got very unpleasant because it was so crowded you couldn't sit down. Even getting some drinks was quite a task, plus you didn't want to drink too much because goign to the toilet and getting back to your spot was such a hassle.

Like I said, "if I remeber well". But he supported around that time a Prince show.

Can't remeber that DJ though. Whatever.

I was also in the main circle/section at ground level, a bit right of center stage, up front.

The expectations were high, no one wanted to leave to get a drink.

The bar to get a drink was so far away, and undercrowded. That I remember well.

All was terribely and hastily organised it seems.

I went to all the shows in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Ghent and Dublin. Didn't do the ones in Glasgow and Netherlands.

Favourite tour. The first night in Dublin and first aftershow in London would still rank in my top 5 favourite Prince gigs of all time.

I have been to both Den Bosch shows and the first Paradiso Aftershow. I was exhausted

I wish I would have seen the second Paradiso aftershow and the Vorst Aftershow as well.

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