I've been relistening to the Xenophobia performances this week and remembered reading that at last year's celebration around 2 hours of compiled footage was screened.

If the estate really wanted to earn some goodwill and please fans, surely releasing a Xenophobia boxset is a no-brainer! 6 nights of incredible (mostly) unique intimate performances all pro-shot. Slap Kevin Smith's documentary footage on the end and you've got an unreviled video document of Prince as an artist.

Surely this week has got to be one of the highlights of Prince's career. Beyond the questionable proselytising, this is Prince at his most generous and down to earth. We all know his reputation for having a contestable relationship with his fanbase at times, but events like this really put that into question. And it helps of course that the performances are mostly all A+.

I can only assume a lot of this footage is being held in reserve for the 'future' carrot-on-a-stick documentary... but c'mon!

This is what Neversin had to say about it last June:

It was the JW propaganda/recruitment edit Prince had done out of the footage Kevin Smith shot... The most interesting things aren't in there.... - NS

was that shown to people before now?

Yes, when he went door to door with Larry he had this tape with him to show...
He aired it a couple of times at Paisley Park, definitely not for a commercial release... - NS