Prince at the North Sea Jazz Festival July 9th 2011
I went to see Prince in concert. He had the night shift at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Well it was technically a morning concert, because he started at 2 am and finished at 4 am. I was back home at 5 am and enjoyed a lovely sunrise.
He wasn't invited to participate at the festival, but asked if he could join and off course they said yes. He gave a concert for each of the three nights of the festival.
I went the second night, which turned out to be lucky for me, because the first night had some problems. The sound was very loud, so loud that a lot of people left because of it. Prince was deliberating with the sound guy during the concert. He apologized for the bad sound and lighting during the concert I attended. I found it still a tad too loud, but I brought my wax earplugs. My ears were thankful for that, because there was no ringing in my ears.
There were a lot of hardcore fans, who parked their bums for the entrance 12 hours before the concert actually started. I arrived 3 hours before the start and still stood 8 metres from the podium.
It was a great concert. I heard a couple complains, because he didn't do his greatest hits. I didn't mind, because as far as I'm concerned he can sing the phone book and it still will turn out great.
The only remarks I have:
-he did a lot of covers,
-his ( gorgeous) back up singer sang two whole songs,
-Seal was politely relieved of the singing duty by Prince with a "Thank you brother" after singing one verse. He was off key and didn't know the lyrics.
-I heard Prince played a lot of funk yesterday and sadly there was a lot of rock and too little FUNK today!
Best songs of the night were "The love we make" with a fantastic guitar solo and "Baby I'm a star" which brought down the house.
Setlist
-Joy In Repetition with Maceo Parker
-The Love We Make
-Mountains with Seal
-Come Together
-Alphabet St.
-Dear Mr. Man
-Stand!
-I Want You Back
-When We're Dancing Close and Slow
-*unidentified duet*
-The Look Of Love
-Guitar
-I Like It There
-Colonized Mind
-Bambi
-Encore 1: Johnny B. Goode (over Peach music)
-Peach
-Encore 2: The Beautiful Ones
-Encore 3: Dance (Disco Heat)
-Baby I'm A Star
Prince also made this remark to the audience members, who were recording the show with their camera's:
‘Put your camera down and participate!’, nice to know I'm not the only one who has this opinion.
Here is a piece of heaven: "The love we make" (not mine ;) )
He will be giving another concert in August in the Ahoy, hasn't sold out yet. Really, really , really want to go, but have to check with my financial advisor first. :)
He wasn't invited to participate at the festival, but asked if he could join and off course they said yes. He gave a concert for each of the three nights of the festival.
I went the second night, which turned out to be lucky for me, because the first night had some problems. The sound was very loud, so loud that a lot of people left because of it. Prince was deliberating with the sound guy during the concert. He apologized for the bad sound and lighting during the concert I attended. I found it still a tad too loud, but I brought my wax earplugs. My ears were thankful for that, because there was no ringing in my ears.
There were a lot of hardcore fans, who parked their bums for the entrance 12 hours before the concert actually started. I arrived 3 hours before the start and still stood 8 metres from the podium.
It was a great concert. I heard a couple complains, because he didn't do his greatest hits. I didn't mind, because as far as I'm concerned he can sing the phone book and it still will turn out great.
The only remarks I have:
-he did a lot of covers,
-his ( gorgeous) back up singer sang two whole songs,
-Seal was politely relieved of the singing duty by Prince with a "Thank you brother" after singing one verse. He was off key and didn't know the lyrics.
-I heard Prince played a lot of funk yesterday and sadly there was a lot of rock and too little FUNK today!
Best songs of the night were "The love we make" with a fantastic guitar solo and "Baby I'm a star" which brought down the house.
Setlist
-Joy In Repetition with Maceo Parker
-The Love We Make
-Mountains with Seal
-Come Together
-Alphabet St.
-Dear Mr. Man
-Stand!
-I Want You Back
-When We're Dancing Close and Slow
-*unidentified duet*
-The Look Of Love
-Guitar
-I Like It There
-Colonized Mind
-Bambi
-Encore 1: Johnny B. Goode (over Peach music)
-Peach
-Encore 2: The Beautiful Ones
-Encore 3: Dance (Disco Heat)
-Baby I'm A Star
Prince also made this remark to the audience members, who were recording the show with their camera's:
‘Put your camera down and participate!’, nice to know I'm not the only one who has this opinion.
Here is a piece of heaven: "The love we make" (not mine ;) )
Click to viewHe will be giving another concert in August in the Ahoy, hasn't sold out yet. Really, really , really want to go, but have to check with my financial advisor first. :)