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Prince at The Electric Ballroom, Camden, February 5, 11pm (second of two shows)
Like a brilliant but traumatic event, it didn't seem to register until later that I had actually seen Prince right there in front of me! For an artist of Prince's calibre you'd usually be expected to fork out upwards of £50 about 6 months in advance to see him on the other side of a stadium, but this gig was the complete opposite.
Maybe it was his tendency to play newer, more unfamiliar material that kept it from feeling real – if I'd been stolen of my eyesight it could've been any brilliant but unfamiliar band playing when Prince wasn't on the microphone. Something tells me this encapsulates Prince's ambitions of late. I hate the expression "he's all about the music" but I think that, for once, Prince literally just wants to play music. He may not look or sound a day past 30, but the 55-year-old dandy knows this probably can't go on forever, so something about this new direction and tie-in with backing band 3RDEYEGIRL tells me that maybe this is him giving himself a final lease of musical life.
by Ed Francis
Prince at the Electric Ballroom in Camden on February 5 (Pic: Ed Francis)
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