A Night with PRINCE

2012 is interesting in music, there is artists who appear on reality TV and make it big for five minutes and then there are artists who have been around for decades and still kill it, and Prince well as he said last night is a real musician.

He also said I have so many hits I could be here all night :)

So on his Welcome 2 Australia tour, I caught Prince's fourth Sydney show (including the episode @ the Ivy).  It was a grand evening of lush music and disco grooves.

His cover of Alicia Key's "Why Don't You Call Me Anymore" was simply supreme, Alicia would have been proud.  He had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hands with "Purple Rain" to start.

"1999" seven tracks in got the party going!  "Cream" took me back to when I first saw him all those years ago when Diamonds and Pearls was massive.  "Kiss" near the end was great and the crowd was loving it.

The show was long and the hits were many.  My only complaint was the jamming and running around wasting time when hits like "Controversy" and others were missed.

Prince really is EPIC and look let's face it he ain't coming back anytime soon.  Could Prince have saved the Big Day Out ticket sales last year, YES, could Prince work at a music festival, NO! is Prince still on top of his game, HELL YES and Prince shows this Voice upstarts that if you can't play the piano, dance, play the guitar, write killer songs like "Nothing Compares 2 U" and have the best band in the world you may as well fuck off.

Prince rates a healthy big 4 stars for his Allphones Arena show.