Virtual festivals rumour! Prince!

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Daft Punk aren't touring or recording at the mo (not to sure on the last one guys so shoot me down if I'm misinformed).

I applaud your optimism, but i would be very surprised to see any of these three there.

[Zacko]

Daft Punk are scoring the new Tron film aren't they? Not sure if that means anything at all but it's something.

[ralph250]

Prince was awesome when I saw him a couple years back....but if we can't have Prince, can we at least have have his Sax Player....Mr MACEO PARKER!!! preferably with Fred aswell.

[Bort]

Haha, I hate to do it, but Daft Punk have some dates down for next summer. Would love to see them but really doubt it as you say.

[Mardy]

Much as I love love love Prince and think he'd put on an amazing show, really showing Springsteens et al what a proper f**king show is all about, I've accepted it's never going to happen. Damn shame but there you go.

[Peache Calhoon]

Prince was awesome when I saw him a couple years back....but if we can't have Prince, can we at least have have his Sax Player....Mr MACEO PARKER!!! preferably with Fred aswell.

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[Bluearsedfly]

Prince would have been amazing

[josephg]

efestivals was clearly wrong about pulp. i thought SR required a strong basis, that wasn't just two tabloids saying Jarvis had said 'Glastonbury was his spiritual home'. I think that is one that was wrong, regardless of the news story concerning the rumuor being 'pulped'

[sifi]

efestivals was clearly wrong about pulp. i thought SR required a strong basis, that wasn't just two tabloids saying Jarvis had said 'Glastonbury was his spiritual home'. I think that is one that was wrong, regardless of the news story concerning the rumuor being 'pulped'

Edited October 28, 2009 by sifimaster

[Vieuphoria]

i hate Prince. I really hate Prince. There being no Prince at Glasto makes me happy

[eFestivals]

efestivals was clearly wrong about pulp. i thought SR required a strong basis, that wasn't just two tabloids saying Jarvis had said 'Glastonbury was his spiritual home'. I think that is one that was wrong, regardless of the news story concerning the rumuor being 'pulped'

Yep, it was wrong - but for less than 24 hours.

If we had any certainly about it we'd have made it more than a 'strong rumour'. But at the time we made it a strong rumour there was a very strong rumour going around that it was happening - so it was a strong rumour.

I will point out that unlike countless other sites (and it's still happening now), we didn't go over-board and write a news story about it; we kept our powder dry and checked it out, and were the first anywhere to state there was less to it than was going around.

Rumours, being what they are, can never be faultless. But when it comes to rumours - particularly for Glastonbury - this site is very normally streets ahead of every other possible source of rumours.

[sifi]

i hate Prince. I really hate Prince. There being no Prince at Glasto makes me happy

[ralph250]

I think he's written some brilliant songs.

When Doves Cry for example is a modern classic. I think so anyhow.

[sifi]

nothing compares 2 u,

[ralph250]

I didn't like his version, to be honest. I prefer the Sinead O'Connor one. Which is quite rare for me, I normally go for the original 9 times out of 10.

[sifi]

I prefer sinead's aswell, but just saying some of the great songs he's written. Love the video for sinead's aswell

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Where and when?

[ralph250]

World tour in the summer. London and Manchester in September.

[Bort]

World tour in the summer. London and Manchester in September.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk/+events

I'm assuming thats official by the way, but I doubt they'd just make them up. Someone on there says confirmed within a month.

[eFestivals]

http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk/+events

I'm assuming thats official by the way, but I doubt they'd just make them up. Someone on there says confirmed within a month.

Ermmmmmm ..... I've never yet seen anything on Last.fm relating to festivals which has panned out as true. It's as reliable as Wikipedia - that is, not reliable at all.

[sifi]

The original was by The Family, a side project of Prince's, but not him....

Did Prince ever record it?

[sifi]

I know he's performed it live often enough, but that was after Sinead had the hit, which was after The Family's original

[4AssedMonkey]

If you check into Prince's writing credits you'll probably be pleasantly surprised how much good stuff he's either written or co-written for others. Manic Monday by the Bangles is one of his and I think he co-wrote some Eurythmics stuff too. The guy is a genius and incredibly prolific. In fact I think the whole "artist with no name/slave" thing came about as he fell out with his record company over him writing about 3 albums worth or material in less than a year and them refusing to release it all so as not to potentially impact the sales of each album.

I'd love to see him live but I don't think he'll be at Glastonbury. Hope I'm wrong about that though.

[mazola]

It would be fantabulous if he played.

Prince was the first act that that i really got into, in my teens in the eighties.

Lost interest in him in the nineties, everything from diamonds & pearls onwards seems a bit too clean and overproduced.

Went to see him at 02 a couple of years ago for old times sake, and it was a fantastic night, far better than i'd hoped.

If by some chance he does play, it really could be something special.