@mrm Hi! Congrats to you for being a bigger Prince fan than me etc, but tbh I stand by a lot of what I said. The gig at Hop Farm was incomparable to the O2 shows. Believe it or not, Prince was not playing to his crowd on Sunday night and I felt, as a member of the audience, that he could have done a much better gig had he not filled half the gig with un-necessary filler - this happened in EVERY song.

By sweary, i merely suggested that his religious beliefs are compromising his song choices. No Gett Off? no Insatiable? No Head? No Hot Thing? No I wanna Be your Lover?

Now I wasn't sat there with a stopwatch so you may well be correct in your timings, for which I apologise - but to me 3 minutes spent having to shout the word "Funky" honestly felt like 20.

Having only seen 6 shows I'm not aware that every show is a party - both the O2 and the old Maine Road gigs were far from parties - they were amazing gigs which played to their strengths and didn't spend too long indulging themselves in needless twaddle.

I am wearing a cap saying Mr. Cunt today - can I suggest you wear a T Shirt saying "I NEED TO GET OVER MY SELF-RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION REGARDING THINGS I DON'T AGREE WITH".

Love, Mr. HM

@mrm How come all your responses are assumptions mixed with thinly veiled insults? "You obviously can't read". How is that meant to work? If I couldn't read I wouldn't be able to read that you'd written that and I'd be none the wiser. If I can read then, well, it's not going to bother me is it? It just doesn't work on any level. It's just silly. I can obviously read. I may have misunderstood what you wrote. But that might be your fault for not being clearer. It might be no one's fault and just one of the common problems we all face with communication. Why so aggressive?

"I'm not happy that he wrote crap"

Why? Why are you not happy? What does it change? Will Prince sell less gig tickets? Will he lose money? Will you be in some way hurt? No. So why do you care? It doesn't matter, does it? Let it go.

"I`m going to take him to task."

This is laudable, and you should. But you completely undermine your points when you come at it like a mental fanboy, hurling assumptions and insults. It just makes you seem like a loony. You could have very calmly and politely said:
"Hi, I was at the same gig and I think you got a few details wrong." Then list those details. Then say, "I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it as much as the gigs you've seen before. I did enjoy it and here's why..."
Then we'd think, hey what a cool guy. He's shared his opinion and his knowledge. Brilliant.
Instead we think, uh oh. Sound the fanboy lunatic alarm. And you brought that all on yourself.

"I am also of an age where the trendy twats in London who reckon they know about music and don`t irritate me."

Well I'm not sure who that refers to. Mr HM is from Derby, I'm from Dorset, we're not remotely trendy and we're both quite old. You need to give it up with the assumptions and the insults. They're just not working for you.

@Tim Chipping
You obviously can`t read !I`m quite happy for him not to have enjoyed the show.
I`m not happy that he wrote crap;
- the opening song wasn`t 20 minutes
- "nothing from his sweary phase" they all were
- 20 minute song with LG was actually 3 songs
- nothing from Diamonds and Pearls - Cream wasn`t on that album then
- too many jams and chants - surely audience participation is the name of the game at a festival - Mr.HM clearly wanted a passive crowd possibly stroking their chins or navel gazing.

Being a fan is not defined by the number of concerts you attend but to boast what a massive fan you are after seeing 6 as Mr.HM does is laughable , Prince has done over 100 shows in the UK and that excludes the aftershows.
If he has seen 6 concerts he would know that they are always a party , there are always covers and different arrangements of familiar songs.
If I want to read badly researched and written reviews I can read a tabloid, but when I read one written by someone who runs a website that amongst other things takes the piss out of the kind of crap that tabloids print then I`m going to take him to task.
As for me happy to be a freak - I know what I like and If I express an opinion it is factual and not made up.
I am also of an age where the trendy twats in London who reckon they know about music and don`t irritate me.
I`m sure I`ll get over it though

I was at the Hop Farm yesterday and yes we were kept waiting by his Royal Purpleness( so did all the other acts , not just as long), soundcheck was necessary as Larry Graham was hardly audible when he performed. I am a 46 year old mother and i have been following PRINCE since i heard his FOR YOU album when i was 11 or 12 years old, and i will be a fan forever. Listen , i am not getting into a slanging match here but PRINCE IS THE KING.!! NOTHING OR NO ONE CAN EVER COMPARE TO HIM. I saw him in Wembley over 20 years ago, i saw him at the O2 a few years back and he delivers time and time again. He is simply the best. Don't forget this is an artiste who really does not favour commercial success over his creativity and all i can say is i will continue to support and enjoy his music. He is truly an entertainer, playing REAL MUSIC for real fans. Long may his purple reign continue.

@mrm You might be right, he might not have been there. Or, and here's a revolutionary thought, a review is an entirely subjective account. And no two people see the the same show, feel the same way about it or even remember the details the same way. And since it's probably the latter that's the case here, wetting your pants about the nature of subjectivity is somewhat futile, don't you think? What can be done about it? Can we reverse time and you can stand next to him and tell him everything he should be noticing and thinking? Or could you maybe just carry on enjoying Prince your way and leave other people to enjoy him (or not) their way? Because your current stance (Yes, no one is a Prince fan unless they've gone to all 36 O2 shows - that's definitely how it works) makes you sound like a bit of a freak. And not in the funky sense of the word, either.

You obviously weren`t there ! Did you write your review by following twitter feeds ?

You reckon you know and love Prince having seen 6 concerts (he did 36 shows at the O2 in 2007) - you really are having a laugh!
The opening track which he used as a soundcheck lasted five or 6 minutes if you had heard the sound from the earlier acts you would have realised that it was entirely necessary , the sound following this was superb.
The 20 minute song with Larry Graham was actually 3 songs - Everyday People , Come Together (by a band called the Beatles) and I Wanna Take You Higher , well judged and well received - something for the older people in the crowd.

You really don`t know very much about music do you ?
His studio albums have always been at the forefront of technology , but the challenge surely is to recreate this in a live setting without the drum machines and samples which does mean a slightly different arrangement to the album version and this is what makes a Prince concert special.

I didn`t go to Glastonbury but I did watch U2 and Coldplay who are apparently the biggest live draws in the world - I might as well have played their CD`s , this must be the type of performance you like.

If you were there last night you would know that there wasn`t anything in his setlist that people wouldn`t know even the cover of Sylvester`s Disco Heat or Bob Dylan`s Make You Feel My Love. It was perfectly pitched for the whole crowd , not just his die-hards and as usual he had the whole audience in the palm of his hand. Outside of the covers everything he played was a hit , including Cream off the Diamonds and Pearls album ! Your so-called sweary era surely ran from 1978 to the mid-nineties , he played nothing later than Cream which was 1991 apart from the opening number which is a new unreleased song called "We Live To Get Funky"

I don`t object to you not enjoying it , that is your opinion what I do object to is making things up which just show how shallow your knowledge of music is.
I reckon you got a freebie ticket from the promoter and couldn`t be arsed to go (the lure of something like Heartbeat on TV was probably too great for you)so you looked at Twitter and other websites and wrote a review based around this.

You should change your name from Mr.HM to Nathan Barley or simply Mr.Cunt !