Piano & A Microphone Tour

Piano & A Microphone Tour
Tour by Prince
Associated album HITnRUN Phase One
HITnRUN Phase Two
Start date February 16, 2016 (2016-02-16)
End date April 14, 2016 (2016-04-14)
Legs 2
No. of shows 11 in Oceania
9 in North America
20 total
Prince concert chronology

The Piano & A Microphone Tour was the final concert tour by American recording artist Prince.[1][2] In a December 2015 interview in anticipation of the tour, he said that "I’m doing it to challenge myself, I won’t know what songs I’m going to do when I go on stage. I won’t have to, because I won’t have a band".[3]

It became Prince's final tour due to his sudden death on April 21, 2016, a week after the last performance of the tour.

Personnel

Setlist

Setlist of February 16, 2016, at the State Theatre, Melbourne, Australia[4]

  1. "Confluence" (instrumental intro)
  2. "Big City"
  3. "Ruff Enuff"
  4. "Little Red Corvette" / "Dirty Mind"
  5. "A Place in Heaven" (instrumental)
  6. "Money Don't Matter 2 Night"
  7. "Waiting in Vain" / "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
  8. "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"
  9. "The Ladder"
  10. "1000 X's & O's"
  11. "When She Comes"
  12. "Satisfied"
  13. "I Love U in Me"
  14. "Sometimes It Snows in April" (includes "Purple Rain" instrumental elements)
  15. "Automatic"
  16. "The Beautiful Ones"
Encore
  1. "Raspberry Beret"
  2. "Starfish and Coffee"
  3. "Paisley Park"
  4. "Adore"

Setlist of February 17, 2016, at the State Theatre, Melbourne, Australia[5]

  1. "Confluence" (instrumental intro)
  2. "Wow"
  3. "RocknRoll Loveaffair"
  4. "I Love U in Me"
  5. "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker"
  6. "Little Red Corvette" / "Dirty Mind" (includes "U Will B" and "Linus and Lucy")
  7. "Strange Relationship"
  8. "Unchain My Heart"
  9. "The Question of U"
  10. "A Case of U"
  11. "Waiting in Vain"
  12. "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"
  13. "Do Me, Baby"
  14. "Venus De Milo"
  15. "Black Sweat"
  16. "1000 X’s & O’s"
  17. "The Love We Make"
  18. "Raspberry Beret"
  19. "Kiss"
Encore
  1. "Nothing Compares 2 U"
  2. "Purple Music"
  3. "Purple Rain"

Setlist of March 4, 2016, at the Oracle Arena, Oakland, California, United States[6]

  1. "Confluence" (instrumental intro)
  2. "Wow"
  3. "Over the Rainbow" (Partial)
  4. "Somewhere Here On Earth"
  5. "Baltimore"
  6. "RocknRoll Loveaffair"
  7. "Breakdown"
  8. "Little Red Corvette" / "Dirty Mind"
  9. "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"
  10. "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" / "Four"
  11. "Controversy"
  12. "I Would Die 4 U"
  13. "Baby I'm A Star"
  14. "Purple Music"
  15. "Dear Mr. Man"
  16. "Cream"
  17. "Waiting in Vain" / "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
  18. "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"
  19. "Raspberry Beret"
  20. "Starfish and Coffee"
  21. "Paisley Park"
  22. "Sometimes It Snows in April"
  23. "Purple Rain"
  24. "Black Sweat"
  25. "Kiss"
Encore I
  1. "Diamonds and Pearls" (partial)
  2. "The Beautiful Ones"
  3. "A Place in Heaven" (instrumental) (partial)
  4. "Venus De Milo" (partial) / "Condition of the Heart" (instrumental) (partial) / "Under the Cherry Moon" (instrumental) (partial)
  5. "Nothing Compares 2 U"
  6. "When Doves Cry" (partial loop recording)
Encore II
  1. "Free Urself"
  2. "Thieves in the Temple" (includes "It")
  3. "I Wanna Be Your Lover"
  4. "Do Me, Baby"
  5. "Adore"
Notes

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue
Oceania
February 16, 2016
2 shows		 Melbourne Australia Arts Centre Melbourne - State Theatre
February 17, 2016
2 shows
February 20, 2016
2 shows		 Sydney Sydney Opera House
February 21, 2016
2 shows		 State Theatre
February 24, 2016
2 shows		 Auckland New Zealand Aotea Centre - ASB Theatre
February 25, 2016 Perth Australia Perth Arena
North America
February 28, 2016
2 shows		 Oakland United States Paramount Theatre
March 4, 2016 Oracle Arena
March 21, 2016
2 shows		 Montreal Canada Théâtre Maisonneuve - Place des Arts
March 25, 2016
2 shows		 Toronto Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
April 14, 2016
2 shows		 Atlanta United States Fox Theatre
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
April 7, 2016 Atlanta, Georgia Fox Theatre Rescheduled to April 14, 2016[8]

Box office score data

Venue City Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
Perth Arena Perth 12,057 / 13,206 (91%) $1,554,860
Paramount Theatre Oakland 5,668 / 5,792 (98%) $1,244,813
Oracle Arena Oakland 16,940 / 17,324 (98%) $2,707,586
Fox Theatre Atlanta 9,022 / 9,162 (98%) $1,811,410

References

  1. ↑ "Prince 'Piano & a Microphone' tour 2016 - Dainty Group". Dainty Group. Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  2. ↑ "Prince To Kick Off North American Solo Piano Tour In Oakland Sunday". Retrieved 2016-05-02.
  3. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (2015-11-12). "Prince: 'Transcendence. That's what you want. When that happens – Oh, boy'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  4. ↑ Todd, Nathan (February 18, 2016). "Prince pays tribute to Vanity at his concert in Melbourne". AXS. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Prince Vault – Melbourne, Australia Set list
  6. ↑ Prince Vault – Oakland, CA Set list
  7. ↑ Kreps, Daniel (February 17, 2016). "Prince pays tribute to Vanity at Australia concert". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ Stinchcomb, La-Keya (March 29, 2016). "Prince concert rescheduled for April 14". CBS46. WGCL-TV Atlanta. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
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