Next Saturday His Royal Badness himself, Prince, will be playing a concert in Louisville, Kentucky, but fascinatingly, the venue has not yet been disclosed. Tickets go on sale Monday, March 9, at 10 a.m. local time through Live Nation.
Prince made it known that a series of similarly scheduled dates on short notice are in the works. Dates and times will be announced and then it’s up to you to bust out the credit card and pounce. Suitably, he’s calling it the “Hit and Run” tour.
Prince spent a big chunk of 2014 playing similarly spontaneous shows across the UK and Europe to promote his new solo album Art Official Age and his debut with 3rdEyeGirl, Plectrumelectrum.
Prince has a knack for doing this his own way, but he’s incredibly savvy and his eccentric interventions have a way of enhancing either his image or his bank account—usually both. With this announcement he has guaranteed a huge dollop of adoring press coverage, and you know the tickets, when they’re announced, ain’t going to be cheap.
Here’s Prince’s enjoyable appearance on Muppets Tonight from 1997 (watch it before Prince’s lawyers yank it down…..):