Prince performs first UK festival Editor Katie Watkin's 4-7-2011 The 53-year-old star came back for three encores in what was his first open air gig in England since 1993, despite years of Glastonbury rumours. The Minneapolis musician does not have a strong association with agricultural life - unless you count the time he took a girl in a raspberry beret "down by Old Man Johnson's Farm". But other aspects of the gig felt more like his infamous "aftershow" parties, with extended instrumental jams featuring an athletic seven-piece band. The show opened with a five-minute funk workout - a lightly-borne necessity, as Prince and his band endeavoured to set their sound levels after previous acts, including Tinie Tempah and Larry Graham, suffered from distorted bass and indistinct mixing. It was a fascinating insight to how the fastidious musician organises his live band - calling on instruments to drop in and out, while issuing inst...