#PrinceOnThisDay In the early hours of 18 October 2003, after headlining the opening night of Hong Kong Harbour Fest, Prince and his band played a short, intimate aftershow at The Edge, a small live-music club on the ground floor of The Centrium at 60 Wyndham Street in Central. The club, which had opened the previous year, was selected after Prince’s team scouted local venues; they specifically wanted a proper stage, strong sound and lighting, and a discreet back-door exit. Edge manager Luis Porras later said the space was built for live music and met those requirements. Prince himself announced the show from the Harbour Fest stage, telling the outdoor crowd that the official after-party was at The Edge. This left socialites waiting at the rumoured alternative (Dragon-i) while roughly 200 fans—many NPG Music Club members with free wristband entry, others paying about HK$160—made it inside. Contemporary reports describe the set as an hour of “hot guitar-fuelled funk.” Documented timings put the start at about 1:15 a.m. and the end around 2:05 a.m. (roughly 50 minutes). Prince left the venue around 3 a.m. with almost no paparazzi outside. The band was the same core unit as the main show: Prince (vocals, guitar), John Blackwell (drums), Rhonda Smith (bass), Renato Neto and rad./Chance Howard (keyboards), Greg Boyer (trombone), and Maceo Parker (saxophone). The documented setlist was short and typical of Prince aftershows—loose, cover-heavy, and with localised or newer material: • Funky U (tentative title for an unidentified or improvised jam) • Ooo Baby Baby (The Miracles cover) • All the Critics Love U in Hong Kong (the 1999 track “All the Critics Love U in New York,” with the city name swapped) • No Diggity (Blackstreet cover) • Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance (from the then-unreleased Musicology album, recorded earlier in 2003) Accounts emphasise the guitar-driven funk energy in the small room, confirming that Prince remained a force even in an intimate club setting. Unlike the hits-focused outdoor festival set, this was the classic aftershow format: closer, more spontaneous, and aimed at the fans who stayed late. The South China Morning Post later noted the venue mix-up under the headline “Prince gets the Edge over awaiting glitterati.” No widely available video or photo documentation of the aftershow itself has surfaced, unlike some footage from the main Harbour Fest performance. The Edge is long closed. This remains one of the more obscure documented aftershows on Prince’s short 2003 World Tour.