Prince's Band The Revolution Announces September Tour Dates

Prince’s grieving former band will bring down the house in his memory during two September reunion tour dates and more on the horizon.

The late singer’s backup group, The Revolution, announced Wednesday it would honor Prince at downtown Minneapolis’ First Avenue club — where scenes from his seminal “Purple Rain” were filmed — on Sept. 2 and 3.

“With profound loss and apocalyptic grief, we, along with the world, mourned Prince upon the news of his passing,” the group said in a statement.

“After seeing the response outside of First Avenue and around the rest of the world’s monuments, we, as The Revolution — Wendy, Lisa, BrownMark, Dr. Fink and Bobby Z — have decided to pay tribute to Prince at home in the city of Minneapolis.”

Bassist BrownMark offered “Love & Peace” to fans and assured them the two dates at their home base were “just the beginning.”

“I need this as much as you. I have no closure, I have no peace and the void echoes loud in an empty space deep within,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “Playing my bass is the answer and sharing the music with you is what will heal.”

Wednesday’s announcement followed an earlier tease from the Purple One’s former band members, who initially announced their reunion tour plans in a Facebook video days after his April 21 death from an accidental fentanyl overdose.

Members of The Revolution, which broke up in 1986, played on Prince’s albums “Parade,” “1999” and “Around the World in a Day,” and were notably featured on his 1984 “Purple Rain” film and its soundtrack.

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