Paul McCartney announces surprise, intimate New York gig tonight
Paul McCartney has announced a surprise, last-minute, intimate gig in New York tonight (February 11), titled ‘Paul McCartney Rocks The Brewery’.
Announcing the news on Instagram, McCartney confirmed that the gig will take place at Bowery Ballroom, with doors opening at 5pm and the show starting at 6.30pm.
Tickets for the ‘Paul McCartney Rocks The Brewery’ gig were available on a first-come, first-served basis – however, they have already sold out.
Last year McCartney went on his ‘Got Back’ 2024 tour‘, and was even joined by Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr and Rolling Stones‘ Ronnie Wood for the final gig.
The ‘Got Back’ tour featured tracks from across McCartney’s catalogue, including some Beatles songs too. Some of the songs that featured included ‘Now and Then’, ‘Let It Be’, ‘Drive My Car’ and ‘Letting Go’.
Paul McCartney’s ‘Got Back’ setlist in Manchester, December 19 was:
‘A Hard Day’s Night’
‘Junior’s Farm’
‘Letting Go’
‘Drive My Car’
‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
‘Come On To Me’
‘Let Me Roll It’
‘Getting Better’
‘Let ‘Em In’
‘My Valentine’
‘Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five’
‘Maybe I’m Amazed’
‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’
‘In Spite of All the Danger’
‘Love Me Do’
‘Dance Tonight’
‘Blackbird’
‘Here Today’
‘Now and Then’
‘Lady Madonna’
‘Jet’
‘Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!’
‘Something’
‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’
‘Band on the Run’
‘Wonderful Christmastime’
‘Get Back’ (with Ronnie Wood)
‘Let It Be’
‘Live and Let Die’
‘Hey Jude’
‘I’ve Got A Feeling’
‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)’ (with Ringo Starr)
‘Helter Skelter’ (with Ringo Starr)
‘Golden Slumbers’
‘Carry That Weight’
‘The End’
In other McCartney-related news, he recently paid tribute to the late “beautiful, sweet” Marianne Faithfull who passed away on January 30.
He took to his official Instagram account to share a black and white photo of him alongside Faithfull, writing: “What sad news that Marianne Faithfull has passed away. She came into my life in the Sixties and was a beautiful, sweet 17 year old who radiated innocent joy. Then through the years I was lucky enough to run into her and to become a life-long friend.
“It’s very sad to think that I won’t be meeting her again but my memories of our encounters over the years will always bring me joy. May god bless you Marianne and guide you in the next steps of your journey – Paul.”
McCartney has also criticised proposed changes to copyright law, saying if it goes ahead it will allow AI to rip off artists and result in a “loss of creativity”.
“When we were kids in Liverpool, we found a job that we loved, but it also paid the bills,” he said during an interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. “You get young guys, girls, coming up, and they write a beautiful song, and they don’t own it, and they don’t have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants can just rip it off.”
“The truth is, the money’s going somewhere… Somebody’s getting paid, so why shouldn’t it be the guy who sat down and wrote ‘Yesterday’?”
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Aneesa Ahmed
NME
