First dates.................. September 17 – Quebec City, QC - the Videotron Centre September 20 – Montreal, QC - Bell Centre September 28 – Winnipeg, MB - Bell MTS Place September 30 – Edmonton, AB - Rogers Place
If I don't get jerked around when it comes to buying tickets like I did when he played Edmonton in 2012, I'll take my stepson, who's thirteen. Hey, he liked Roger Waters when we went last year, he'd probably get a boot out of seeing a Beatle. The missus already made it clear she has no desire to see McCartney a second time around.
"Freshen Up"? Though I'd obviously be thrilled if he really means it vis à vis the set list: just including 3-4 songs from the new album doesn't really count! Will certainly keep eyes peeled for NC dates. In the meantime, I'm going to have Dentyne ads going through my head...
I walked into that one! Although, tbf, technically ‘Come On To Me’ wouldn’t be a live debut, as the Bejowled Beatle already busted it out onstage at the Corden promo gig in London last month.
I'm not sure he will play "I Don't Know". It's fairly low key and most of the crowd.. um, won't know it. It depends on what other song options from Egypt Station might work better live I guess, even though they won't know those songs either.
I’m on the Preregistration for the Presale on Ticketmaster Canada for the Edmonton show! He’s playing indoors, so tickets availability will be kinda scarce, methinks.
My dream setlist, actual vocal range's accurate: Hofner: I Want To Hold Your Hand or She Loves You Junior's Farm Letting Go One After 909 Temporary Secretary Epiphone Casino: Paperback Writer Come On To Me Piano: My Valentine Here, There and Everywhere (in the key of E) Waterfalls (in the key of A) I Don't Know The Back Seat of My Car (In the key of B) Acoustic set: I Lost My Little Girl In Spite Of All The Danger I've Just Seen a Face Heart Of The Country (in the key of F) Bluebird Junk Woman (Lennon) or during an electric set "Good Morning Good Morning" (I know it's like 99% Lennon, but I think it would fit so greatly!) Magic Piano: Lady Madonna Your Mother Should Know Martin D-28: Every Night Happy With You Here Comes The Sun (Harrison) Hofner: When I'm 64 Eat at Home Goodnight Tonight Band on the Run Piano: No More Lonely Nights (in the key of D#) Let It Be Live and Let Die Magic piano: Hey Jude ------------------------ Epiphone Texan: Blackbird (in the key of F) Yesterday Calico Skies (Tribute to Linda) (in the key of C) Gibson Les Paul custom: Sgt Pepper's/The End That makes: 16/17 Beatles songs 6 Wings songs 13 solo songs and one cover song! All of that includes about 10 songs never every played live before! About 35 songs, 76 years old, a World Tour I think it's pretty relevant, the ratio of Hits/History is good, it makes die hard fans as satisfied as large audience, I think I did a great job there. Paul, let me work in your crew
Judging from the press release and, as I said, McCartney being unlikely to call his new tour FreshenUp to imply the old songs are stale, I'd keep my set list expectations in check We are looking forward to freshening up our show and playing some of our songs from the new album alongside those songs we know you like to hear. Sounds to me like Egypt Station songs and the tried and true. I'd love to be wrong.
Paul McCartney - Montreal PAUL McCARTNEY: September 30, 2018 Edmonton announced as stop on Paul McCartney’s 2018 tour
To be frightfully honest, the last thing I want is “New” stuff or newer stuff to dominate. This may be my last chance to finally see a Beatle. I want Fab Four and Wings. Healthy doses of both!
I will spend money to see a concert focused on the last 40 years. I probably won't spend more money to see basically the same concert focused on the first 11 years with lip service to the current marketing push thrown on top.
If you haven't seen Paul before, I certainly wouldn't begrudge you that. However, unless you're relatively young, that's all Paul's been doing for *years* - decades. This is admittedly a tedious old saw for many McCartney fans (and Frank already summed it up far more succintly but I'll blether on anyway). While I'm more than sympathetic to those not having seen him before getting to see him do the "hits", it isn't as if he's been under a rock or disavowing the material. At this stage it's really only about either being too young or not having the $/wherewithal to see him recently (legitimate enough reasons but still). But for those who have been - yes - fortunate to see him over the years, we too want Wings and Beatles, but way more Wings, some Beatles and please for goodness' sake a healthy representative dollop of all that other stuff that's populated 20+ albums since the Fabs. It feels crazy to have someone who's still making music over a 60+-year span that interests/moves you - one of the most prolific songwriters ever - and you only hear a teensy tiny percentage of it because the artist thinks (I suppose justifiably ) that's all folks want to hear? It will never fail seeming like the most incredible waste of the man's time and talent, despite whatever joy is still gained from hearing the same ol' warhorses for the umpteenth time. (And fwiw I have no doubt whatsoever that there will be critical consensus on this point, which will sadly be reached after the man himself is able to act upon it.)
Has anyone noticed that Paul's new tour name is the first tour ince the Up and Coming that doesn't start with an "O"?
I'm on the preregistration for Edmonton as well When he played here in 2012 I ended up paying a hundred bucks a pop for four fifty dollar nosebleed tickets thanks to those ratbastard bot/ticket scalpers. Damned if I'm making that mistake again! When I asked my stepson over dinner tonight if he wanted to go see McCartney, he said, "He was one of The Beatles, right? Sure, I'll go!" Naturally my wife pipes up, "What about me?" Facepalm. I go, "I thought you said once was enough for McCartney?" She said she'd go again if she knew he shook up the setlist. I told her if I could snag three tickets for under a hundred bucks each (after all, we don't have a money tree growing in the backyard, as my mum used to say) all three of us would go, otherwise it'll be just me and the boy.