ASK PAUL MCCARTNEY JUST WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO PLAY THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL!

Over here on Paul’s official site we have just launched the first of many www.paulmccartney.com features. This first one is on Paul's historic show at Glastonbury last June. You can now quiz Paul about what his experience was like and how it compared to other career highlights, plus view pictures and clips from the show and vote for your favourite songs that you want to see in full on paulmccartney.com.

The best 20 questions submitted will be selected and then answered by Paul. There will be an exclusive prize for the best question as chosen by Paul. Paul’s Glastonbury Q&A is brought to you in collaboration with www.uncut.co.uk and www.nme.co.uk

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Just read News Briefs about the Macca Glastonbury BBC broadcasts and was really fed up to read that I'd missed a lot of the show on BBC2 as I was watching BBC3's coverage. But...BBC3's coverage included only 2 songs..Penny Lane & Hey Jude. So in order to have seen the whole thing I'd have needed 2 TV's on at the same time anyway!:-) Anyway, thought you'd like to know the other songs broadcast. Love your site.

Update (6/27/04)

Listening to a lot of coverage on Radio and TV before this weekend's Glastonbury Festival. It is being said that Paul is going to do some songs with Oasis... who of course have a certain Zak Starkey playing for them. This is speculation of course but would be in keeping with the vibe of this great music festival.

That should be a nice buzz for the Gallagher brothers who have built a nice career writing Beatle-esque songs - not that there's anything wrong with that and at least they give the Fabs full credit.

BBCTV and Radio do extensive coverage of this festival and it should be possible to hear a lot of the performers by listening to one of the BBC radio stations online. 6Music is covering a lot of the festival and are streamed online :

Update (6/22/04)

Hi, Steve--

I just spoke with Rusty Anderson, who told me a little about the show they performed in St. Petersburg, Russia. He said that during the concert's pre-show, it was raining quite heavily - but the clouds broke up just before the concert itself began! Also, though Russian President Putin was not able to attend this time around, he did call Paul personally to congratulate him on the show. He also noted that the concert was filmed (as has, I believe, the rest of the tour) by "Back in the U.S." video director Mark Haefeli. Matt

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Omsider trivelig med Macca http://www.nrk.no/musikk/0.html?p_saksunivers_id=16973
http://www.nrk.no/musikk/3862945.html
Siri (28) fikk bil av Paul McCartney
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=230729

«Sneik» i køen - fikk luksusbil av McCartney
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2004/06/15/400505.html

Plankekjøring med Macca
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=230725

Hi! My website The Magical Beatle Tours at http://home.tiscali.se/magicalbeatletours/ has now been updated with 'The Night Before'. You're right!! On near 50 beautiful pictures you can visit the fantastic evening at Restaurant Tradgar'n in Gothenburg, Sweden last Friday, June 11th. The world-famous Beatle band Lenny Pane had brought together lots of guests to celebrate Paul McCartney's concert at Ullevi Stadium on Saturday on June 12th. All in co-operation with Beatles Information Center. The first sensational guest was none other than Rusty Anderson, guitarist in Paul McCartney's own band! He signed his CD, and also made an exclusive concert for us. The other guests was also really good, including many famous artists from Sweden, like Triple & Touch, Gladys del Pilar, Peter Ekberg, Johan Lagerstrom, Jack Mittleman, Iris, Wille Crafoord and Jim Jidhed. We got a wonderful night with lots of great music!

Enjoy!
Bengt Warmlind
The Magical Beatle Tours
home.tiscali.se/magicalbeatletours

Update (6/15/04)

Hi there, Steve,

I have put out a little photo gallery with a bunch of pics I took at Paul's concerts in Horsens in Denmark. Two great concerts by the way! Only the first picture is from June 8th (where I was in 2nd row - almost impossible to take photos from here because of the very alert stage security crew). The rest of the photos is from 9th June in 10th row where it was possible to take more pics without getting caught.

All the best
Morten

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There is a video report of Paul's concert in Prague. See this link and click on Zprávy 22:15. The Macca segment is at the 6th minute of news coverage.

Hi! Thank you for your great Beatle site! Just like to mention that on Swedish tv4 news channal, there were a story about Paul´s coming concert in Sweden (june 12) tonight, which showed Paul and the band walking out from the dressing room, singing "You won´t See Me" a capella. Never seen that before? Anyway thanks again Olav

Update (6/6/04)

Leipzig photos:

Update (6/2/04)

Hi, Paul McCartney's concert at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg June 12th, 2004, will be celebrated at Restaurant Tradgar'n June 11th. The Beatles Event is called 'The Night Before'. The night is featuring one of the world's leading Beatles Bands: Lenny Pane from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Guest stars will be the group Triple & Touch, singers Wille Crawford, Iris and Jim Jidhed. And most sensational of all! Guest Star of the the night will be none other than Paul's own guitarist Rusty Anderson!!! Paul is invited. But he will certainly not attend. This is his wedding-day! The party continues on June 12th.

Some news from Gothenburg, Sweden_

The day before the concert at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden Rusty Andersson will make a soloperformance at Rest Trädgår´n and play songs from his new album Undressing Underwater. The Concert called the Night Before ( or Lenny Pane as it says on the tickets) is a fantastic pre party before the Ullevi concert. and will include not only Rusty, but great Swedish muscians as Lenny Pane, Wille Crafood, Triple & Touch to mention a few.

Ticket are available from www. ticnet.se.

Hi, Steve,

Update news: TV Globo in Brazil recorded Paul McCartney show in Lisboa, but it transmitted only three songs: "Get Back", "She's A Woman" and "Live And Let Die" yesterday, Sunday night, May 30th. TV Globo would transmit these parts a day before, however the organizers of Rock In Rio Lisboa didn't authorize the transmmission on Saturday, May 29th.

Dear Steve,

Just to let Australian Beatle Fans know that in the Weekend Australian there is a good supplement on the Beatles Australian Tour circa 1964, in recognition of its 40th anniversery. Its even has an up-to-date picture of Jimmy Nicol and his house which is quite surprising. Also in regards to the 40th anniversary, whoever is the Australian distributor for the catologue is using it as a selling tool and they are reducing all the CDs including Live at the BBC in recognition of the anniversary as well.
Thanks for the great site .

Paul McCartney’s 04 Summer Tour kicked off in spectacular fashion this week with an unforgettable show at Gijon’s El Molinon Stadium on Tuesday night. The frenzied and passionate Spanish crowd were treated to a set by Paul and his band which included huge hits, fan favourites and rarely played gems from the whole of McCartney’s career.

The classics, Let It Be, Maybe I’m Amazed, Jet, Band On The Run and Yesterday rubbed shoulders with delightful suprises including Helter Skelter, I've Got a Feeling and Flaming Pie, plus crackling live outings of Drive My Car, Penny Lane and even a cover of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. As reported on Paul’s official site the show made several national and local newspapers the very next day and even jammed the local mobile phone network as fans at the show attempted to relay the atmosphere and performance to those who missed out – system overload!

The full tracklisting can be found in the news section at www.paulmccartney.com (Editor's note...also below in the 5/28/04 update), plus keep checking back for exclusive images from each city Paul rocks on the 04 Summer Tour! Next stop is tonight at the Parque Bela Vista in Lisbon – brace yourself Portugal…

Jet, Got To Get You Into My Life, Flaming Pie, All My Loving, Let Me Roll It, You Won't See Me, She's a Woman, Maybe I'm Amazed, The Long and Winding Road, In Spite of All the Danger (!), Blackbird, We Can Work It Out, Here Today, All Things Must Pass, I'll Follow the Sun, For No One, Calico Skies, I've Just Seen A Face, Eleanor Rigby, Drive My Car, Penny Lane, Get Back, Band on the Run, Back in the USSR, Live and Let Die, I've Got a Feeling, Lady Madonna, Hey Jude. First encore: Yesterday, Let It Be, I Saw Her Standing There. Second encore: Helter Skelter (!), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. (Thanks to Konstantin Galybin.) (Chas Carey tells us he repeated I'll Follow the Sun after For No One because the first version was too short.)

Update (5/27/04)

http://rockinrio-lisboa.sapo.pt/nc02/470778.html?lang=en

NOTE: TRANSLATION IS NOT MINE
Claudio


Quote:
Rock in Rio-Lisboa to be broadcasted in more than 40 countries
The images from Rock in Rio-Lisboa will be transmitted to more than 45
countries via several television channels.
Rock in Rio-Lisboa will be seen by over a billion viewers via several
television channels that purchased the broadcasting rights of the world's
biggest music event.

The interest demonstrated by the viewers in what concerns Rock in Rio-Lisboa
led these channel's responsible teams to assure that the best moments of the
festival will reach the entire world. The audience is guaranteed for the
channels that purchased these broadcasting rights and that presently lead
the audiences rate in those countries where they are present, including CBS
(USA), NTV (Japan) and Channel 4 (United Kingdom).

All the channels that purchased the broadcasting rights will offer to the
viewers images of Rock in Rio-Lisboa, via daily programs lasting 1 or 2
hours, as well as via some special programs all along the Summer.

Portugal and Brazil are the only countries broadcasting live from Rock in
Rio-Lisboa.

This is, doubtlessly, the most important television coverage that ever took
place regarding this type of event.

Until the opening of the festival's doors there is enough time to enlarge
this list with more television stations, so you must come back again to read
everything updated.

Australia also joined this set, with transmissions via Nine, TV leader that
will present two daily programs lasting 1 hour each one.
In Australia, Rock in Rio-Lisboa will also be broadcasted by Channel V (with
some daily special programs covering the six days of the event).

This is, until now, the available list. However, new agreements are being
signed every day.
Country TV Station
Angola SIC
Argentina CH 09
Asia Satellite STAR TV (more than 10 countries)
Australia Nine Network and Channel V
Brazil Globo
Bulgaria Balkan News
Canada MuchMusic and MusiquePlus
Chile Canal 13
China CTV
Denmark DR TV
Finland YLE
Netherlands RTL
Hong Kong STAR
Hungary Viva TV
Indonesia Ch 7
India Star Network
Italy Rete All Music and RAI SAT
Japan NTV
Mozambique SIC
New Zealand TVNZ
Norway TV2
Portugal SIC
Singapore Mediacorp
Sweden TV4/TV4+
Thailand Ch7
United Kingdom Channel 4
Uruguay Teledoce
USA CBS

The Portuguese radio RFM Online will transmmit all the shows of the festival Rock In Rio Lisboa, include the historic first performance of Paul McCartney in Portugal on May 28th. It is the official radio of the festival. The main page of RFM is: http://www.rfm.pt/destaque.asp?destaque=94. To listen the show, click on the link "Emissão" in the main page. Also, clicking on the picture of Paul on the main page, you can find more informations about the show. It is worthwhile to click on the links which appears on the text.

• http://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/ediciones/20040526/cultura/d26cul50.33701.php
• http://www.elcomerciodigital.com/pg040526/prensa/noticias/Sociedad/200405/26/GIJ-SOC-186.html
• http://www.larazon.es/noticias/noti_esp01.htm
• http://www.libertaddigital.com/./noticias/noticia_1276223709.html
• http://www.diariodecadiz.com/edicion/cultura/cultura488351.htm
• http://www.elcomerciodigital.com/pg040526/prensa/noticias/Sociedad/200405/26/GIJ-SOC-174.html
• http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/05/26/cultura/1085529356.html
• http://www.diariovasco.com/pg040526/actualidad/gente/200405/26/DVA_McCartney_abrio_gira.html

Update (5/25/04)

According to the Brazilian website Terra, Paul McCartney made some requests to the organizers of Rock In Rio Lisboa: 250 white towels and several types of flowers such as roses and gardenias. The furniture of his dressing room backstage can't be made of animal skin, not even imitation animal skin. He also said a staff of 50 people will stay with him backstage.

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In addition, there's this update from paulmccartney.com and how fans were looking for the rehearsal venue:

Paul McCartney’s “04 Summer Tour”, set to launch on May 25th in Gijon, Spain, has entered rehearsals and as scores of fans scour known rehearsal halls in England some have even taken to checking out airline hangers. “I’ve heard that the equipment for the tour is massive, so my friends and I decided to check out some of the abandoned airline hangers at some of the private airstrips,” said one fan. “But, they weren’t there yet. I reckon that we’ll try again in a few days.”

From the sound of things checking in an airline hanger might not be a bad idea. Insiders have confirmed that “04 Summer Tour” can boast the largest outdoor video system EVER, nearly 80,000 pounds of equipment. The colossal concert production is sure to be loud, so those looking for the rehearsal site shou ld listen for it – 75 speakers boast more then 75,000 watts of power. There are pyrotechnics and a massive stage set, which will use 18 production rigs to carry from gig to gig.

Macca’s “04 Summer Tour” is set to play 14 dates throughout Europe, 7 first-time performance visits as well as 5 concerts in cities that haven’t rocked with him since 1989’s “Get Back World Tour” or 1993’s “New World Tour”. Tour dates include Gijon, Lisbon, Madrid, Zurich, Leipzig, Prague, Horsens, Gothenburg, Oslo, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Paris and Glastonbury.

PAUL MCCARTNEY - 04 SUMMER TOUR IS NEARLY UPON US – WE HAVE OUR TICKETS, HAVE YOU GOT YOURS?! Not long now…a little over four weeks in fact! Yes, as you all know Paul is back on the road and to celebrate www.paulmccartney.com will soon commence in offering an exciting assortment of special tour features. Check back to the site next week for chances to win exclusive tickets to each show from the tour, to check out new tour photos, classic live footage and tracks and of course keep right up to date on all the news from Summer trek. The tour production is in full swing for what promises to be Paul’s finest live outing yet and you can get right up in there and part of the action through www.paulmccartney.com... and of course by grooving to some of the world’s finest rock n’ roll at a stadium near you! Snap up the final remaining tickets and prepare groove in the Summer sun. The 04 SUMMER TOUR will see Paul rocking cities he has NEVER played before, kicking -off on Tuesday, May 25th at Gijon’s El Molinon Stadium. Macca’s NEW, 13-city “04 Summer Tour” will be highlighted with 7 first-time performance visits as well as 5 concerts in cities that haven’t rocked with him since 1989’s “Get Back World Tour” or 1993’s “New World Tour”.

“Touring really has been a lot of fun for us and the audiences have been great,” said McCartney. “So why stop now? I’m looking forward to playing and to visiting some new places.”

The all-stadium “04 Summer Tour”, which will feature music from The Beatles, Wings and McCartney’s solo career, is currently set to play to nearly 700,000, which would bring to more then 3 million, who have seen McCartney since his return to the road in April 2002.

Among many of the highlights of “04 Summer Tour” are sur! e to be Macca’s return to Russia, for a special performance in St. Petersburg’s Palace Square, as well as his first-time visits to Lisbon, Leipzig, Prague and Horsens before closing out the all-stadium tour with a special appearance at The Glastonbury Festival.

In addition, Macca is looking forward to performances in Madrid, Gothenburg, Zurich, Oslo and Helsinki, cities that haven’t seen him in more then a decade. A return to Paris is also planned for Thursday, June 24th, where McCartney’s critically hailed “Back In The World” Tour began last March.

Update (4/8/04)

Hello Steve,

I am sending you a little explanation on the concert in Prague. Municipal disapproval of the concert venue in Chodov was behind the venue change in Prague. The new location Kolbenova Park is closer to the center and situated in Prague 9 - Vysocany (100 m from the metro B station "Kolbenova"). The organizers assure that purchased tickets with the former venue (T-Mobile Park, Chodov) are valid. Cathegories and seats quality is conserved. Attendance of 60.000 people is expected.

Here is a list of Prague hotels offering special prices for accommodation with 2 tickets :

http://prague.nethotels.com/nethotels/English/view_package.asp?IDPackage=27 . Prices are in Czech crowns. Exchange rates : USD/CZK 27,00 and EUR/CZK 33,00

Regards from the Czech Republic.

Update (4/7/04)

The Prague concert location has changed to Park Kolbenova (Prague 9) No idea what is the reason though.

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Update (3/28/04)

Hi Steve,

Just received my tickets for the June 24th show in Paris. Ordered via www.fnac.com Payment by creditcard. Love your site, just continue. Regards fom Holland.

Today's (or actually last Saturday's) news:

As reported in Norway's largest newspaper, VG (http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=219991), the Paul McCartney concert in Oslo on the 14th of June seems to turn into a bit of a special night.

Paul (or rather someone in his staff) has discovered that among the audience this night will be audience number 8 million since he went solo. And this member of the audience (or rather, a more or less random member of the audience, I presume) will be picked out by Paul's staff before the show to meet Paul backstage and receive a set of keys to a new car. I wonder if it will be a Volkswagen New Beetle? ;-)

The rest of the audience can look forward to a special night as well, it seems, as Paul indicates that at this particular show he will play a number of Beatles songs he has never performed before (presumably not even on the rest of the tour).

He says he doesn't know yet exactly which songs that will be, but that it will be songs from the period after the Beatles stopped touring. I had a look through my records, and if memory serves, these are the songs from Sgt. Pepper and onwards that Paul has never performed live (I know a lot of people will correct me if I'm wrong):

* Fixing A Hole * When I'm Sixty-Four (but he's likely to wait a couple of years to peeform that one, don't you think?) * Lovely Rita * Your Mother Should Know * Wild Honey Pie (but what's the point? :-) * Martha My Dear * Rocky Raccoon * Why Don't We Do It In The Road? * I Will * Helter Skelter * Honey Pie * All Together Now * Maxwell's Silver Hammer * Oh! Darling * She Came In Through The Bathroom Window * I've Got A Feeling

Some seem more likely than others. :-) Personally, as a big fan of his solo stuff as well, I wouldn't mind hearing some of the Wings and solo stuff he seldom plays. But I guess that's less likely. Paul seems to put effort into giving the audience "Beatles value for money" these days. And I'm sure that's what the majority of the audience wants, so...

A splendid time is guaranteed for all in any case!

Ole

P.S. Though, of course, I feel certain that _I_ will be the lucky person picked out to meet Paul and get a new car, my friend has said that if he's picked out, he'll take the car and let ME meet Paul. ;-)

Update (3/11/04)

With regards to Paul's tour, the Leipzig show seems to be sold out officially. But www.ventic.de sells tickets for Prague and Leipzig from € 78,- to € 155,-.

At www.ebay.de ( http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&shortcut=4&query=paul+mccartney&Category0=8529 ) a lot of costly Leipzig tickets are available. Glad I saw him last year - in the driving rain.

Hi, Steve:

Hello from Finland! It´s been awhile...

Paul will play in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in 17th June. The ticket sale will start here on next Monday, 15th March. The stadium has room for an audience of 43 000 people. Ticket prizes are about normal: from 65 to 79 euros. The Stones were more expensive last summer.

I hope, and believe, that Macca will get a full house. It´s been so long time we have seen Him here in Finland. The last time he played live in Finland was with the Wings in summer 1972, 32 years ago! And the sad truth behind all this is that the Fab Four never played in our country.

The next day after the Helsinki concert will be Paul´s 62th birthday. I look forward to see if he plays "Birthday" (from the White album) here the night before! . And maybe he stays here to party? Or perhaps it´s more possible that he flies home to celebrate with his family?

In theory we may have another concert here. The Finnish promotor said that he tries to book Paul for 16th June also, if the 17th June will sell out. There is a free day in the time table of the tour. You never know...

all the best!
from
Ilkka

Dear Steve,

For all the Macca-Fans who have the opportunity to see Paul in Germany here's a link for tickets for his show in Leipzig. I bought my tickets for Paul's show in Munich with GET GO last year. They accept credit cards and everything went fine. This will hopefully also help the lad from Holland who wrote that he couldn't get Danish tickets: http://www.getgo.de/cgi-bin/TINFO.DLL?fun=TDETAILA&backdoc=start&backdll=TDoc.dll&doc=detaila&id=gtn&key=128477

Thanks a lot for keeping me updated every day and for your great website!

Here's a note from Hofner if you planning to travel for the show:

I want to let you know that I just tried to buy tickets for the Denmark Paul McCartney concert. The concert on the 8 of June was sold out but they told me there will be another one at the 9th. But, they also told me that it is not possible to buy tickets if you have an address outside Denmark (and I live in The Netherlands). I have a VISA but they will not accept it without a telephone number & adress in Denmark which makes me very angry!

Update (3/6/04)

Update (3/2/04)

Update II (2/27/04) Posted today at www.paulmccartney.com and sent to us by Bill King of Beatlefan:

OH YEAH! MACCA'S BACK TO ROCK WITH EUR-"O4 SUMMER" TOUR

27.02.2004

McCartney's NEW '04 SummerÓ Stadium Tour Gets Macca Here, There And Somewhere's He's Never Been

The wait for summer is over and so is the wait for the legions of PAUL McCARTNEY fans whose cities have NEVER played host to a night of history Macca-style. Set to kick-off on Tuesday, May 25th at Gijon's El Molinon Stadium, Macca's NEW, 13-city '04 Summer Tour" will be highlighted with 7 first-time performance visits as well as 5 concerts in cities that haven't rocked with him since 1989's "Get Back World Tour" or 1993's "New World Tour".

"Touring really has been a lot of fun for us and the audiences have been great," said McCartney. "So why stop now? I'm looking forward to playing and to visiting some new places."

The all-stadium '04 Summer Tour, which will feature music from The Beatles, Wings and McCartney's solo career, is currently set to play to nearly 700,000, which would bring to more then 3 million, who have seen McCartney since his return to the road in April 2002.

Among many of the highlights of '04 Summer Tour are sure to be Macca's return to Russia for a special performance in St. Petersburg's Palace Square, as well as his first-time visits to Lisbon, Leipzig, Prague and Horsens before closing out the all-stadium tour with a special appearance at The Glastonbury Festival.

In addition, Macca is looking forward to performances in Madrid, Gothenburg, Zurich, Oslo and Helsinki, cities that haven't seen him in more then a decade. A return to Paris is also planned for Thursday, June 24th, where McCartney's critically hailed 'Back In The World Tour began last March.

'04 SUMMER TOUR

Tuesday, May 25th Gijon,Estadio El Molinon

Friday, May 28th Lisbon, Parque Bela Vista

Sunday, May 30th Madrid, Estadio de Madrid

Wednesday, June 2nd Zurich, Letzigrund Stadium

Friday, June 4th, Leipzig, Leipzig Zentralstadion

Sunday, June 6th, Prague, T-Mobile Park

Tuesday, June 8th, Horsens, Forum Horsens Stadium

Saturday, June 12th, Gothenburg, Ullevi Stadium

Monday, June 14th, Oslo, Valle Hovin Stadion

Thursday, June 17th, Helsinki, Olympiastadion

Sunday, June 20th, St. Petersburg, Palace Square

Thursday, June 24th, Paris, Stade de France

Saturday, June 26th, Glastonbury Worthy Farm Pilton

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BBC: McCartney to headline Glastonbury

Update (2/29/04)

The Sun: Macca to headline Glasto

NME.com: Paul can't wait for Glastonbury

Ireland Online: McCartney to headline Glastonbury

Undercover Music: Paul to head back to the USSR

Webindia123: Paul McCartney is dying to go on tour

Reuters: McCartney to rock Glastonbury festival (Thanks to Claudio Dirani for a couple of the links.)

Rockinrio Lisboa: Sir Paul McCartney em Portugal (translation required)

Update (2/26/04)

We've added a couple of dates to the table above (thanks to Vitor Suman for the additons). None of the dates are confirmed.

Update (2/22/04)

From Markus den Boer:

According to a news e-mail from the german Beatles Museum in Halle (www.beatlesmuseum.halle.de/) Paul will play a concert in Leipzig (East Germany), Zentralstadion on June 4th 2004. Seems that this date is more or less affirmed from EMI germany. All The Best Markus

Update (2/21/04)

Negotiations are ongoing for Paul's concert in St. Petersburg, but no agreements have been reached, reports the St. Petersburg Times (second item).

Update (2/17/04)

From Niklas Nillson:

According to Swedish paper Aftonbladet McCartney will play in Gothenburg on the 12th of June this year.

Update (2/16/04)

From Mark Johnson in Sweden:

On Feb. 14th, one of the evening newspapers in Gothenburg, Sweden ("GT") announced that Paul would play at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg on June 12, 2004. The report was not denied by Paul's concert group. I can't find anything on the web that reports this concert, but it was front-page headlines in GT. I will write more if I hear more. Mark Johnson Göteborg, Sweden

Update (2/13/04)

We hear Paul will be doing a warm-up tour in Europe this spring, then a big world tour in 2005 that will include shows in the U.S. (Thanks to Plastic Mac.)

Here's a tour package offering for the Paris concert. (Thanks to Claudio Dirani.)
Update (2/12/04)

A tour seems to be shaping up. Tickets for a June 24 Paris show are listed here. (Thanks to Claudio Dirani.) (Late update: It was listed there when we updated the page, but now the show listing is gone.)

From Marco Briones in São Paulo - Brazil:

Today on the TERRA Website some rumours about a possible Macca concert in Rio were mentioned. According to the site, it would take place on May 29 , on Aterro do Flamengo - (Flamengo Beach) in Rio. However , EMI Brasil didn't confirm or deny the rumors. They simply do not know anything about it, but said it might be possible, since they were informed about Coldplay's concerts in Brasil only a month before they actually took place. Let's cross our fingers and hope Macca comes to Brazil again on the next tour , later this year.

Update (2/11/04)

From Carlos André

Brazilian periodical O DIA published about advanced negotiations between Rio de Janeiro City Hall and Paul McCartney. As they published MacCa will play a Gig in Aterro do Flamengo this year for a estimated 500,000 people audience. Cesar Maia, Rio's mayor, is known as a huge Beatles fan.

Some years ago he planned a REUNION concert with the three surviving Beatles in Rio. Recently Maia tried to change the name of a Rio''s legendary rock temple FLYING CIRCUS to homage John Lennon. He was sad when as seeing his projected was rejected and declared "I'll play my Lennon Legend DVD for the thousandth time".

And Claudio Dirani:

I'll translate this bit of news that came out on a Brazilian site today:

www.glamurama.com.br Pão de Açúcar
> 10/02 - 09:23 - Já é quase certo. Paul McCartney deve mesmo fazer um show no Rio de Janeiro, no dia 29 de maio. Ainda falta fechar alguns detalhezinhos, mas o local da apresentação já está definido: o Aterro do Flamengo, com o Pão de Açúcar de fundo. Pelo sim, pelo não, os fãs do ex-Beatle já reservaram a data na agenda.

Paul McCartney is really due to play a gig in Rio de Janeiro on next May, 29. A few details are yet to be worked on, however, the concert's venue is already confirmed: It's set to be at Aterro do Flamengo, where you can watch the Pão de Açúcar (a traditional Brazilian's sightseeing landmark) in the background. Whether it'll happen or not, Paul McCartney's fans have already marked show's date on their diaries.

Claudio

PS: let's hope it's real!

(2/10/04) Is Paul touring again? In addition to the St. Petersburg concert we've written about (see item dated 2/3/04 below), this French site indicates a concert for June 24. Here's a note from Phillipe Colinge:

To my greatest amazement, I read today on the respected French Beatles website yellow-sub.net that a concert by Paul is to take place on 24 June at the Stade de France stadium in Paris... Since I haven't read any official announcement for a tour, or even for a one-off concert, on any website or in anay magazine, do you know what substance we must give to this ?

Actually, there is some sort of official announcement to be found on the ticketnet website here but this is all new and surprising to me, specially considering that Paul has yet to finish his new album, to look after baby Beatrice and after Heather as well.

Comment: To us, as well. We'll see what develops. If anyone hears of any other shows, let us know. (Thanks also to Claudio Dirani.)
(2/3/04) The St. Petersburg Times has a story indicating Paul is planning to play a concert in the St. Petersburg Palace Square. Though there's been no official confirmation from McCartney spokesman Geoff Baker, who said he knew nothing about it, McCartney tour director Barrie Marshall wrote a letter to Russian officials on Paul's behalf. It read, "Paul was very impressed with the city and the culture, and after the wonderful reception he received in Moscow, Paul felt that to play a concert in St. Petersburg would be a great way to finish off his informal visit there last year." The concert is due to take place May 27. (Thanks to Claudio Dirani.)

Itar-Tass: Paul McCartney wants to visit Russia again

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