Paul McCartney to Play in Ireland

Paul McCartney is coming to Ireland in May for a show at Dublin's RDS Arena.

The date of McCartney's first Irish gig in 40 years is 27 May with tickets, priced at €75 and €105, going on sale Thursday week (27th Feb).

Paul McCartney Live in Dublin

Paul McCartney is to play his first concert in Dublin in 40 years when he performs the biggest show of Beatles songs ever seen at the RDS Arena on 27th May 2003.

Paul McCartney will play the RDS Arena on May 27th, performing his all-hits 'Back In The World' show. The concert will be part of Paul's first tour of Europe since his New World Tour of 1993 - and his first show in Ireland since The Beatles played their only-ever Irish show at Dublin's Adelphi Cinema in November 1963.

Tickets - priced at €75 General Admission and €105 Seated - go on sale this Thursday, 27th February at 9.00am sharp and will be limited to six per person. The ticket hotline number is 1890 925 100.

Fronting a lean new band, Paul will bring to Dublin his acclaimed and hugely-successful new show that last year broke box office records all over America and won Billboard magazine's Tour Of The Year accolade as the most triumphant concert trek of 2002.

Paul McCartney's two and a half hour, 36-song show caused crowd mania last year in Mexico, Japan and America - where it was dubbed "the greatest hits show on Earth". The show includes 22 Beatles songs plus more than a dozen hits from his Wings and solo periods. With 22 Beatles songs in the set, Paul McCartney's show will feature twice the number of songs that The Beatles played in their 11-song set in Dublin in 1965.

The 'Back In The World' show in Dublin will include performance of Beatles songs never before played live in Europe.

Said Paul: "Playing in Dublin is going to mean a lot to me because Ireland is such a special place for me; my mother originally hailed from Ireland, it's where Heather and I chose to be married and I have a lot of ties with the land and the people. It's been a long time since I played there, so I'm hoping that this will be one rocking night to remember.

"I think people are going to like this gig - when I was thinking of what songs to play I just imagined myself as one of the audience and thought 'What would I like to hear him play?'

"So that means we'll be playing some of my Beatles stuff - rather a lot of Beatles stuff, actually - some Wings stuff and some more recent stuff; so basically the show pretty much spans my whole career. And I'm really getting off on playing it all with my new band, their energy and musicianship is phenomenal".

Paul McCartney's new band features Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray on guitars, Paul 'Wix' Wickens on keyboards and Abe Laboriel Jr. on drums.

In tandem with the European tour, on March 17th EMI Music will release two special souvenirs of the tour - a 37-song live album of the show, titled 'Back In The World' and 'Back In The U.S.' - a 3-hour DVD filmed inside the tour during its run across America.

The 'Back In The World' 2-CD album follows the 'Back In The U.S.' album that was recently released in America as a souvenir of the first US leg of the world tour. As the set list of songs for the European tour will differ from the American shows, the 'Back In The World' tracklist has been changed so that the European album is a proper souvenir of the European show.

The 'Back In The World' album will feature She's Leaving Home, Calico Skies, Michelle and Let 'Em In - alongside such classics as All My Loving, Back In The USSR, Band On The Run, Blackbird, Can't Buy Me Love, Carry That Weight, Coming Up, Eleanor Rigby, Fool On The Hill, Getting Better, Hello Goodbye, Here There And Everywhere, Hey Jude, I Saw Her Standing There, Jet, Live And Let Die and many others.

The 'Back In The US' DVD was previously only available in the USA and Japan, where it has already been a huge hit as sales in America alone have been triple-platinum status. The DVD has been dubbed "a rock and road movie" as it reveals not only the onstage concert action but also takes the viewer right inside the tour, filming Paul, his band and roadcrew backstage and offstage; inside dressing rooms, in the limos with Paul and even aboard his chartered jet for after-show mile-high party antics.

Paul McCartney's world tour, his most successful since The Beatles, began in Oakland, California, in April 2002. It has played through the USA, Canada, Mexico and Japan, 58 concerts in 37 cities, performing to one million people and breaking box office records in 21 towns during 18 weeks on the road. Paul McCartney's 'Back In The World Tour' will drive through Europe during March, April and May. The tour will include concerts in:

Paris - March 25
Barcelona - March 28
Sheffield - April 5 & 6
Manchester - April 9
Birmingham - April 13 & 14
London - April 18 & 19
Arnhem - April 25
Koln - April 27
Hannover - April 30
Vienna - May 14
Hamburg - May 21
Dublin - May 27

Paul McCartney - Please Play in Ireland

Paul McCartney - Please Play in Ireland.

40 years have passed since Paul last played here in Ireland. That was 7th November 1963 in the Adelphi Theatre, Dublin. Since then Paul has had numerous world tours and has always omitted to play here.

He always says he would love too play here and was working on it but it never happened. Paul is planning a European tour after his very successful Driving U.S.A. Tour and Beatles Ireland would like your support to let Paul know we would love to see him include a live concert here.

Your support with this petition will be highlighted in a publicity campaign for Paul to recognise his loyal Irish fans.

Please lend your support to this campaign by contacting us and letting us know how you feel about this, and we will put these on the web site for the rest of the world to see.

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Thanking you in advance for your support from all our team at Beatles Ireland.

Pete Brennan

Come on Paul - You love coming to Ireland and having a treat - now it time to give your Irish fans a treat.

Derek

I'd love to see Paul play here in Ireland - after all - 40 years is a long time to wait for the man! There are tens of thousands of people who I'm sure would love to see him!

Please come and play here Paul!

John Cummins.
IT Blanchardstown.
01791877

Hi,

I would like you to add my name to the protest list for Paul McCartney to play Ireland next year

Regards

Sarah

As someone who wasn't around the last time Paul played here I would love to get the opportunity to listen live to (the better) half of the greatest songwriting duo ever. If only I had been born 40 years earlier.....in any case I'd love to see him perform here and with a little luck maybe he will..bad pun, sorry.Come on Paul give us a gig,

Ciarán, Rathfarnham, Dublin.

Dear Pete
What I would love is for Paul to play 5 nights in the Point as this would give us all an opportunity to see him close up. I don't think Slane would be best suited at this stage of his career. I would love to hear him do an acoustic set at the start of the concert before the band comes out. Nick Lowe does this very successfully whenever he plays here. Also the 5 nights would give him the opportunity of inviting a few Irish stars to duet on Beatle songs. Macca and Bono on 'Helter Skelter' anyone?
Cheers

Dermot Walsh

Hi guys Nigel Here,

I would like to add my name to your petition to get "Macca" To play Ireland. I personally would love to see him play a gig here. I also believe that because of his Irish roots that he should give something back to the Irish people.

C'mon Macca, You'd be most welcome in Ireland and we'd all love to see you here!!

Nigel

Hi

I would love if Paul would play some concerts over here.
It would be all my Christmases all together he wrote a song about Ireland he married over here why not play.
so please please me.

Jon from Cabra

Hi,

Yes it's time Paul recognised his Irish roots and came back to play! His mum was called Mary Patricia Mohan from County Monaghan. She came over when she was 11 to Liverpool. She became a health visitor and midwife and met his dad, who was from the North.

Thx,
Dermot.

Hi

As a guy who was outside the Adelphi on that night in `63 (I could not get a ticket) I would love to add my name to the campaign to try and get Paul to play here. My mates would love to join in also, hope it works,

Paul its not for the want of trying but persistence has to pay off after this length of time how many times have we wrote letters petitions from fans not just here in Ireland but fans all over.

The Irish Media any time you are interviewed are asked the same question when playing Ireland always your reply I'm working on it. When we met you first in Liverpool at the classical concert and presented you with a fine piece of waterford crystal engraved in Irish you were asked please play Ireland. You smiled and said those famous words "I'm working on it". When you got married here we presented you both with a lovely framed coat of arms of both your families and again were asked please play Ireland.

When in London recently a petition was hand delivered to your house, you were in, we know that because you waved at us and sent your security man to remove us which I didn't think was to Paul McCartney like.

So Paul we are not going to give up the Irish fans deserve better treatment than being constantly ignored REMEMBER YOUR IRISH ROOTS. WE DO. Looking forward to your return.

Persistent Pete

Paul, please please play here in Ireland. You have thousands upon thousands of fans wishing you could play here. Any gig would no doubt be a sell out so that shouldn't be an issue. Maybe squeeze us in on the up and coming tour?

Phil

I am delighted to give my support to this campaign.
it was 40 years ago............please come back in 2003!
from one of your greatest fans.

Maurice McCarthy.....Wexford

Would love to see Paul play in Ireland, anywhere, anytime. We need to get this petition going properly, any suggestions? Perhaps getting the media involved a bit more?

Fiona Ni Lionnain

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