UPDATE: Night 2 happened! See the setlist.
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Paul McCartney announced a surprise, last minute intimate NYC show at Bowery Ballroom yesterday at noon, and now he’s done the same for tonight! Tickets are on sale now, and like night one, they’ll be on sale only at the Bowery Ballroom box office, with none sold online, and they’ll be limited to one ticket per person. Here’s the full announcement:
NEW DATE ADDED
🗽 PAUL McCARTNEY ROCKS THE BOWERY 🗽
Wednesday, February 12th. Bowery Ballroom, New York.5:00pm Doors
6:30pm ShowtimeTickets on sale now
First come, first served. One ticket per person.
Avoid purchasing tickets from third-party vendors. Fake tickets will not be honoured and entry will be denied.
Lots of people lined up early at the venue, which has a capacity of about 600 people, today, in hopes of a second show being announced:
Last night’s show had a chatty Paul doing a 22-song setlist with 14 Beatles songs, including their final song “Now and Then,” which recently won the Best Rock Performance Grammy. Read more about the show here.
Paul is in town for Sunday’s three-hour SNL 50th anniversary special, and he was also just at the Super Bowl. He also visited NYC in November for a screening of the new Beatles movie Beatles ’64, which you can read our review of.
This isn’t the first time Paul has played intimate NYC shows – he did a Valentine’s Day show at Irving Plaza 10 years ago, played Highline Ballroom in 2007, and livestreamed a Grand Central Terminal show in 2018. His last “proper” NYC-area show was at East Rutherford, NJ’s 80,000+ capacity MetLife Stadium in 2022.
