Paul McCartney Sets ‘Got Back’ Tour of Australia and New Zealand – Billboard

Paul McCartney has his sights set on a return to Australia, for his first tour there in six years.

The evergreen octogenarian had promised “information coming quickly” on his socials, and he delivers with the announcement of a brand new, Australian swing to his Received Again Tour, which is able to play two markets for the primary time – the satellite tv for pc cities of Newcastle (north of Sydney) and Gold Coast (south of Brisbane).

The Beatles nice’s trek is produced by Frontier Touring, the Melbourne-based concert events large, a part of the Mushroom Group, which secured his earlier tour of those components in 2017. That go to was McCartney’s first Down Underneath in nearly 1 / 4 century.

In an period when main enviornment and stadium excursions are recurrently introduced a 12 months forward of showtime, McCartney’s jaunt, set for this October and November, is tighter than most. McCartney isn’t any abnormal artist.

The 2-time Rock And Roll Corridor of Famer will embark on his run with an “intimate” date at Adelaide Leisure Centre, Oct. 18, the one enviornment present on the itinerary. When McCartney and the Beatles performed the South Australia capital in 1964, on the very peak of their powers, an estimated 350,000 folks lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the Fab 4. That’s roughly one-third town’s present inhabitants.

The six-city stretch contains outside dates in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Perth misses out.

“I’ve acquired so many superb reminiscences of my time in Australia through the years,” McCartney feedback in an announcement, confirming the Australia leg. “Our final journey was a lot enjoyable. We had such an unimaginable time. Every present was a celebration so we all know that is going to be extremely particular. Australia we’re going to rock! I can’t wait to see you.”

These reminiscences and events coalesced right into a tour for the ages. Macca’s five-city One On One Tour received the Helpmann for finest worldwide modern live performance in 2018, awarded by Stay Efficiency Australia, and was declared a profession spotlight by legendary promoter Michael Gudinski, the late founding father of Frontier Touring.

Becoming a member of McCartney on the highway is his longtime band, Paul “Wix” Wickens (keyboards), Brian Ray (bass/guitar), Rusty Anderson (guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (drums).

Following the discharge of Peter Jackson’s three-part 2021 documentary collection The Beatles: Get Again, McCartney launched into a 16-date U.S. run on his Received Again Tour, which final 12 months nudged his whole profession gross north of the $1 billion mark, making him one in every of simply 11 artists to surpass the 10-digit mark in Boxscore’s 30-year-plus historical past.

Tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 11 by way of frontiertouring.com/paulmccartney, with the Frontier members presale beginning earlier, on Wednesday, Aug. 9.

Paul McCartney – 2023 Received Again Tour of Australia:
Oct .18 — Adelaide Leisure Centre
Oct. 21 — Marvel Stadium, Melbourne, VIC
Oct. 24 — McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle
Oct. 27 — Allianz Stadium, Sydney
Nov. 1 — Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Nov. 4 — Heritage Financial institution Stadium, Gold Coast