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Report by Bob Gannon: Sound Check Hi gang,  Just getting back from the show & soundcheck and it's been a long day. When they brought us into the arena for soundcheck, only Wix was on stage playing with his equipment. A short time later, Brian Ray came out and immediately began playing his guitar parts for Hi,Hi,Hi. He tried several different effects on his guitar until they found the one that they liked. Rusty came out after ... more

The news of Paul McCartney and Québec City made its way quickly through Canada and all of North America, and many fans are eager to get their hands on Paul McCartney tickets. The large, luscious and sprawling venue inside of Battlefields Park is the perfect location for a live concert, and the fact that one of the true living legends of rock 'n roll will be playing on the grounds for the first time makes it a ... more

Sir Paul McCartney will be playing at Scotiabank Place in July. Mayor Jim Watson made the announcement Monday evening at the venue alongside representatives of Live Nation Entertainment and Scotiabank Place. None of the four Beatles has ever played Ottawa. Tickets for the July 7 concert will be going on sale this Friday at 10 a.m., and they range in price from $50 to $275. McCartney's Out There tour also includes dates in the U.S., Brazil, Poland, ... more

Making an album – even a classic album – sometimes can be an exercise in overcoming adversity. Still, the monumental troubles that Paul McCartney and Wings had to surmount to record Band on the Run, easily McCartney’s best post-Beatles album, easily could have served as fodder for an epic Hollywood film. It all began with McCartney’s desire to work in a locale that was off the beaten path. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately, as it turned out), his ... more

Want a taste of Paul McCartney live before his July show in Ottawa? Or perhaps you’re one of many people who didn’t get a ticket to the concert, the fastest sell-out in the history of Scotiabank Place. McCartney fans can whet their appetite, or find consolation, in Rockshow, the Paul McCartney and Wings concert film that will come to Cineplex theatres in Ottawa in a couple of weeks. Rockshow was recorded on Wings’ 1976 tour, the same ... more

When I first screamed my heart out for Paul McCartney at Maple Leaf Gardens back in 1965, I never imagined that years later, I’d not only have the thrill of interviewing the famous Beatle on several occasions but also meeting his beloved first wife, the talented Linda McCartney, who exhibited her photography in Toronto in 1990. Five years later, I found myself in their daughter Stella’s tiny Notting Hill studio, as she launched her very first collection. ... more

Rockshow, a film documenting Paul McCartney and his band Wings on their 1975-76 Wings Around the World tour, will have its big-screen premiere May 15 at BAFTA in London. McCartney is scheduled to appear on the red carpet for the event. The rest of the world will have to wait until the following day to catch Rockshow, which captures the rock icon and his group (which featured McCartney's late first wife, Linda) on a trek that brought ... more

The singer performed tracks such as Your Mother Should Know and Lovely Rita on the first night of his Out There tour in the city of Belo Horizonte. Many later Beatles tracks were never performed live, after the band called an end to touring in 1966. The Out There tour will include the US, Canada, Italy, Austria and Poland. Sir Paul will play three concerts in Brazil this week - before continuing to Florida in the US ... more

Last night, Saturday 4th May, Paul thrilled a sold out audience of 55,000 people in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The show at the massive Estadio Mineirao marked the opening of his all new "Out There" tour, which will travel across six countries in the coming months. The show opened with Eight Days A Week, which Paul had previously only played live once with The Beatles in 1965. The setlist included many more treats for the fans ... more

MACCA-Central is again proud to be working with Event Travel and the VIP Packages that are available on his "Out There" tour. Paul McCartney has announced his first live date of 2013, which will be part of an all new tour called ‘Out There!’. The tour will see Paul and his band travel the world throughout the year, even visiting some places they've never been before. Further announcements and dates will be added in the coming weeks ... more