Macca is playing the BBC Proms in london in Camden at the Roundhouse on the 25th of Ocotober this month coming!

I know that me and The End on here have tickets to go!! so we should be able to meet up!!

a few others mates of mine are going and I am going up with them and we are camping over night to get front row! we managed to get hold of tickets so I can't wait! its gunna be great!! yeahhh!! wooo!

anyone else get tickets?

Wow, that is gonna be soooo amazing! I'm jealous! Hehe  

i tried frantically to get tickets for this.It was impossible on the phone and website, both crashed as the roundhouse ridiculously tried to sell tickets for every gig in this series at the same time on the same day.

London is my home town so im determined to be there,even if i have to appall myself my taking the bastard tout route. the chance of seeing him in such a small venue is too good to miss, so im hoping that one way or another i will be there. how did you get your tickets?

Sorry for 'random' first post... Maccalennon did you have any luck in finding tickets to go see Sir Paul? I saw on newmusicexperience.com (BBC's) that David Arnold is playing at the roundhouse too. By the way can any of you spot Macca in that e-poster!?

Ah, it would be telling , the BBC Proms made some bad mistakes and we managed to get hold of some tickets! we were very lucky indeed!

I shall tell you now MaccaLennon, they said that on the day they might be giving out a bunch of tickets on the door so i hear, so if this is the case, you might want to come down on the day as you live so close and try your best to get in! theres always that chance, I showed up at the door for Pauls camden gig,  but wasn't lucky enough to get in, this time I have been!

keep trying! !

why the secrecy? im not asking you to get me a ticket or anything. I just wanted to know if you went up theres personally, managed somehow to get through on the phone or web, know someone at the venue or if you're mary mccartney. One way or another, im going to be there

lol, i can't get tickets, they opened the ticket line a few days early by mistake, only for one evening and morning, so some friends picked up tickets for me and themselves, and then it was closed and we were still allowed them basically!

Hey McLennon you've got to pay me for your ticket yet!!

maccalennon there will be 100 tickets at 5 pounds each that you can register for about a week before the gig on the Roundhouse site, you then turn up on the day to collect!
hope you have success getting a ticket!

well theer you go, thats what you have got to do! best of luck!!

and yes miss, I shall have to stash the money away ready!

It 's only taken Macca 38 years to arrange that gig at The Roundhouse then!

I'm there!

Don't know if this is common knowledge, but just found this out:

The London tickets are all but sold, apart from 100 tickets priced at 5 quid each. If you want to be in with a shout for the £5 tickets, you need to register at the Electric Proms homepage one week before the gig.
  
Here’s the link;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/2007/artists/paulmccartney/

I now am going via the extortion that is the tout route, but im not complaining. Im delighted to be going but it really pisses me off that touts buy up these tickets and real fans have to pay through the nose to go and see him.

Quoted from maccalennon

I now am going via the extortion that is the tout route, but im not complaining. Im delighted to be going but it really pisses me off that touts buy up these tickets and real fans have to pay through the nose to go and see him.

Well, it's not like it's a new thing. It's very difficult to do over here, as tickets have your name printed on, and are scanned on entry.

Btw, Tony, I still can't get into Beatle Boards.

no its not new but i just think that since the arrival of the internet and ebay, it has become more difficult to get tickets for these gigs as ordinary people just see it as a business opportunity whereas before we were just completeing with a few ticket touts.

I didnt know you were having trouble  with beatleboards. whats happening?

Quoted from maccalennon

no its not new but i just think that since the arrival of the internet and ebay, it has become more difficult to get tickets for these gigs as ordinary people just see it as a business opportunity whereas before we were just completeing with a few ticket touts.

I didnt know you were having trouble  with beatleboards. whats happening?

I sent you a couple of PM's from this site. I can't log in. Keeps telling me I've specified the wrong user name or password. Even though I know what my user name and password are I thought I'd ask for a new one. But then it doesn't recognise my user name or e-mail address!

had a look and for some reason you were switched to inactive. ive changed you back to actice so hopefully it will work ok now. no idea how that happened.

Cheers Tony. Working now.

Macca's performnace will be shown on BBC2 next Thursday
at 11.20pm!!!  

yeah its highlights only though. you can hear it all on radio 2 though

It's going to be live then? cool, i will have to shout out something for you all!  

anyone thats going got any plans yet about when youre picking up the wristband and getting in the queue to get in

They hand out the wristbands at 9am thursday morning, so we have booked train tickets to london this wedneday night and will have someone scouting the roundhouse the night before, and we will go back to a mates house, then go down there when needed! we plan to queue during the day thursday, although they said they probably won't allow it, we will soon see about that!

Sounds like the touts have come unstuck seeing as they're only issuing wristbands with the credit card! Hee hee!!!

It was an amazing show! i will write an account at some stage, but for now i am too tired, but loved every second of it yesterday! or 2 days ago now! :O

set list
Magical Mystery Tour
Flaming Pie
Got To Get You Into My Life
Dance Tonight
Only Mama Knows
C'Moon
The Long And Winding Road
Follow The Sun
That Was Me
Here Today
Blackbird
Calico Skies
Eleanor Rigby
Band On The Run
USSR
House Of Wax
I Got A Feeling
Live And Let Die
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Lady Madonna
I Saw Her Standing There
Get Back

What happened on stage minute by minute

19.59 - At 7pm the queue stretched halfway to Belsize Park. Five minutes to go and already the packed crowd are going wild.
20.05 - And straight into 'Magical Mystery Tour'. This is one man who doesn't need to worry about wasting his hits early in the set!
20.07 - Paul's looking damn sharp in a skinny mod suit.
20.09 - It's 'a long time' since he's been in the Roundhouse...
20.12 - He's got his mandolin out. Must be time for 'Dance Tonight'.
20.15 - The jacket comes off. Some ladies down the front seem a bit over excited!
20.16 - 'Only Mama Knows' is complemented by a string octet.
20.18 - First Wings song of the night and it's the early b side 'C'Moon'.
20.24 - Sticking at the piano for 'The long And Winding Road'. It's the first big singalong of the night.
20.29 - There are a lot of glowsticks in the audience tonight. Anyone would think we were at a Klaxons gig.
20.36 - Macca pays tribute to John with 'Here Today' and gets the biggest cheer of the night so far.
20.42 - The strings return for 'Calico Skies'.
20.43 - Paul asks for an audience wave, and he gets one.
20.48 - 'Eleanor Rigby' now and Paul's drummer is up and dad-dancing at the back.
20.51 - The Wings songs are going down as well as The Beatles ones. Band On The Run now and two headbangers down the front are loving it.
20.55 - Signs in the crowd show people have travelled from as far afield as Canada and Japan for this gig.
21.04 - Macca's band take over Lennon's vocals on 'I Got A Feeling'.
21.06 - Macca's spotted an X-Factor contestant in the audience...
21.08 - 'Live and Let Die' comes complete with pyrotechnics.
21.09 - Paul's thumping those keys Jerry Lee Lewis style.
21.11 - An impromptu baby face turns into the ultimate singalong, 'Hey Jude'.
21.15 - 'Na na na, na na na na, na na na na Hey Juuuuuude'.
21.17 - The balcony is finally on its feet.
21.21 - He's off but not for long...Back to the piano for 'Let It Be'.
21.22 - The smoking ban hasn't stopped an age-old tradition. Lighters in the air.
21.27 - The bass is back on for 'I Saw Her Standing There'. That voice doesn't seem to have aged. Close your eyes and you could almost be in The Cavern
21.31 - What a gig! You can tell this audience will be talking about it for years to come.
21.33 - Hang on, he's back!
21.38 - Macca plays 'Get Back' and then he's gone...but you get the feeling he could have gone on for a few more hours at least.

Quoted from McLennon

20.09 - It's 'a long time' since he's been in the Roundhouse...

I can't imagine he's ever been there. Certainly not to perform. It was closed for most of the 80's and 90's.

Sounds like a good show Matt. Did you tape it, or just stand there taking notes?

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I can't imagine he's ever been there. Certainly not to perform. It was closed for most of the 80's and 90's.

Sounds like a good show Matt. Did you tape it, or just stand there taking notes?

haha I can just imagine someone there with a clipboard and a pen!

That's excellent thanks McLennon! I'm so jealous- I watched the uncut showing of it on Freeview channel 302- FANTASTIC, he has really proven that he still has it in him to pull off an amazing show  

I liked the concert but his voice seemed too
loose it a bit. I thought the ICA gig was so hot & his voice was perfect but he
seemed to rush this gig quite a bit i thought. very good performance
of Dance Tonight i must admit though, & the orchestra was good when he
sang Eleanor Rigby & Only Mama Knows!
He looked great though as always even though he looked a bit like Bryan Ferry
in that suit!  

o i didn't do that minute by minute thing, that was the roundhouse people, i just copied it in here!

I took some mini vids, not good at all though!

really was fantastic, still can't beleive I was there, nearly front row! :O

Quoted from McLennon

really was fantastic, still can't beleive I was there, nearly front row! :O

Lucky You!

had to queue for 19 hours though, only three of us spent the whole night on the street outside the place in cold cold weather! we still didn't end up at the front cause they gave numbers to people to come back the next day, but worth the queueing! met some great people! didn't see our very own "the end" though!

Heres a link to my review of the whole day and some vids from my mobile (poor quality but you really the atmosphere) and also links further down the thread to the BBC highlights show for those of you outsideof the uk

http://beatleboards.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1658

Nice account!!

by the pictures you posted further down, it looks like you were a few lines behind where i was stood! you must have been quite a way back in the queue by 1pm?!

and i really think its funny how the rumour has spread round all these forums about japanese people coming the night before and getting turned away! i know the guys who are japense that people are probably talking about and i pretty much beleive they did not come from japan! also, it was a huge group of 74 people it must have been, that showed up during the day on wednesday and got given ticket numbers to avoid them queueing, which is why the "japanese" guy was first in queue! As i've said, only three of us queued over night and didn't get turned away, as there was no one there to give us numbers!   but at 6am we got given the final numbers and then joined the people at 9 when they came back! just found it funny how on the macca board and other places people got the impression that people travelled from japan and others were getting turned away, neither of which are true i beleive!

o and i see you said about seeing macca arrvie for the gig, some americans around us said that they saw him go in, he didn't wave to anyone apprently!  

and yes, we were stood with a lovly lady named valerie who was an orginal apple scruff who used to vanderlise pauls home and stuff! haha she was great!

some people on the official macca site (i'm not a member, but i checked it out for this), were talking of two men in suits wearing white gloves and talking of how it was tradition to do so, they were also with us all day in queue, u may have seen them bouncing back and forth at the front, on the show! they were so funny, kept us entertained during the show, they just wanted to look stylish for the proms and went to the one the night before, i don't think it was down to any tradition....

haha, oo i read that on the macca site too about you making that comment about the guy saying f*cking mcCartney! what a great comment back!

another funny thing is, the two guys in suits convinced the roundhouse people to allow the first wave of fans to end with us! so we were first in! classic!

what a great report u gave! shame i didn't meet up with you there, you sound so enthuastic, we would get on well i think!
£200 for a ticket! dedication that is! I wouldn't even pay £90 for one at an earlier camden gig! but lucky i didn't, someone else did and it was a poor photocopied one, she got refused streight away!

heres my report, it might not all make sense as i talk of lucy and corinne alot, they are the people i went with! enjoy!

Well first off, i was nearly late of course heading down to the train station to meet Corinne (OBC), and we caught the train to London, getting all the more excited on the way there. We met Lucy at the station with big greetings and headed from there back to Lucy’s place to collect the gear for the long night ahead. We had a laugh there, with Lucy and Corinne bullying me all the time as i sat and watched them force things in a bag. Haha,
Lucy’s husband was already at the roundhouse checking out the place to see what was happening, if anyone had already arrived to start queuing. We decided at about 11:30 or so to head down there and check it out and start our camp. We walked past the electric ballroom where Paul done his last Camden gig where I last met Luce. When we got to the roundhouse the last show where Sean Lennon had played were coming out, so we sat down on a wall there and kept a watch in case Sean appeared and we could snap a pic. But it started to die down eventually. However some people were still there and kept looking at us, so we thought they might have been fans as well waiting.
In the end they came over to us and were American and told us not to bother queuing as they had been given tickets during the day so they didn’t have to queue over night and would be able to come back first thing in the morning and have their place secure. We weren’t too happy with them really, and didn’t want to just leave and take their word for anything. So they cleared off after a funny guy from Newcastle came over and started telling us rude jokes and was quite funny in the end, was drunk and entertained us.
So from this point on, it was just me, Lucy and Corinne on the street for the next five hours, although at different times we had people walk past and ask what we were doing with reply’s such as “Good Luck”. Also having a man with blood down his face running over wanting money for “help”, as if we were going to. After a very cold night, which i complained about throughout just to annoy the other two! Haha, none of us got any sleep really, maybe drifting for a matter of minutes but nothing more. We chatted throughout the night and kept a watch on things going on around, by 5am a taxi pulled up and a lady came out who had come from Poland called Kate. She has met Paul and had many a good Paul experience herself in the past, so she camped with us and stayed with us through the rest of our stay in London. At 6am a sercurirty guy for the first time came out and gave the 4 of us the final numbers handed out, being 74-78. At about what 7 maybe, all the people who had collected their numbers from the previous day came back ready to collect their wristbands at 9am. We also met up again with people who Lucy had met at the Camden gig before, and we moved from our wall over to the doors ready.
When the people forming us into lines got there, we got forced back to about 40 people down the line, as some of the people with numbers didn’t show. By this time, many had formed behind us. We had to wait quite a long time to collect our wristbands, as they served one person at a time. But during this time we met up with another lady called Valerie After collecting our wristbands, we quickly joined the queue set up with barriers, and prepared for the long wait ahead in the cold and slightly wet weather. We chatted with two guys one of who was called Adam, both dressed in suits, with bow ties and white gloves, which was so funny, they had been to the show the night before and were seen on TV quite alot for those who watched, bouncing back and forth at the front. While waiting in queue a few news crew people showed up and photographers, taken pictures and filming the crowd from so many angles. Also some school kids learning about interviews and using the camera equipment asking weird beatle questions like “What is your view on Paul not wearing shoes on the Abbey Road front cover?.”
The day seemed to go by slowly as we were so excited about Macca, and just wanted the hours to pass. At one point Lucy told us that Wicks went past to go inside, I didn’t notice as he was wearing a hood, trying not to draw attention to himself and not be seen. Some people had gone round back and said that Macca had gone in but not given a wave to them, also Corinne went round back with a woman who was an original apple scruff and she watched as the woman managed to convince the guy to let her into the carpark and she could have walked straight on in. The hours kept passing by as it got dark and the queue went all the way round the corner and up the hill as more fans arrived. At one stage I got a text from someone i had met at the Paul signing and went round the corner to meet her in queue and had a chat which was nice. In the afternoon, probably around 3pm, Ell who we met at the signing also showed up with her boyfriend, so said hello to her again as she joined the queue. At one stage Lucy also going off to the pub (no surprise) lol, only joking.
We all moved forward in the queue when it came within an hour of going in, the two guys in suits behind convinced the lady directing people when going in to make the first wave end with them, so we would all go straight in. As we went in everyone started to dash for the stairs before they were all stopped and told to move back 2 steps. After about 10 minutes of this, they let people throw slowly before everyone at the top of the steps ran for the front. Lucy got to the barrier, and me and Corinne were on the other side about third row with a good view still. Luckily away from certain people we didn’t want to be around. A funny guy behind us who did turn out to be cool in the end was chatting to us during the gig and had a laugh with Corinne.

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Right well, i shall say the show from my point of view of it,
When Paul went into Magical Mystery Tour i was quite shocked as i expected Jet or one of the normal ones he opened the other gigs with, so it was pleasing to hear, a nice opener from Paul, got me excited of course.
Even before Paul came on the crowd were forcing us all forward and i had to lean back into people pushing with my feet to stop being crushed into the front row, it was annoying but when Paul came on i forgot all about it.
Flaming Pie isn’t one of my favourites, but i was happy to hear anything of Paul’s live, haha
Got to Get You Into My Life, well this was amazing, great feeling for this song, apparently Paul got the lyrics wrong and made a funny face which Corinne and Lucy pointed out to me on the TV after.
As soon as Paul picked up his mandolin, obviously everyone knew dance tonight was coming, which was just great to hear. Paul sure can whistle well live.
Only Mama knows was grand, hearing one of his new album again, very good rocker live.
As he walked over to the piano for his first piano song he started playing C Moon and i filmed the very start, wondered what he would do. I do love this song, a good wings number.

He followed this with The Long And Winding Road, well, i just couldn’t sing, i had to listen throughout this one, i couldn’t believe i was hearing it live in front of me, although i only saw the top of Pauls noggin at the piano.
I filmed a long intro before I’ll Follow The Sun, when Paul told his typical story of how he reads signs in the audience and so finds it hard to remember his chords and lyrics while reading things like “My mum saw you at Shea Stadium”. Haha, it was good to hear him telling it none the less. Of course he repeated the end part of the song which is always good.
Another good one I didn’t expect was That Was Me of his new album, as much as i couldn’t remembered the lyrics, it was a really good one for him to play, went in well.
When he got ready to play here today and said he wrote it for his dear friend John and all, i think everyone was just in anticipation for the song. When he sang “I love you” man it was hard hitting, Corinne got emotional during it which was sweet . I don’t think many sung along during it, just wanted to take it in.
When he started playing Blackbird i was so happy, i love the song and it was one of the ones i was waiting for, a highlight of the evening for me, I’m glad he played it, couldn’t have gone without it.
Although, when he strummed the first chord of calico skies to check it was in tune, i grabbed my camera phone straight away, my favourite song of all time, i was not about to miss it, the string orchestra behind also joined in for this one as they did for Only Mama Knows as well. Simply speechless i was.
Following this was Eleanor Rigby, again with the string orchestra or whatever they were, which was really good, it’s great when you can tell what songs he is about to play, when he started the guitar for Eleanor Rigby by counting in basically, i just knew what was coming.
Band On the run was another of the songs i didn’t expect to be played, i must say, i preferred hearing it to Jet. Band on the run had that feeling behind it, with everyone singing along word for word.
Of course the plane at the start of Back In The USSR led everyone straight into the song, i also think Macca looked at me and smiled when i was singing along in this one, it sure looked like he did.