I’m back from the Paul McCartney concert!  Time for the recap:

Let me go back a few weeks to explain this.  About a month ago I
found out that Paul McCartney would be doing some type of live
performance in NYC to promote his new album Memory Almost Full.  Any
large-scale world tour would be postponed to next year due to "personal
issues" (his divorce from Heather Mills).  So being a huge Beatles/Paul
McCartney fan, I did some intense research until I found out the
details of what would be going down.

I found out that the show was going to be a small-scale "secret"
show about two weeks ago and that I’d have to win tickets through a
radio station contest in order to go.  Only a few hundred contest
winners and invited guests would be given tickets.  So after looking
through the websites of nearly every FM radio station from the
country’s major cities, I finally found a contest where you could enter
a raffle to win tickets by correctly answering 20 questions about
Paul.  I didn’t win.  But my friend Steph did, and she offered to take
me.  Amazingly, my friend Bret won as well and offered to take my
brother Justin.  So now we had 3 people from CT’s smallest town attending a concert that thousands of people from around the world were trying to go to, and I was one of them.

More below the cut.

Tonight I’ll get the incredible opportunity to see Paul McCartney in concert from just a few feet away.  Along with two of my friends and brother Justin, I’ll be among just 300 contest winners and invited guests who will watch McCartney play Beatles classics as well as some of the best songs of his new album Memory Almost Full.  The show takes place at 8:30 pm tonight at the Highline Ballroom on 16th St. in NYC.  It’s extremely rare for a guy who usually performs in front of 50,000 people to do a show in a venue this small.  What makes tonight even more interesting is that his album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 this morning with his highest weekly sales since 1982.  I’ll post a recap after the show.

Thanks for MaccaReport.com for the heads up on the secret gig!

Above: McCartney plays air drums and sings along to one of his new songs called "Only Mamma Knows".

"I actually began with the work on this new album, "Memory Almost Full",
before my last album "Chaos and Creation in The Backyard" (released in
September 2005). The first recordings took place in the autumn of 2003
at Abbey Road with my band and David Kahne as producer. I was already
in the middle of it, when I began to talk with Nigel Godrich about a
completely new project – this became then "Chaos and Creation in the
Backyard". When I was finished with all work to "chaos" and had
received a Grammy nomination (2006) for it, I noticed that there was
still this other album, which I wanted to absolutely finish.

Paul McCartney‘s new album Memory Almost Full comes out June 5th.  I just heard the first single – "Ever Present Past".  Very upbeat, light, melodic, catchy song.  It fits more under the pop label than it does rock, but I absolutely love it.  Seems to be a Heather Mills reference in the lyrics.  He just shot a promo music video for the song Dance Tonight with Natalie Portman.  You can view the making of that video HERE.  And here’s another video of him welcoming you to his new website Meyesight.com

I strongly dislike the album cover.  Click here to listen to the single Ever Present Past.

New album means new tour.  And you know I’ll be there.