" He's praying for the peaceful death of this thread. "
" June 12, 2010 -- Macca Report News
Report and photos by Bob Gannon (Macca Reporter)
Paul rocks the RDS stadium in Dublin
Set List for Dublin Show
1. Venus And Mars / Rock Show
2. Jet
3. All My Loving
4. Letting Go
5. Got To Get You Into My Life
6. Highway
7. Let Me Roll It / Foxy Lady
8. The Long And Winding Road
9. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
10. Let 'Em In
11. My Love
12. I'm Looking Through You (false start with Paul playing "Two Of Us")
13. Two Of Us
14. Blackbird
15. Here Today
16. Dance Tonight
17. Mrs. Vandebilt (The crowd sang "Happy Birthday" and "Jolly Good Fellow")
18. Eleanor Rigby
19. Something
20. Sing The Changes
21. Band On The Run
22. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
23. Back In The USSR
24. I've Got A Feeling with extended jam
25. Paperback Writer
26. A Day In The Life / Give Peace A Chance
27. Let It Be
28. Live And Let Die
29. Hey Jude (magic psychedelic piano)
First Encore
30.Day Tripper
31.Lady Madonna
32.Get Back
Second Encore
33.Yesterday
34.Helter Skelter
35.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise / The End
About the Dublin show
Just got back to my hotel room after getting lost in traffic anyhow. The show was completely awesome, Paul and band were hot and the Dublin crowd was even hotter. I couldn't hear their name (The Coronas), but an Irish band went on first. They were actually quite good, I enjoyed them and apparently they were about to put out their third album.
Just prior to Paul starting, a fellow walked in front of me and wouldn't you know it, it was Woody Harrelson. I said hi Woody and he turned, smiled and said hi back while waving. James McCartney (Paul's son) was also spotted in the audience.
Paul and band took the stage a little after 8 pm wearing the black suit with a maroon collar and cuffs. The Irish were in good voice and you could tell that Paul and band were enjoying the show.
Paul also had a false start as he began to play "Two of us" while the rest of the band was playing "I'm Looking Through You". Paul caught himself, laughed and told everyone it was his fault.
After Mrs. Vandebilt the crowd showered Paul with singing "Happy Birthday" which went on for a bit. Paul looked on, smiling and then the crowd started singing "for he's a jolly good fellow" which Paul joined in singing... "because I'm a jolly good fellow." Rusty and Abe who had moved into position for Eleanor Rigby were laughing and enjoying every bit of it.
Also earlier in the show Paul talked about his recent shows in Mexico and how the crowd held up lighters and flicked the flame on and off to the beat of the song they were playing.
After playing "Something", Paul turned to the screen with his back to the audience and looked at a large picture of George Harrison and waved to to the picture.
After that he went back to the microphone and told the story about people flashing signs and how his mind says don't read it, but that it says something that draws your attention. Then he said "like that guy over there" and pointed stage right. He said that guy over there has a sign that says "I'm going to bang this chick I'm with after the show!" Paul said "I'm hoping that's his wife but either way it's not fair holding something like that up".
Paul had two very visible missteps during the show. One early on and a second as he prepared to do the leg kick during "Band On The Run". He messed up his first attempt, but not to be discouraged, Paul did an awkward looking second kick, which was successful.
After "Blackbird" he was talking about why he wrote it and also playing at the White House last week. He talked about how far we've come and that America now has a black president. Paul spoke in Gaelic several times to the crowd's delight and when speaking about playing The White House, he said that he figured that the perfect gig after that would be Dublin of course.
At the end of "Paperback Writer", Rusty turned his guitar around and the back of his guitar had white lettering saying "Thanx".
After "Live and Let Die" the crew loaded out the magic piano (psychedelic) onto the stage and I thought we were going to get a little surprise but he did "Hey Jude".
First bow was just a normal bow. After the first encore it was a bow with a shuffle and after the second encore, it was a band bow with only Paul doing the guerilla walk. Someone threw a teddy bear on stage which he picked up and said his goodbyes holding it.
Other things of note, after Hey Jude" and the first bow, the crowd started singing "Hey Jude" before Paul left the stage and continued to do so until Paul came back on stage to a loud roar. "
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