" November 30, 2012 -- Macca Report News
Nov. 29 - Rexall Place - Edmonton, Canada - Show 2
Sound Check Set List (unconfirmed)
1. Honey Don't
2. Flaming Pie
3. Hello Goodbye
4. Penny Lane
5. Celebration
6. C Moon
7. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
8. San Francisco Bay Blues
9. Mother Nature's Son
10. Dance Tonight
11.Yesterday
12. Lady Madonna
Concert Set List
1. Hello Goodbye
2. Junior's Farm
3. All My Loving
4. Jet
5. Drive My Car
6. Sing The Changes
7. The Night Before
8. Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady
9. Paperback Writer
10. The Long And Winding Road
11. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
12. My Valentine
13. Maybe I'm Amazed
14.Things We Said Today
15. And I Love Her
16. Blackbird
17. Here Today
18. Dance Tonight
19. Mrs Vanderbilt
20. Eleanor Rigby
21. Something
22. Band On The Run
23. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
24. Back In The USSR
25. I Got A Feeling
26. Day In The Life/Give Peace A Chance
27. Let It Be
28. Live And Let Die
29. Hey Jude
Encore 1
30. Lady Madonna
31. Wonderful Christmastime
32. Day Tripper
33. Get Back
Encore 2
34.Yesterday
35. Mull Of Kintyre (with The Pipes and Drums of the Edmonton Police Service)
36. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
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November 30, 2012 -- Edmonton Journal
McCartney makes dreams come true for pipers, diehard fans
Young concert-goers offered front-row view
Piper Sgt. Mjr. Langford Bawn didn't know he was going to be performing with Paul McCartney until minutes before Wednesday's sold-out show at Rexall Place.
As a member of the Pipes and Drums of the Edmonton Police Service, Bawn and 25 of his bandmates ended up playing Mull of Kintyre - one of McCartney's Wings-era tunes - during the second encore.
"We had to be there early for the sound check and then he had a private rehearsal with us because this was supposed to be a surprise in his concert," says Bawn.
"We probably played with him for about 15 minutes, and then once the rehearsal was done, we went off to our room to get ready; then we could walk around and do what we wanted. At that point, it was up to him whether he thought the band was going to give a good performance or not and at 8 o'clock, we finally got the set list and we were on it."
Thirty minutes later, McCartney started his show, but even then, Bawn and his bandmates didn't let themselves get too excited. "Up until we got on stage, we weren't 100 per cent sure we were playing with him," says Bawn, 48.
Shortly after 11 p.m., 10 drummers and 16 pipers marched on stage with their instruments, surrounding McCartney in a sea of red tartan. Bawn says the experience was the highlight of his 27-year career with the police band.
"I've been lucky, I've piped for the Queen and Prince Philip, I've played with the ESO. Some of the guys have played with Johnny Reid, but this is the pinnacle of it," he says.
"This is just fantastic. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing that not many people get to experience."
About three weeks ago, Bawn says a local production company asked the EPS Pipes and Drums if they were interested in performing with the legend of Liverpool. (Silly question. "Everyone jumped at the opportunity," says Bawn.) After McCartney's camp signed off on the local musicians, they started learning the song and tried to keep their upcoming gig under wraps. "You want to tell somebody, so it was a little bit stressful," he says. "But we're professionals and we didn't want to blow the opportunity."
Bawn and his bandmates practised the song by watching YouTube videos of McCartney's 2010 performance with the Paris Port Dover Pipe Band in Toronto.
"I'd sit at my computer at my lunch hour and go over it, just to make sure I'd get the timing right," he says. "It's an easier tune, but the biggest thing is getting the timing right with his vocals."
Bawn, who grew up listening to The Beatles with his older sister, didn't get a chance to talk to McCartney during rehearsal, but says the former Beatle was cordial.
"It's cool being up there with him, but he's very professional, he's very methodical," he says. "He wants things done right, so he'd say to us: 'I need you to do this' or 'Can you come in earlier?' He was very friendly, but there was no kibbutzing with him. We were there to do a job."
Bawn planned to give his spot in Thursday's show to one of his bandmates. McCartney's stage has room for only 26 drummers and pipers, while the police band boasts more than 30 musicians.
"I'm going to go as a spare, just in case something happens to somebody," says Bawn. "If I get to go on again, great. If not, I'll just enjoy the concert and watch the guys play."
The EPS Pipes and Drums celebrated their 50th anniversary earlier in November. Bawn's father, Paddy, was the original drum major - from 1962 to 1998.
Meanwhile, Tyler Bourne, 21, and his friend Robyn Boyko, 19, unexpectedly found themselves in the front row for Wednesday's show. They were approached by someone who identified himself as one of McCartney's employees.
"He said, 'We're looking for some young, energetic people to sit in the front row. Are you guys interested in upgrading your seats?' " says Bourne, whose original seats were in the nosebleed section, five rows from the top on the opposite side from the stage.
"I was just in complete shock. I couldn't believe it was happening."
The pair paid $275 each for their original tickets, purchased the day they went on sale, Sept. 14. Bourne said they both hugged McCartney's rep when he showed them to their new seats. "I've never been that close to the stage for any concert," he says. "I couldn't stop shaking."
And the photograph Leana Patenaude posted on Twitter from Wednesday's concert said it all: "Dream come true!"
Her shot of the singer was taken from Row 6, Seat 23. It was part of a VIP package Patenaude happily paid $1,500 for to be part of McCartney's historic appearance in Edmonton.
"I flew to Toronto to see him in 2010, but it was like the first time all over again," said Patenaude with a sigh.
A camp attendant at Syncrude, the 33-year-old flew to Edmonton for the concert and was back in Fort McMurray by Thursday morning.
The VIP package gave her access to McCartney's sound check where, she said, the former Beatle joked and made small talk. "There was just a small group of us, so it was pretty intimate," she says, then laughs. "He called us his 'sound-checkers.'"
A Beatles fan since she got her first record album at age six - The Chipmunks Sing The Beatles - Patenaude said she started calling "the very minute" the pre-sale started. It took her 30 tries to get through and secure the coveted ducat.
"It was just amazing," she said. "I love Paul McCartney."
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