Used to filling stadiums with tens of 1000’s of screaming followers worldwide, Paul McCartney took to the stage of a small music venue in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday evening for a particular efficiency with an intimate, ecstatic 300-person viewers.
In an area akin to the well-known Cavern Club in Liverpool the place the Beatles started their profession, McCartney, 81, carried out a 22-song set that included hits from the group and his solo profession regardless of intense warmth.
“It was like winning the lottery without having bought a ticket,” mentioned 33-year-old civil servant Amanda Cardoso of entering into the live performance that was introduced on the final minute.
“I’d already experienced moments I thought could never be beaten, but yesterday I was able to see my greatest musical icon just a meter away from me, interacting with me at various times in a place that was transformed into the Cavern Club for an hour and forty minutes.”
McCartney introduced on social media on Tuesday morning that he could be taking part in later that very same day on the Clube do Choro to have a good time the arrival of his “Got Back” tour in Brazil, stressing that tickets could be “extremely limited”.
The choice to purchase tickets was solely launched to those that had already bought seats for his efficiency scheduled for Thursday on the Mané Garrincha stadium. Tickets priced between 200 reais ($41) and 400 reais ($82), a lot decrease than most of these for the tour, offered out in only a few minutes.
Fans who managed to purchase tickets obtained wristbands for the live performance. Upon arrival, occasion organizers sealed up followers’ cell phones and cameras to stop pictures being recorded. Anyone who didn’t comply could be faraway from the venue by safety.
McCartney’s “Got Back” tour will cross via cities of Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo, Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro over the following two weeks.
