Paul McCartney played a Glastonbury warm-up show at the Cheese & Grain in Frome, Somerset, on Friday 24 June 2022.
It took place the evening before McCartney’s headlining show at Glastonbury Festival’s Pyramid Stage.
? @paulmccartney Live in Frome? Tomorrow night at 5pm? OK then! ? Tickets are available now from our box office in person only. First come, first served.https://t.co/sdAU8Tdbq1 pic.twitter.com/hxVTzjIsXi
— Cheese & Grain Frome (@cheeseandgrain) June 23, 2022
McCartney’s band was Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion, harmonica), Brian Ray (vocals, guitar, bass), Rusty Anderson (vocals, guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (vocals, drums).
The Cheese & Grain gig was announced just before 5pm on Thursday 23 June, with tickets on sale for just £25 only in person at the venue box office. All tickets were sold within an hour.
SOLD OUT. Thank you Frome ? pic.twitter.com/uFZwv6rbld
— Cheese & Grain Frome (@cheeseandgrain) June 23, 2022
The setlist
- ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’
- ‘Junior’s Farm’
- ‘Letting Go’
- ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
- ‘Come On To Me’
- ‘Let Me Roll It’
- ‘Getting Better’
- ‘My Valentine’
- ‘Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five’
- ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’
- ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’
- ‘From Me To You’
- ‘Blackbird’
- ‘Fuh You’
- ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’
- ‘You Never Give Me Your Money’
- ‘She Came In Through The Bathroom Window’
- ‘Get Back’
- ‘Lady Madonna’
- ‘Let It Be’
- ‘Hey Jude’
Also on this day...
- 2014: Ringo Starr live: Artpark Amphitheater, Lewiston, New York
- 2010: Ringo Starr begins 2010 summer tour of US and Canada
- 1968: Paul McCartney sails to Santa Catalina Island, California
- 1968: George Harrison produces Jackie Lomax’s Sour Milk Sea
- 1967: Recording: All You Need Is Love
- 1966: Live: Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
- 1965: Live: Velodromo Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
- 1965: John Lennon’s A Spaniard In The Works is published
- 1964: Live: Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand
- 1963: Radio: Saturday Club
- 1962: Live: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
- 1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
- 1961: Recording: Ain’t She Sweet, Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby, Nobody’s Child
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