Paul McCartney performed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 28 March 2026.
It was the second of two consecutive nights at the venue, in the week that McCartney’s 19th solo album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane was announced. Standard tickets for the 1,200-capacity venue cost $230, with a VIP soundcheck package costing $1,600, and were allocated via a lottery system.
Celebrities in attendance included Ringo Starr, Stella and Mary McCartney, Elton John, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Margot Robbie, Steven Tyler, Sharon Osbourne, Anthony Keidis, Reneé Rapp, Billie Eilish, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Laura Dern, Beck, Chad Smith, Haim, Seal, Jason Bateman, John Mayer, Dakota Johnson, Stevie Nicks, Steve Carrell, Janelle Monáe, Larry David, and Jimmy Kimmel.
Most people will play to a large audience, as I do, too, but mainly people want to record it on their phones, so you’re looking at a load of phones out there. When you do something like the Fonda gig, there’s no phones. We have the Yonder pouches, and it’s completely different. It’s a real buzz. It takes you back to your origins. You always used to be able to see the people up close, and you used to be able to interact with them. It definitely lifts the buzz of the concert.We all feel it in the band. The audience feels it. Anyone that we talk to after it – we often have a lot of guests – will just say, ‘Well, it’s incredible! It’s just completely different!’ They’re actually listening to you. They’re listening to the music. They’re reacting instead of recording. It’s definitely more of a thrill to do it that way.
Mojo, July 2026
McCartney’s band was Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion, harmonica), Brian Ray (vocals, guitar, bass), Rusty Anderson (vocals, guitar), Abe Laboriel Jr (vocals, drums), Kenji Fenton (saxophone), Mike Davis (trumpet), and Paul Burton (trombone).
Concert setlist
- ‘Help!’
- ‘Coming Up’
- ‘Got To Get You Into My Life’
- ‘Let Me Roll It’
- ‘Getting Better’
- ‘Let ’Em In’
- ‘My Valentine’
- ‘Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five’
- ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’
- ‘I’ve Just Seen A Face’
- ‘Every Night’
- ‘From Me To You’
- ‘Blackbird’
- ‘Now And Then’
- ‘Lady Madonna’
- ‘Something’
- ‘Band On The Run’
- ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’
- ‘Get Back’
- ‘Let It Be’
- ‘Hey Jude’