Freshen Up (tour)

Freshen Up was a concert tour by English musician Paul McCartney that commenced on 17 September 2018 with a four-concert leg in Canada.[1] The tour was McCartney's first tour after the release of his album, Egypt Station. Prior to the announcement of the tour, McCartney revealed he would headline the 17th Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park, in October 2018.[2] In November 2019, the tour was extended into the following year, to include McCartney's first concerts in Italy since his Out There tour.[3] A headlining appearance at the 2020 Glastonbury Festival was to be the final concert of the tour; however, it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[4] which later led to the cancelation of all the concerts scheduled for 2020.[5]

Freshen Up

Tour by Paul McCartney
Associated album	Egypt Station
Start date	17 September 2018
End date	13 July 2019
Legs	6
No. of shows	39
Paul McCartney concert chronology

Tour band

Rusty Anderson (Backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar)	Paul McCartney (Lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar, ukulele, mandolin)			Brian Ray (Backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass)
Paul Wickens (Backing vocals, keyboards, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bongos, percussion, harmonica, accordion)				Abe Laboriel, Jr. (Backing vocals, drums, percussion)

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
North America[6]
17 September 2018	Quebec City	Canada	Videotron Centre	14,935 / 14,935	$2,260,730
20 September 2018	Montreal		Bell Centre	16,135 / 16,135	$2,403,773
28 September 2018	Winnipeg		Bell MTS Place	12,610 / 12,610	$1,881,926
30 September 2018	Edmonton		Rogers Place	15,310 / 15,310	$2,531,810
5 October 2018[lower-alpha 1]	Austin	United States	Zilker Park	N/A	N/A
12 October 2018[lower-alpha 1]
Asia
31 October 2018	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome	—	—
1 November 2018
5 November 2018			Ryōgoku Kokugikan	—	—
8 November 2018	Nagoya		Nagoya Dome	—	—
Europe[8][9]
28 November 2018	Paris	France	Paris La Défense Arena	36,663 / 36,663	$3,851,577
30 November 2018	Copenhagen	Denmark	Royal Arena	15,143 / 15,143	$3,275,200
3 December 2018	Kraków	Poland	Tauron Arena Kraków	17,497 / 17,497	$1,948,007
5 December 2018	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle	21,134 / 21,134	$3,643,559
6 December 2018
12 December 2018	Liverpool	England	Echo Arena Liverpool	9,032 / 9,032	$1,382,519
14 December 2018	Glasgow	Scotland	SSE Hydro	10,737 / 10,737	$1,501,001
16 December 2018	London	England	The O2 Arena	15,651 / 15,651	$2,110,660
South America[10]
20 March 2019	Santiago	Chile	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos	49,900 / 49,900	$4,214,200
23 March 2019	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Campo Argentino de Polo	61,940 / 61,940	$5,404,680
26 March 2019	São Paulo	Brazil	Allianz Parque	90,384 / 90,384	$8,733,620
27 March 2019
30 March 2019	Curitiba		Estádio Couto Pereira	41,609 / 41,609	$3,650,750
North America[11]
23 May 2019	New Orleans	United States	Smoothie King Center	14,789 / 14,789	$2,449,710
27 May 2019	Raleigh		PNC Arena	14,805 / 14,805	$2,719,928
30 May 2019	Greenville		Bon Secours Wellness Arena	12,123 / 12,123	$2,351,190
1 June 2019	Lexington		Rupp Arena	19,153 / 19,153	$2,785,200
3 June 2019	Fort Wayne		Allen County War Memorial Coliseum	10,695 / 10,695	$1,779,313
6 June 2019	Madison		Kohl Center	12,710 / 12,710	$2,130,572
8 June 2019	Green Bay		Lambeau Field	49,416 / 49,416	$6,529,928
11 June 2019	Moline		TaxSlayer Center	10,613 / 10,613	$1,943,909
14 June 2019	Arlington		Globe Life Park	45,024 / 45,024	$6,313,791
22 June 2019	San Diego		Petco Park	40,224 / 40,224	$6,017,239
26 June 2019	Phoenix		Talking Stick Resort Arena	13,837 / 13,837	$2,717,939
28 June 2019	Las Vegas		T-Mobile Arena	29,822 / 29,822	$7,202,945
29 June 2019
6 July 2019	Vancouver	Canada	BC Place	40,973 / 40,973	$4,601,154
10 July 2019	San Jose	United States	SAP Center	13,937 / 13,937	$3,241,678
13 July 2019	Los Angeles		Dodger Stadium	48,767 / 48,767	$6,410,157
Total				805,868 / 805,868 (100%)	$107,988,665

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation

Date	City	Country	Venue	Reason
23 May 2020	Lille	France	Stade Pierre-Mauroy	COVID-19 pandemic[4][5]
26 May 2020	Paris		Paris La Défense Arena
29 May 2020	Nijmegen	Netherlands	Goffertpark
31 May 2020	Bordeaux	France	Matmut Atlantique
4 June 2020	Hannover	Germany	HDI Arena
7 June 2020	Lyon	France	Groupama Stadium
10 June 2020	Naples	Italy	Piazza del Plebiscito
13 June 2020[lower-alpha 2]	Lucca		Mura Storiche
17 June 2020	Barcelona	Spain	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
21 June 2020[lower-alpha 3]	Werchter	Belgium	Werchter Festival Grounds
27 June 2020[lower-alpha 4]	Pilton	England	Worthy Farm

Setlist

Typical set list

1. "A Hard Day's Night"
2. "Hi, Hi, Hi" or "Junior's Farm" or "Save Us"
3. "Can't Buy Me Love" or "All My Loving"
4. "Letting Go"
5. "Who Cares"
6. "Got to Get You Into My Life" (since Tokyo)
7. "Come On To Me"
8. "Let Me Roll It" (with "Foxy Lady" coda)
9. "I've Got a Feeling"
10. "Let 'Em In"
11. "My Valentine"
12. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"
13. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
14. "I've Just Seen a Face" or "We Can Work It Out"
15. "In Spite of All the Danger"
16. "From Me To You"
17. "Dance Tonight" (since Copenhagen)
18. "Love Me Do"
19. "Blackbird"
20. "Here Today"
21. "Queenie Eye"
22. "Lady Madonna"
23. "Eleanor Rigby"
24. "Fuh You"
25. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
26. "Something"
27. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
28. "Band on the Run"
29. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
30. "Let It Be"
31. "Live and Let Die"
32. "Hey Jude"
    • Encore
33. "Yesterday" or "Birthday" or "I Saw Her Standing There"
34. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
35. "Helter Skelter"
36. "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End"

Set lists

Austin City Limits Music Festival 1 (October 2018)

1. "A Hard Day's Night"
2. "Hi, Hi, Hi"
3. "Can't Buy Me Love"
4. "Letting Go"
5. "Come On To Me"
6. "Let Me Roll It"
7. "I've Got a Feeling"
8. "My Valentine"
9. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"
10. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
11. "I've Just Seen a Face"
12. "In Spite Of All The Danger"
13. "From Me To You"
14. "Love Me Do"
15. "Blackbird"
16. "Here Today"
17. "Lady Madonna"
18. "FourFiveSeconds"
19. "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite"
20. "Something"
21. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
22. "Band on the Run"
23. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
24. "Let It Be"
25. "Live and Let Die"
26. "Hey Jude"
    • Encore:
27. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
28. "Helter Skelter"
29. "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End"

See also

• List of Paul McCartney concert tours

Notes

1. The concerts on 5 October 2018 and 12 October 2018 in Austin were part of the Austin City Limits Music Festival.[7]
2. The concert on 13 June 2020 in Lucca was due to be part of the Lucca Summer Festival.
3. The concert on 21 June 2020 in Werchter was due to be part of TW Classic Festival.
4. The concert on 27 June 2020 in Pilton was due to be part of the Glastonbury Festival.

References

1. Kreps, Daniel (4 July 2018). "Paul McCartney Announces Freshen Up Tour". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
2. Flook, Harriet (14 July 2018). "Paul McCartney to Headline Austin City Limits Music Festival". paulmccartney.com. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
3. PaulMcCartney.com 19.11.19
4. Zemler, Emily (18 March 2020). "Glastonbury Festival 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
5. "Freshen Up European Summer Tour Cancelled". Paul McCartney Official Website. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
6. "Current Boxscore | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
7. "Paul to Headline Austin City Limits Music Festival". Paul Mccartney. 1 May 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
8. "Current Boxscore | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
9. https://twitter.com/touringdata/status/1164706222139957248
10. "South American 2019 dates announced". Paul Mccartney. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
11. "Las Vegas Date Added to #FreshenUpTour". Paul Mccartney. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2019.