Antwerp

From The Macca Report:

Songs heard at the soundcheck: “Coming Up,” “India,” “Honey Don’t,” “What’d I Say,” “Midnight Special,” “Things We Said Today,” “All Things Must Pass,” and “Lady Madonna.”

The pre-show started at 8: 45 pm. Paul wore the purple Nehru jacket, a red long-sleeved T-shirt and blue jeans. He spoke some words in Flemish and English calling the combination “Belglish.”

He greeted the 13,500 sellout crowd with “Hallo Belgie!” (hello Belgium). At the start of the show some people ran to the front of the stage. More joined throughout the concert. Security seemed more tolerant of the fans and by the end of the show there were more than 200 fans in front of the stage.

After “All My Loving” the crowd started chanting “PAAAUL MC-CART-NEY!!!” with handclaps like on the live single “Coming Up” from Glasgow, Scotland in 1979. Paul said, “YEAH, THAT’S ME!!!” and did a little dance and clapped.

“Let Me Roll It” had the “Foxy Lady” ending.

During “Every Night” people began to clap along. After the song Paul said, “Thank you, lovely bunch of people, are you having a good time? Then he did the fake beginning to “We Can Work It Out” singing, “As I was walking down the road…” And then went into the song.

When the strongman came out with the piano Paul said “steroids” in Dutch. All the while the crowd was chanting “PAAAUL MC-CART-NEY!!!” as before. Paul did some noodling on the piano and said, “Paul Mac-Cart-Nee!” as a fake beginning to “You Never Give Me Your Money.”

Paul sang the correct words to “You Never Give Me Your Money” He did not sing, “This is the part were I don’t know the words…” Instead he sang, “Out of college, money spent, see no future, pay no rent, all the money’s gone, nowhere to go.” He sang the words with a big grin on his face noticing fans who were caught offguard expecting to hear the ‘other words.’

Rusty called the Belgium crowd “sexy” and took a photo of the audience with his digital camera.

For “Something” he said in Dutch, “George hield van de ukulele. For those ones who don’t understand belgian, my friend George loved to play the ukulele.” As at the other shows, “Something” was not finished with the ‘George style’ fast ending that was done on the previous legs. After “Something” Paul said, “Let’s not forget Ringo!” and launched into a longer version of “Yellow Submarine” with the band improvising. The audience sang along. “Give Peace A Chance” was not sung.

Paul said to the audience, “I’ve been learning some Dutch to speak to you in your own language. I know that you speak English very well, but I speak excellent Dutch!” That made the audience laugh and then Paul introduced Abe in Dutch. Paul introduced Wix in Dutch and Wix spoke English for his introduction to “She’s Leaving Home.”

For his introduction to “My Love” he said in Dutch, “Dit is voor alle verliefden in de zaal.” (This is for all the lovers in the audience) After the song he said, “Thank you very much all you lovers… verliefden.” (lovers)

He did the fake intro to “We Can Work It Out” singing “… as I was walking down the road…”

Paul forgot to sing the beginning of the second verse of “Let ‘Em In.” Rusty’s kept on singing his part which was the only voice heard for a moment. Paul jumped in to finish the verse.

People clapped at the end of “Let It Be” while Paul was heading for the psychedelic piano. He said in Dutch, “sing with us” and began “Hey Jude” with no fake intro as the night before. He sang just before the chorus “Judy, Judy don’t let me down.. Everybody in Belgium!” The crowd sang. Then he said, “Let me hear you singing! Oh yeah….all night… OK, the mannen!” (the men) and “OK…alleen de vrouwen!” (just the women) The crowd continued to sing the “nah-nah-nah’s” (like the night before) as the band left the stage.

When he was about to play “Yesterday” he said, “This is the same guitar I used on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show.'” (acoustic Epiphone with the Detroit Red Wings Hockey team sticker on it). NOTE: He got that sticker when he performed with Wings at the Detroit Olympia in Michigan, (home of the Detroit Red Wings) May 7 – 8, 1976.

He thanked his band in Dutch and also the audience. “You were a great audience. Maar nu moeten wij gaan. (But now we have to go) See you next time! Vaarwel. (Farewell) Ik bedank mijn fantastische muzikanten, maar vooral jullie.” (I thank my fantastic musicians but most of all you). Then he launched into the “Sgt. Pepper Reprise/The End.”

At the end of the concert the audience started singing “WE LOVE YOU YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! WE LOVE YOU YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!” Paul was pleased and thanked the audience. He said, “Thank you very much to all the people in Antwerp and Belgium. We love ya! See you next time!” and gave the thumbs up to fans in the front rows.

Mobile text messages on the video screens: “Hi Paul, sitting right in front of you,” “It’s my birthday present to be here,” “Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag Jan” (Congratulations on your birthday, Jan), “ROCK IT,” “Love you Paul.”

Sportpaleis Antwerp

This was the 2nd concert played at Sportpaleis Antwerp.

A total of 2 concerts have been played there • 2003 • Apr 1 • Apr 2

Setlist for the soundcheck

1. Coming Up

   Written by Paul McCartney

2. India

   Written by Paul McCartney

3. Honey Don't

   Written by Carl Perkins

4. What'd I Say

   Written by Ray Charles

5. Midnight Special (Prisoner's Song)

   Written by Traditional

6. Things We Said Today

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

7. All Things Must Pass

   Written by George Harrison

8. Lady Madonna

   Written by Lennon - McCartney

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