Sunday, November 17, 2024
Corona Capital Festival
Concert • By Paul McCartney
Last updated on March 1, 2025
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Concert • By Paul McCartney
Last updated on March 1, 2025
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Paul McCartney visited Mexico for two dates in November 2023. One year later, he returned for four performances in the country as part of his 2024 “Got Back” tour. After a date in Monterrey and two dates in Mexico City, he headlined the last day of the Corona Capital festival.
Given the festival setting, the setlist was abbreviated compared to the usual tour setlist. St. Vincent, who had collaborated with Paul on the 2021 album “McCartney III Imagined,” appeared as a guest for “Get Back” and “The End.” Jack White also made a guest appearance on “The End.”
This concert marked the conclusion of the South and Central American legs of the 2024 “Got Back” tour. The tour resumed after a two-week pause, on December 4, in Paris, France.
From Wikipedia:
Corona Capital is an annual music festival held in Mexico City, taking place in the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. It debuted in 2010 and is organized by Grupo CIE. It primarily features rock and alternative music.
The festival has managed to establish itself as one of the largest and most in-demand music events in Latin America, and its considered to be Mexico’s equivalent to festivals such as Coachella and Lollapalooza having headliners such as Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses, Portishead and Pixies. In 2018, the festival expanded to the state of Jalisco during springtime with a completely different lineup billed as Corona Capital Guadalajara.
Despite the festival’s commercial and media success, it has also been the subject of much criticism and controversy after banning all local and Spanish-speaking performers in its lineup since 2013. According to its organizers, the decision to focus only in English-speaking talent was made as a “solely commercial movement” being also organizers of other festivals such as Vive Latino and Electric Daisy Carnival where they can support their local performers, resulting in Corona Capital being the only music festival in the world that hosts only foreigner talent from outside the hosting country. […]
From stereogum.com, June 20, 2024:
The Corona Capital festival will return to Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City this Nov. 15-17, and its lineup is pleasingly random. The big-font headliners for each day are as follows: Green Day, Toto, and Zedd on Friday; Shawn Mendes, Melanie Martinez, and New Order on Saturday; and Paul McCartney, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Empire Of The Sun on Sunday.
Historical footnotes like Empire Of The Sun have to feel good about getting the same poster treatment as Paul fucking McCartney, especially with so many noteworthy names in the undercard. Some of the standouts include Beck, Kim Gordon, Iggy Pop, the Mars Volta, Clairo, bar italia, St. Vincent, Primal Scream, Water From Your Eyes, Mannequin Pussy, American Football, TOPS, Tyla, Explosions In The Sky, Porter Robinson, Sprints, Twin Shadow, Wisp, BADBADNOTGOOD, Warpaint, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, feeble little horse, Blonde Redhead, Beach Fossils, Crumb, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Travis, Boy Harsher, and Jorja Smith.
From La Jornada, November 18, 2024 (auto-translated from Spanish):
Paul McCartney, a mentor in music history, is not only a pacifist, philanthropist, vegan activist, writer, painter, and actor but now also an honorary Mexican.
To be precise, he’s a “chilango,” a term he has adopted into his vocabulary, reflecting his closeness to our country.
Macca is almost a native of Magdalena Mixhuca, home to the Estadio GNP—where he held a massive concert last Wednesday—and the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. On Sunday night and into Monday morning, he delighted his multigenerational fans at the Corona Capital festival with a selection of songs like “A Hard Day’s Night.” These performances made the cold wind fade away, warmed by his timeless, miraculous music and the fervor of thousands of souls who, through their singing, expressed their joy in exchanging their currency for an emotional feast.
Sir Paul, McCartney, or the new chilango, had already delivered a glorious concert earlier in the week as part of his Got Back tour. At the Corona Capital’s closing, his performance could be described as frenetic, energized by the youthful audience, some of whom wore blue jackets reminiscent of those from The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
Last night, one of the world’s most active and relevant musicians graced the festival’s closing. Although well-curated, the event needed James Paul’s blessing to achieve truly international “moderfoquer” status.
He didn’t perform 30 songs, but he delivered enough to induce communal euphoria that few will forget.
The former Beatle once again transformed into an almost spiritual guide, a saint to whom many prayed for a good outcome today, becoming the “San Lunes” that thousands embraced.
From La Jornada, November 18, 2024 (auto-translated from Spanish)
Hola México, quiúbole banda. Está chingón estar aquí de nuevo
Paul McCartney – From Facebook, November 18, 2024
From For Whom The Bell Tells: ‘GOT BACK’ Central and South American Tour 2024, January 13, 2025:
It’s funny that when you’re away from home, time can go so slowly, and that being on a tour
like this with so many stops can feel like you’ve been gone forever, but then when you reach the final date, you look back and it’s all gone by so quick! That’s what went through my head as we drove to the last venue on what has been – for me, as well as so many thousands of other people – a phenomenally exciting tour.And what a way to conclude the adventure that has been the last seven and a half weeks, and our stay here in Mexico City. It’s a day that is literally unlike any other on this tour, because it is not the normal set-up and routine that we have become used to. This isn’t a standalone Got Back show, this is the final day of the Corona Capital Festival. Even the location takes some getting used to: as I walk through the bustling crowds in the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, the Formula One race track in the heart of Mexico City, I feel surrounded by so much positivity and joy. I stop and speak to some, adding to the growing list of amazing people I have met on this trip. It suddenly makes me appreciate the lifetime of memories made over the thousands of miles we have covered, and I am immediately thankful for being blessed with this great fortune. It just seemed very unreal that this was all coming to an end.
As I arrived backstage, there was a palpable sense of excitement as other artists who were performing that day were hanging out around Paul’s designated compound, desperately hoping to catch a glimpse of the headline act. They were not playing quite as cool as they might usually do!
Meanwhile, out front the excitement levels are tenfold, as the stage screens project images of fans in the 80,000+ crowd holding up pictures of Paul on their phone. Whenever the cameras move away from the phones, a chorus of boos erupt, and so the cameramen rush back to find more. So funny! We also see the vast selection of Paul-themed T-shirts being sported around the site, with an abundance of Beatles, Wings and solo logos adorning many a Mexican chest.
Paul got to his dressing room at 9pm, and was joined shortly thereafter by some famous friends he wanted to catch up with – an added bonus of being on a festival bill, as opposed to performing at your own gig. Jack White and St Vincent got to sit and chill with Paul before he took the stage, on the side of which watching proceedings was Beck, while in the audience I bumped into Travis’ Fran Healy and his son. The following day at the airport on the way home I bumped into my old school friend Richard Jones (from The Feeling) and his wife Sophie Ellis Bextor. They’d both watched and loved the show after their own brilliant performance. The stars were out!
He’d been so relaxed beforehand, relaxed and making jokes with us, before finding the time for one last, quick pre-show Spanish lesson. It can be quite bewildering when one minute I’m lost in conversation with Paul, wherein he can feel like a friend, but he’s also a hero of mine, not to mention my boss, and then the next, he’s on stage fulfilling the dreams of thousands of people and you can just feel their elation being played out in a sea of smiles, waving hands, and jubilant screams.
As I watch this show, I am once again blown away by the awareness of connectivity. The following day, in their glowing review, one of the newspapers reported of “a communal hysteria that few will erase from their hearts”. My mind wandered back to the start of this tour, when I started this blog in Los Angeles. During rehearsals there, Paul was speaking with a reporter from Uruguay, who asked him about the power of music. “If you try to analyse music,” Paul replied, “you realise that it’s just frequencies, that there’s nothing but frequencies, notes that fit together, but something magical happens when they come together in a beautiful way.”
This had all been playing out in front of me over the last two months, and here something magical was happening again at our last show of the tour. The notes were commingling and bringing people together. Collectively, we forget our problems. We are transported somewhere else for a few special hours. “Listening to good music always soothes my soul,” Paul had told the reporter that day. “That’s the power of music, even if scientifically speaking it’s nothing more than a collection of frequencies. And we’re the only ones in the animal kingdom who can do that. Whales make sounds, but only humans compose songs. That’s magical too.”
Stuart Bell – Paul McCartney’s publicist – From For Whom The Bell Tells: ‘GOT BACK’ Central and South American Tour 2024, January 13, 2025
This was the 1st and only concert played at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Medley
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Jimi Hendrix
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Written by John Lennon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman / McCartney
Encore
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Takang John egbe takor • 1 year ago
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JFZN • 1 year ago
El mejor concierto de mi vida.
1. “A Hard Day’s Night”
2. “Letting Go”
3. “Got To Get You Into My Life”
4. “Come On To Me”
5. “Let Me Roll It / Foxey Lady"
6. “Let ‘Em In”
7. “My Valentine”
8. “Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five”
9. “Maybe I’m Amazed”
10. “I’ve Just Seen A Face”
11. “Love Me Do”
12. “Dance Tonight”
13. “Blackbird”
14. “Here Today”
15. “Now And Then”
16. “Lady Madonna”
17. “Jet”
18. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
19. “Band On The Run”
20. “Get Back” (with St. Vincent)
21. “Let It Be”
22. “Live And Let Die”
23. “Hey Jude”
Encore:
24. “I’ve Got A Feeling”
25. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”
26. “Helter Skelter”
27. “Golden Slumbers”
28. “Carry That Weight”
29. “The End” (with Jack White and St. Vincent)
The PaulMcCartney Project • 1 year ago
Thanks @JFZN !