| Concert Tour Name: | On the Run |
| Landscape: | yes |
| Artist: | Paul McCartney |
| Album: | Band on the Run (reissue) |
| Start Date: | 15 July 2011 |
| End Date: | 29 November 2012 |
| Number Of Legs: | 6 |
| Number Of Shows: | 37 |
| Last Tour: | Up and Coming Tour (2010–11) |
| This Tour: | On the Run (2011–12) |
| Next Tour: | Out There (2013–15) |
On the Run was a concert tour by English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney. The tour began on 15 July 2011, with McCartney's first two concerts at Yankee Stadium in New York City.[1] McCartney's appearances at Yankee Stadium occurred nearly two years to the day after his 17, 18, and 21 July 2009 concerts at Citi Field, documented on the Good Evening New York City CD/DVD.
The tour was promoted by AEG Live, and six of the eight shows in the first leg (with the exception of the Yankee Stadium shows) were presented by HP. The Mexican concerts were promoted by Nextel. In an interview with Billboard in February 2012, McCartney said of his tour band: "Aren't they cool? We're having a really great time, and last year we played quite a few dates. They're such a pleasure to play with. We all enjoy each other's company and the musicianship, and next month we will have been playing together 10 years. That's long enough to make us a proper band."[2]
In response to overwhelming popular demand for tickets to McCartney's 15 July Yankee Stadium debut, a second date was added for Saturday, 16 July. McCartney also performed on three more dates on the tour: 24 July at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, 31 July at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, and 4 August at The Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. McCartney's Detroit, Chicago and Cincinnati stadium gigs were hugely anticipated returns to cities with that have hosted historical performances in the past: The 24 July Comerica Park and 31 July Wrigley Field shows were his first visits to the Detroit area and Chicago since 2005 (McCartney has not performed within Detroit City limits since 1976 during the Wings Over America Tour),[3] while the 4 August Great American Ball Park was his first Cincinnati appearance in 18 years, his last show in the city being on The New World Tour in 1993.[4]
In Montevideo, Uruguay all tickets were sold-out in about 40 minutes. On 15 April, McCartney performed for over a 54,000 sold-out crowd in the Estadio Centenario for the first time in Uruguay.[5] The artist also visited Asunción, Paraguay for the first time in his career. In the Defensores del Chaco stadium he gave a show for more than 30,000 fans (29,000 sold tickets).[6] He claimed after the show in his website that "he will never forget the lively Paraguayan crowd".[7] On 27 March, 29,000 tickets for McCartney's 19 April first ever show in Colombia became available; 24 hours later 90% of the tickets were already sold. Days before the concert 2,000 extra tickets became available and sold-out in a couple of days. Hours before McCartney performed for the very first time in Colombia, less than 900 tickets had not been sold, which made the concert a sold-out show. Paul performed for a 32,000 crowd at the Stadium El Campin for more than two hours and a half and declared that the audience in the show where possibly the best one he have had during all his career. For the first time in 19 years, McCartney performed the song "Hope of Deliverance" in Bogotá, Colombia, on 19 April, being it the very first time that he performed a song from Off the Ground album with his current line-up.[8]
Paul McCartney performed on 5 May 2012 at Omnilife Stadium at Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, his first concert in that city. For the first time, on 8 May 2012, he performed at Estadio Azteca, stating he was in front of "the loudest crowd ever", and he finished his tour in Mexico with a free show at Zócalo; for this last one, attendance was estimated to be around 250,000 people, making it the biggest audience since the Kiev (350,000) and Quebec (250,000) shows.
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Opening act | Attendance | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America[9] [10] | ||||||
| 15 July 2011 | New York City | United States | Yankee Stadium | rowspan="2" | ||
| 16 July 2011 | ||||||
| 24 July 2011 | Detroit | Comerica Park | DJ Chris Holmes | 37,854 / 37,854 | $3,470,134 | |
| 26 July 2011 | Montreal | Canada | Bell Centre | 33,733 / 33,733 | $5,448,713 | |
| 27 July 2011 | ||||||
| 31 July 2011 | Chicago | United States | Wrigley Field | 83,988 / 83,988 | $10,929,728 | |
| 1 August 2011 | ||||||
| 4 August 2011 | Cincinnati | Great American Ball Park | 41,256 / 41,256 | $4,158,146 | ||
| Asia | ||||||
| 13 November 2011 | Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates | Du Arena | |||
| Europe[11] [12] | ||||||
| 26 November 2011 | Bologna | Italy | Unipol Arena | rowspan="4" | ||
| 27 November 2011 | Milan | Mediolanum Forum | ||||
| 30 November 2011 | Paris | France | Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy | |||
| 1 December 2011 | Cologne | Germany | Lanxess Arena | |||
| 5 December 2011 | London | England | The O2 Arena | 14,946 / 16,225 | $2,091,580 | |
| 10 December 2011 | Stockholm | Sweden | Ericsson Globe Arena | rowspan="3" | ||
| 12 December 2011 | Helsinki | Finland | Hartwall Areena | |||
| 14 December 2011 | Moscow | Russia | Olimpiisky Arena | |||
| 19 December 2011 | Manchester | England | Manchester Arena | 14,800 / 15,288 | $1,981,620 | |
| 20 December 2011 | Liverpool | Echo Arena Liverpool | rowspan="3" | |||
| 24 March 2012 | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Rotterdam Ahoy | |||
| 26 March 2012 | Zurich | Switzerland | Hallenstadion | |||
| 28 March 2012 | Antwerp | Belgium | Sportpaleis | 14,291 / 14,399 | $1,912,160 | |
| 29 March 2012 | London | England | Royal Albert Hall | |||
| South America[13] | ||||||
| 15 April 2012 | Montevideo | Uruguay | Estadio Centenario | rowspan="6" | ||
| 17 April 2012 | Asunción | Paraguay | Estadio Defensores del Chaco | |||
| 19 April 2012 | Bogotá | Colombia | El Campin Stadium | |||
| 21 April 2012 | Recife | Brazil | Estadio Arruda | |||
| 22 April 2012 | ||||||
| 25 April 2012 | Florianópolis | Estádio da Ressacada | ||||
| North America | ||||||
| 5 May 2012 | Guadalajara | Mexico | Estadio Omnilife | 27,186 / 31,589 | $2,866,480 | |
| 8 May 2012 | Mexico City | Estadio Azteca | 53,080 / 57,726 | $5,988,030 | ||
| 10 May 2012 | Zócalo | 250,000 / 250,000 | rowspan="6" | |||
| 11 November 2012 | St. Louis | United States | Scottrade Center | rowspan="5" | ||
| 14 November 2012 | Houston | Minute Maid Park | ||||
| 25 November 2012 | Vancouver | Canada | BC Place | |||
| 28 November 2012 | Edmonton | Rexall Place | ||||
| 29 November 2012 | ||||||
| Songs | McCartney | Anderson | Ray | Wickens | Laboriel | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Hello Goodbye" or "Magical Mystery Tour" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=7 | Bass | style=text-align:center; rowspan=11 | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=5 | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Keyboards | style=text-align:center; rowspan=14 | Drums |
| "Junior's Farm" | ||||||||||
| "All My Loving" | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar | ||||||||
| "Jet" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=7 | Keyboards | ||||||||
| "Drive My Car" or "Got to Get You into My Life" | ||||||||||
| "Sing the Changes" | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | ||||||||
| "The Night Before" | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar | ||||||||
| "Let Me Roll It" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=7 | Bass | ||||||
| "Paperback Writer" | ||||||||||
| "The Long and Winding Road" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=4 | Piano | ||||||||
| "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" | style=text-align:center; | Keyboards/Maracas | ||||||||
| "Let 'Em In" or "Come and Get It" or "My Valentine" | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar or Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Keyboards | ||||||
| "Maybe I'm Amazed" | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar | ||||||||
| "I've Just Seen a Face" or "I'm Looking Through You" or "Things We Said Today" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=5 | Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=3 | Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Shaker or Tambourine/Keyboards or Acoustic Guitar | ||||
| "Hope of Deliverance" (only in Bogota, Florianopolis and Mexico) | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Bass | ||||
| "And I Love Her" or "I Will" | style=text-align:center; | Bass | style=text-align:center; | Claves or Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Drums | ||||
| "Blackbird" | None | None | None | None | ||||||
| "Here Today" | ||||||||||
| "Dance Tonight" | style=text-align:center; | Mandolin | style=text-align:center; rowspan=3 | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=3 | Bass | style=text-align:center; rowspan=17 | Keyboards | style=text-align:center; rowspan=3 | Drums |
| "Every Night" (only in Mexico) | style=text-align:center; rowspan=4 | Acoustic Guitar | ||||||||
| "Mrs. Vandebilt" | ||||||||||
| "Eleanor Rigby" | None | None | None | |||||||
| "Michelle" (only in Montreal and Paris) | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=4 | Bass | style=text-align:center; rowspan=15 | Drums | ||||
| "Ram On" (only in some cities) | style=text-align:center; | Ukulele | style=text-align:center; rowspan=7 | Electric Guitar | ||||||
| "Something" | style=text-align:center; | Ukulele/Acoustic Guitar | ||||||||
| "Yellow Submarine" (only in Rotterdam, Antwerp and Florianopolis) | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | ||||||||
| "Band on the Run" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=3 | Bass | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar/Acoustic Guitar | ||||||
| "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | ||||||||
| "Back in the U.S.S.R." | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar | ||||||||
| "I've Got a Feeling" | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Bass | ||||||
| "A Day in the Life"/"Give Peace a Chance" | style=text-align:center; | Bass | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | ||||
| "Let It Be" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=3 | Piano | style=text-align:center; rowspan=6 | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=3 | Bass | ||||
| "Live and Let Die" | ||||||||||
| "Hey Jude" | ||||||||||
| "Lady Madonna" or "The Word"/"All You Need Is Love" | style=text-align:center; | Piano or Bass | style=text-align:center; | Bass or Electric Guitar | ||||||
| "Day Tripper" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Bass | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Tambourine | ||||
| "Get Back" | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Keyboards | ||||||||
| "Yesterday" | style=text-align:center; | Acoustic Guitar | None | None | None | |||||
| "Helter Skelter" | style=text-align:center; | Bass | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; rowspan=2 | Drums |
| "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End" | style=text-align:center; | Piano/Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Bass/Electric Guitar | style=text-align:center; | Keyboards |