Paul McCartney Rumoured To Tour Australia This Year

Another enormous tour could be landing on our shores this October and November, with the Herald Sun reporting that Paul McCartney is in talks to return to Australia.

So far, the newspaper understands that McCartney, potentially brought to Australia by Frontier Touring, is looking at dates on the east coast of the country, with the potential for other cities being added to his itinerary.

Frontier Touring declined to comment.

If McCartney does return to Australia in 2023, those dates will be his first since headlining Glastonbury last year. His 2022 tour grossed $100 million over a massive 50-date run.

With Frontier Touring reportedly attached to the potential 2023 Paul McCartney Australian tour, the touring company adds yet another legend to this summer’s sold-out tours by Foo Fighters and Taylor Swift.

Paul McCartney last toured Australia in December 2017, with the Beatle surpassing The Music’s expectations on his first stop at Perth’s NIB Stadium.

After “ahh”-ing through A Day In The Life and taking fans through John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance, The Music’s Dan Cribb noted that “by the time Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Band On The Run rolled around, no one had to be told to sing along.”

Cribb also recognised McCartney’s “childlike enthusiasm” as being “infectious”, making for a stadium concert like no other. In Perth, McCartney established a long-standing connection with the massive audience with hours of songs we all know and love. The closing set – Yesterday, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Helter Skelter and Golden Slumbers, among others, “topped off” the show “with that onstage proposal promised earlier and WA Police Pipe Band supplying drums and bagpipes for Mull Of Kintyre.”

You can read the entire review here.

Joining McCartney at his Glastonbury headline slot was none other than Dave Grohl, who made his first on-stage appearance since the passing of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Last month, rumours arose of rap superstar Eminem also joining in on the fun down under, with an anonymous caller at Ticketek telling Triple M that he was poised to perform in Adelaide.

“I heard a big name is coming to town at the end of the year, and it's Eminem... a friend of a friend let it slip from Ticketek,” the anonymous caller claimed. “They [Ticketek] are currently working with Adelaide Oval to sort out a venue.”

A few days later, Mark 'Roo' Ricciuto also addressed the Eminem touring rumours on his 104.7 Triple M show, stating, “They're 100 per cent in negotiations… but it's not done yet. Ticketek are involved and Adelaide Oval,” Daily Mail reports.

Ricciuto continued, “It won't be in 2023… it will be between the Adelaide Oval Test match against the West Indies and Round one of the football,” placing the rumoured tour anywhere between January and mid-March 2024.