Paul McCartney Will Play a Surprise Show in NYC Tonight

Paul McCartney will play a special show tonight, Feb. 11, in New York City, with tickets on-sale now — but only available in person. 

The show will take place at NYC’s storied Bowery Ballroom, with doors set for 5 p.m. ET and showtime for 6:30 p.m. ET. Tickets are only available at the Bowery Ballroom box office and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis, with one ticket per person. 

Only physical tickets to the show are being sold and accepted at the door, meaning any digital tickets will be considered fake. McCartney’s Instagram post warned fans: “Avoid purchasing tickets from third-party vendors. Fake tickets will not be honored and entry will be denied.”

The surprise gig will be McCartney’s first of 2025 after spending much of last year on the final leg of his Got Back Tour. The run originally launched in 2022 and finally wrapped in December 2024 with a special London show featuring Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood. It’s unclear at the moment whether the Bowery Ballroom show will just be a one-off, or whether McCartney is plotting similar gigs for the rest of 2025.

One resolution the musician did have for this year was finishing his next solo album. In a short Q&A with fans on his website, McCartney said that he’s “been working on a lot of songs,” but had to put the album “to the side” to focus on the Got Back Tour. 

“I’m hoping to get back into that and finish up a lot of these songs,” McCartney wrote. “So, how’s about that? My New Year’s resolution is to finish a new album!”

McCartney’s most recent solo album, McCartney III, arrived in 2020. It was a follow-up of sorts to its two predecessors, 1970’s McCartney, and 1980’s McCartney II, though it directly followed his 2018 solo effort, Egypt Station.