PAUL PLAYS AT FREE COVENT GARDEN GIG

Paul delighted his fans by playing an impromptu gig in Covent Garden.And performed songs from his latest album, New, from a truck parked on the piazza.Some 2,000 fans gathered in Covent Garden to hear Paul

SETLIST:
1-NEW
2-SAVE US
3-EVERYBODY OUT THERE
4-QUEENNIE EYE
5-NEW(REPRISE)

Paul has given an impromptu gig in Covent Garden during the lunchtime rush.

"Good afternoon," he told that assembled crowd of more than 2,000 fans. "Welcome to Covent Garden.""We're just going to do some songs from our new album so get your phones out... As if they weren't already," he added.
Paul sang 4 songs from his latest album, New, from a truck parked on the piazza. It follows a similar stunt in New York last week.
The London gig began at 1330 BST, about an hour after Paul announced it on Twitter.

"I'm getting ready to pop up in Covent Garden," tweeted. "Oh baby!"
"Alright! Busking!" he joked after taking to the stage, watched by his daughter, Stella.
"This is a change from the '60s because we would just have been coming in from the clubs right now."

Paul opened with his current single, also called New, and closed with the same song approximately 20 minutes later, telling the audience: "Thank you very much. OK now, back to work!"

"It was very exciting," Paul told the BBC afterwards. "It felt little bit like I was in a dream - sort of a little bit spacey."The gig was an unexpected bonus for many tourists.
The gig came exactly a week after Paul was mobbed by fans, following a pop-up show in Times Square.
He said the shows had been suggested by Stella. "She said, 'what you should do is just pop up somewhere and do a gig, and everyone will just get their phones out and they'll tweet it," the star told the BBC. "And I said, 'well that's not a bad idea - however, I've now got to go and do it!'"
The hit-and-run concerts echo The Beatles' final live performance, a mile down the road from Covent Garden, on the roof of their record label, Apple.

  

That show, in January 1969, brought traffic on Savile Row to a standstill and was eventually shut down by police who ordered the band's touring manager, Mal Evans, to turn off their amplifiers.
"It started to filter up from Mal that the police were complaining, Paul later recalled in The Beatles Anthology.
"We said, 'We're not stopping'. He said, 'The police are going to arrest you'."
The star remembered replying: "Good end to the film. Let them do it. Great! That's an end: Beatles Busted on Rooftop Gig!"
Paul's latest solo album was released on Monday. Early sales data suggests the record, which was produced by Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse) and Paul Epworth (Adele), amongst others, is likely to chart at number three this weekend.
He is also due to appear on BBC One's Graham Norton show on Friday night.