Team in Charge of Sir Paul McCartney's Concert in St. Petersburg Guarantees Good Weather

ST. PETERSBURG - (RIA Novosti) The team in charge of Sir Paul McCartney's Sunday concert at Dvortsovaya Square, St. Petersburg says good weather for the time of the show would be provided by all means, the press service of the sponsor Alfa Bank said.

"Should rain be forecast for the day of the concert, the team in charge of the performance commit themselves to appropriate technical measures to improve weather conditions, including cloud dispersion," reads the press release RIA Novosti received on Friday.

McCartney's concert at Dvortsovaya Square will begin on Sunday 6.00 p.m. Moscow time. The performance is expected to last for two and a half hours.

St. Petersburg's concert will be the only Russia's concert on his 04 Summer Tour. He will sign some songs from The Beatles, Wings, and some of his own.

According to Alfa Bank's press service, the St. Petersburg concert will be the Sir Paul's 3,000th performance on stage.

It took thirty-two trucks to deliver the appropriate equipment and scenery. The external video system alone weighs over 40t. McCartney's team is 352 men.

The scene made in Los Angeles, U.S. is 62 meters in length and 22 meters in height. It took 262 British and 150 Russian specialists to assemble it.

About 15,000 seats and 45,000 standing tickets have been booked, about 10,000 spectators coming from Moscow and other regions of Russia incuding the remote ones like Siberia and the Urals.

Paul McCartney will present a unique specially scripted show. The entire team has been rehearsing the St. Petersburg concert at London's Millenium Dome where scenery, light, and sound were tested, and the playlist was made.

Alfa Bank's press service added that security during the concert would be maintained by 4,800 St. Petersburg and Leningrad region's policemen, 1,200 men of the Interior Ministry Force, and by special teams of St. Petersburg's departments of the Federal Guard Service and Federal Security Service. Four fire engines and six ambulance vehicles will also be at hand.