The Boys of Dungeon Lane LA Listening Party (Home to Us)

On April 10, 2026, a limited number of fans, subscribed to Paul McCartney’s official mailing list and residing in California, received an email invitation to attend an exclusive first listening session of his new album “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane.” The event took place on April 16 at producer Andrew Watt’s studio in Los Angeles, with Paul McCartney and Andrew Watt both in attendance.

On May 21, a video featuring excerpts from the session was released. It showed Paul and Andrew Watt entering the room, before Paul discussed the album’s second single, “Home To Us“, and recalled a hitch-hiking trip to the south of England with George Harrison.

The video also included the first publicly released excerpt of “Mountain Top“, one of the new tracks from the album.

Okay. So, so here’s the story. When I first worked with Andrew and we did As You Lie There, I was doing other things. We had to work in sort of spurts. We’d do that, then I had something like a tour or something and we do something else, and then we’d make another track. So, it wasn’t just over one complete period. Um, why am I saying this? [laughter] There’s going to be a very good reason for saying this. That’s what it is. So anyway, I’d worked with him and I saw Ringo and I said, “Oh yeah, I worked with this guy, Andrew. You know, he’s great.” So Ringo came over to Andrew’s studio then played a bit of drums. I think Ringo thought that was all he had to do, play a little bit of drums and Andrew would make a track out of it, you know, and make some sort of marvellous thing out of it, which Andrew didn’t cuz it doesn’t work like that. [laughter] We left it like that and then we went on and did all the stuff. But then at one point I said, “You remember that stuff that Ringo came over that drum thing that he did?” I said, “Can I hear it?” Just see what he did, you know, just out of curiosity. We listened to it. I thought, “Wow, that’s really good.” So, I said, “Well, what we should do, we should make the track that Ringo hoped you would make [laughter] and we should do it and then get it over to him and, you know, complete the circle kind of thing. Home to us.

Paul McCartney

Some of the tracks on this album are about memories of mine. One of the funny things we used to do before the Beatles, I would say to John and George actually was saying, “Should we should we go hitchhiking?” We didn’t have much money. So the the thing to do was to get a lift off lorries that were going down south from Liverpool. If you got a lift, you had a holiday for nothing, you know. And I’d suggested this to George. So him and me did it. And the great thing is, you know, it really bonds you cuz um you’re just stuck with each other. Um and so you learn each other’s humor, learn each other’s likes and dislikes. On the Welsh trip on going to Harlech, we thumbed a lift and it was a little milk van and those were the first electric cars you ever saw. That’s what they used electric cars for. We just just about got in and there was the driver here, George, sitting in the middle and then me here. George was sitting on the battery. We didn’t think anything of it, you know. It’s like, “Yeah, okay. Somewhere to sit and we’re getting a free lift.” Suddenly, George jumps up. I said, “What? What’s up?” It turned out he had jeans with a zip on the back and it connected up on the battery. So I must say we when we got to the bed and breakfast later he showed me had a big zip mark on his butt [laughter] It brings you together.

Paul McCartney

It’s always such a joy getting a call from my friend @paulmccartney and his incredible team to dream something up together. Especially when it means surprising unsuspecting fans with an intimate evening of storytelling, laughter, and brand new music from Paul himself alongside producer @thisiswatt

The first two episodes are out now on YouTube (link in bio). It was such a magical day hearing the stories behind Paul’s beautiful new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane and watching fans experience it all in real time.

Huge thank you to Paul’s amazing management team @scottquest @luciepanton @jaimefinkel and Ben Chappell at MPL Communications, and the team at Capitol Records for such an unforgettable evening.

And massive love to our incredible crew who helped bring it all to life.

Produced by @subtractive
Directed by @brantleyg

Director of Photography — @petermosiman
Camera Operators — @ericulbrich @hailey.enge
1st AC — @spencercgoodall
Sound — Brandon Loulias
Editor — @radums
Colorist — @aztechfilm
G&E — @pinkbox.studio

From Brantley Gutierrez on Instagram, June 4, 2026