Though only about 200 people will get in the doors to see Paul McCartney [ tickets ] perform tomorrow (12/14) at Liverpool's fabled Cavern Club, the performance will be webcast live via the Microsoft Network's British website. It will be McCartney's first appearance at the venue since the Beatles performed there in 1963. Microsoft's Windows Media Player is required to view the webcast.

About 150 free tickets to the show were raffled last week in Great Britain. HMV record stores in Liverpool, London, Birmingham, Newcastle and Glasgow distributed a total of 1,250 entry forms, from which the winners were drawn.

According to a press release issued by Microsoft, McCartney's performance will include songs from his 1999 album ''Run Devil Run'' (Capitol), a collection of both popular and obscure roots-rock tracks from the 1950s that also includes three new McCartney originals.

Sir Paul's backing band for the performance at the Cavern Club will include three players who appeared on ''Run Devil Run:'' Mick Green [ tickets ] of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour [ tickets ] on guitar and Deep Purple's Ian Paice [ tickets ] on drums.

According to a Reuters report, Cavern Club manager Bill Heckle has been offered a vacation, use of a helicopter for a week, and sexual favors in exchange for tickets to the show, but he hasn't given in to temptation.

''Women have been blatantly accosting me in the club, trying to bribe me with their bodies,'' said Heckle. ''Anyone who has got anything to swap is offering it for a ticket.''

McCartney first played at The Cavern on Jan. 24, 1958, with The Quarrymen. The original Cavern was located in the basement of a building that was bulldozed in 1973, filling the club with rubble. A new club of the same name opened nearby later that year, but it failed and its name was changed.

In 1982, spurred by the 1980 shooting death of John Lennon, the city of Liverpool excavated the basement of the original site of the club. The building's original bricks were either sold off for charity or used in the reconstruction of a larger Cavern Club on the same site as the original venue.