Aaron Paul Opens Up About Tracking Down Tour Managers to Get Bands to Perform in His Living Room

Hot Ones host Sean Evans is blowing the lid off of one of the country’s most exclusive, top-secret concert venues: Aaron Paul’s living room.

On the latest episode of his culinary web series posted Thursday (May 22), the interviewer got the Breaking Bad star to open up about his little-known house shows, for which Paul will track down bands’ tour managers and ask if their clients can play in his personal recreation area. “How did you know about that?” the actor said after Evans asked about the concerts. “This guy — amazing.”

“We’ve been doing these shows for north of a decade,” continued Paul. “I would love for you to come to the next one. But the last one [was] actually one of my favorite bands, Cigarettes After Sex. No one has phones or cameras. Everyone’s just in the moment.”

In all his years of inviting his favorite bands to perform in his space, Paul says he’s rarely ever been turned down. “Honestly, like 90 percent of the time, people say ‘Yeah, I’m down,'” he told Evans. “That’s pretty good!”

If his tenacity for hosting house shows isn’t indication enough, Paul has long been a music fanatic. In a 2012 interview with Spin, he shared that some of his favorite artists include Bright Eyes, M83, Radiohead and Arcade Fire — the latter of which he hilariously bribed his way into seeing at a 500-cap show in Los Angeles by promising to bring the band pizza back in 2014.

Inversely, some of the world’s biggest music stars are also big fans of Paul. In 2018, he recalled how Drake and Rihanna both freaked out when meeting him at different points, and in 2023, the actor and his Breaking Bad costar Bryan Cranston bartended at Drizzy’s 37th birthday.

Watch Paul open up about his private house shows on Hot Ones above.