Post by Dr Winston on Feb 22, 2006 18:40:49 GMT 1
Source: Cavern City Tours, Liverpool.
FRIDAY 25 AUG
Friday’s events begin in the afternoon in the main concert room at The Adelphi Hotel; with a great show ‘The Beatles at The Grammy’s’. The show featuring The Merseybeatles, Instant Karma and Banned on The Run, highlights all of the Fabs group and solo work that were awarded the ultimate accolade - a Grammy. Lets hope it includes Paul’s latest solo offering which has been nominated as 2006 album of the year. Sure to be a high point of the whole weekend is ‘The Bootleg Beatles’ at The Liverpool Empire Theatre, a venue which The Beatles themselves played. The Bootlegs have quite rightly established a world-class reputation with sell out tours all over the globe. A huge multimedia production with an accompanying string quartet, the group boast that "satisfaction is guaranteed". The Bootleg Beatles will be supported by ‘Kings of Rhythm’ a great local Beatles swing band. As soon as this ends, the party gets in full swing back at The Adelphi Hotel with live music in three bars until the wee small hours.
SATURDAY 26 AUG
Saturday morning is auction time, which is organised by The Beatles Shop (0151 236 8066) and is always a huge attraction as fans try to get a bargain. The spiritual home for the auction is LIPA (Paul and George’s old school) and entrance includes a catalogue for the auction. In the afternoon in the City Centre, there are outside stages, one of which will feature Johnny Silver’s ‘Come Together Right Now’ show, which sold out the Empire Theatre in December 2005 as well as theatres up and down the country. The show explores a fantasy reunion of the four-mop tops post 1970. This free spectacle will be accompanied by a whole days entertainment by bands from all over the world. The evening gig at The Empire Theatre is entitled ‘From Liverpool to Hamburg, to India and back again!’ This extravaganza brings together three of the Beatles most important contemporaries and the show covers the whole spectrum of The Beatles career, from their inception through to their trip to see the Maharishi in 1968. The original Quarrymen feature four of the guys who used to be in Johns original band, Rod Davis, Len Garry, Colin Hanton and John ‘Duff’ Lowe . . . legends indeed. Their authentic skiffle set will give way to the loud, dirty and seedy rock n roll of The Reeperbahn in Hamburg as the one and only Tony Sheridan ( who the Beatles backed and recorded with in Germany) shows us all why he was such a huge influence on The Beatles. Finally, after years of trying to book Donovan for Beatle Week, we have finally achieved it. Apart from the fact that he is one of our favourite artists of all time, he is part of the inner sanctum of the Beatles story. Do you know that Paul McCartney produced and appeared on Donovan’s own material? Do you know Donovan composed part of Yellow Submarine? And yes, most people do know he went to India with the Fabs to meditate with the Maharishi. His show of course will feature all of his own fantastic material but do expect him to give his own insight into working so closely with the Beatles. This is sure to be a highlight of the festival. After that it is back to the Adelphi Hotel for Saturday night’s party till the wee small hours, featuring over a dozen live bands.
SUNDAY 27 AUG
Sunday is traditionally Convention Day and this year is no exception, apart from the fact that this year it will begin at 10am and finish at midnight. We will be lucky to get everything in with nearly 50 bands in a day on four stages, plus a flea market, an exhibition, guest interviews, video and film room and surprises galore. The Convention Day is jam packed with something for everybody although you will find it absolutely impossible to do everything in the fourteen hours. ‘Top of the Bill’ on Convention Day is an appearance by Pete Best which will include an historical retrospective of his life and career. Just when you think it’s all over . . . think again! At midnight the Cavern Club hosts its first all nighter for over 35 years! What better band to host this extravaganza than the Prellies, who specialise in The Beatles Hamburg era. It really will be a historic day (and night!). A Hard Days Night indeed.
MONDAY 28 AUG
If it’s Monday it must be the final day of Mathew Street Festival, the biggest City Centre-based free music festival in Europe. Typically attracting 300,000 people to the City and featuring over 200 bands of every musical persuasion. Whatever your taste in music, there is something here for you – with the magnificent City Centre architecture as the backdrop, the streets of Liverpool are closed down to traffic and the outside stages pulsate to the sounds of rock, pop, swing, jazz, country, punk, Ska, indie and of course . . . The Beatles, which always has its own dedicated stage. Every pub, club and restaurant joins in the fun and the City Centre is just one huge party zone throughout the day into the early evening. Yes, and unbelievably it’s all F-R-E-E-!!! As the day’s entertainment comes to a close it is time to get down to the Empire Theatre for the finale concert. And what a finale it is!! The theme of this year’s finale concert is ‘MERSEY-BEAT’ played by those very original guys who started it all over 40 years ago. The bill is extraordinary featuring The Searchers, The MerseyBeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Escorts and Beryl Marsden. There will be even more additions to the bill making it the biggest and best line up of Merseybeat for many many years. As the curtain comes down at The Empire, another rises at the Adelphi Hotel where the VIP party will star ‘The Overtures’ who will pay their own tribute to the ‘NME Poll Winners Concert’ in a two-hour multi media extravaganza. The Overtures are perhaps the UK’s top sixties tribute act and have been one of the top bands at Beatle Week for over 10 years. Their show will highlight the work of The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces, The Spencer Davies Group, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and of course, four lads from Liverpool. What a day! What a weekend!
TUESDAY 29 AUG
Historically Tuesday used to be wind down day – not any more. There will still be time to catch over 25 bands at The Cavern Club and Cavern Pub!! The highlight however, is always the "Farewell Liverpool Concert" in the Cavern Club, in the back room on the BIG stage, where Paul McCartney played in 1999 and again in 2003. Principal members of The Hollies and Badfinger are jetting over from the States to perform for us with Terry Sylvester (ex- Escorts, Swinging Blue Jeans and The Voice of the Hollies) and Joey Molland of Badfinger, who used to record on Apple, The Beatles own record label. What a great way to end the weekend. With two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, this is a must see gig, with performances by the real McCoy. Indeed of the main feature concerts and gigs highlighted here for Beatle Week 2006, over seventy five percent of the artists are originally from Liverpool, which demonstrates just why Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture City for 2008. Supplementing these featured gigs at the Adelphi, Cavern, Empire and The Mathew Street Festival, there will be other bands from the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada to name just a few, making this festival not only the biggest but the best of its kind in the world. ‘Book early’ as they say!!
FRIDAY 25 AUG
Friday’s events begin in the afternoon in the main concert room at The Adelphi Hotel; with a great show ‘The Beatles at The Grammy’s’. The show featuring The Merseybeatles, Instant Karma and Banned on The Run, highlights all of the Fabs group and solo work that were awarded the ultimate accolade - a Grammy. Lets hope it includes Paul’s latest solo offering which has been nominated as 2006 album of the year. Sure to be a high point of the whole weekend is ‘The Bootleg Beatles’ at The Liverpool Empire Theatre, a venue which The Beatles themselves played. The Bootlegs have quite rightly established a world-class reputation with sell out tours all over the globe. A huge multimedia production with an accompanying string quartet, the group boast that "satisfaction is guaranteed". The Bootleg Beatles will be supported by ‘Kings of Rhythm’ a great local Beatles swing band. As soon as this ends, the party gets in full swing back at The Adelphi Hotel with live music in three bars until the wee small hours.
SATURDAY 26 AUG
Saturday morning is auction time, which is organised by The Beatles Shop (0151 236 8066) and is always a huge attraction as fans try to get a bargain. The spiritual home for the auction is LIPA (Paul and George’s old school) and entrance includes a catalogue for the auction. In the afternoon in the City Centre, there are outside stages, one of which will feature Johnny Silver’s ‘Come Together Right Now’ show, which sold out the Empire Theatre in December 2005 as well as theatres up and down the country. The show explores a fantasy reunion of the four-mop tops post 1970. This free spectacle will be accompanied by a whole days entertainment by bands from all over the world. The evening gig at The Empire Theatre is entitled ‘From Liverpool to Hamburg, to India and back again!’ This extravaganza brings together three of the Beatles most important contemporaries and the show covers the whole spectrum of The Beatles career, from their inception through to their trip to see the Maharishi in 1968. The original Quarrymen feature four of the guys who used to be in Johns original band, Rod Davis, Len Garry, Colin Hanton and John ‘Duff’ Lowe . . . legends indeed. Their authentic skiffle set will give way to the loud, dirty and seedy rock n roll of The Reeperbahn in Hamburg as the one and only Tony Sheridan ( who the Beatles backed and recorded with in Germany) shows us all why he was such a huge influence on The Beatles. Finally, after years of trying to book Donovan for Beatle Week, we have finally achieved it. Apart from the fact that he is one of our favourite artists of all time, he is part of the inner sanctum of the Beatles story. Do you know that Paul McCartney produced and appeared on Donovan’s own material? Do you know Donovan composed part of Yellow Submarine? And yes, most people do know he went to India with the Fabs to meditate with the Maharishi. His show of course will feature all of his own fantastic material but do expect him to give his own insight into working so closely with the Beatles. This is sure to be a highlight of the festival. After that it is back to the Adelphi Hotel for Saturday night’s party till the wee small hours, featuring over a dozen live bands.
SUNDAY 27 AUG
Sunday is traditionally Convention Day and this year is no exception, apart from the fact that this year it will begin at 10am and finish at midnight. We will be lucky to get everything in with nearly 50 bands in a day on four stages, plus a flea market, an exhibition, guest interviews, video and film room and surprises galore. The Convention Day is jam packed with something for everybody although you will find it absolutely impossible to do everything in the fourteen hours. ‘Top of the Bill’ on Convention Day is an appearance by Pete Best which will include an historical retrospective of his life and career. Just when you think it’s all over . . . think again! At midnight the Cavern Club hosts its first all nighter for over 35 years! What better band to host this extravaganza than the Prellies, who specialise in The Beatles Hamburg era. It really will be a historic day (and night!). A Hard Days Night indeed.
MONDAY 28 AUG
If it’s Monday it must be the final day of Mathew Street Festival, the biggest City Centre-based free music festival in Europe. Typically attracting 300,000 people to the City and featuring over 200 bands of every musical persuasion. Whatever your taste in music, there is something here for you – with the magnificent City Centre architecture as the backdrop, the streets of Liverpool are closed down to traffic and the outside stages pulsate to the sounds of rock, pop, swing, jazz, country, punk, Ska, indie and of course . . . The Beatles, which always has its own dedicated stage. Every pub, club and restaurant joins in the fun and the City Centre is just one huge party zone throughout the day into the early evening. Yes, and unbelievably it’s all F-R-E-E-!!! As the day’s entertainment comes to a close it is time to get down to the Empire Theatre for the finale concert. And what a finale it is!! The theme of this year’s finale concert is ‘MERSEY-BEAT’ played by those very original guys who started it all over 40 years ago. The bill is extraordinary featuring The Searchers, The MerseyBeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Escorts and Beryl Marsden. There will be even more additions to the bill making it the biggest and best line up of Merseybeat for many many years. As the curtain comes down at The Empire, another rises at the Adelphi Hotel where the VIP party will star ‘The Overtures’ who will pay their own tribute to the ‘NME Poll Winners Concert’ in a two-hour multi media extravaganza. The Overtures are perhaps the UK’s top sixties tribute act and have been one of the top bands at Beatle Week for over 10 years. Their show will highlight the work of The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces, The Spencer Davies Group, Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and of course, four lads from Liverpool. What a day! What a weekend!
TUESDAY 29 AUG
Historically Tuesday used to be wind down day – not any more. There will still be time to catch over 25 bands at The Cavern Club and Cavern Pub!! The highlight however, is always the "Farewell Liverpool Concert" in the Cavern Club, in the back room on the BIG stage, where Paul McCartney played in 1999 and again in 2003. Principal members of The Hollies and Badfinger are jetting over from the States to perform for us with Terry Sylvester (ex- Escorts, Swinging Blue Jeans and The Voice of the Hollies) and Joey Molland of Badfinger, who used to record on Apple, The Beatles own record label. What a great way to end the weekend. With two shows, one in the afternoon and one in the evening, this is a must see gig, with performances by the real McCoy. Indeed of the main feature concerts and gigs highlighted here for Beatle Week 2006, over seventy five percent of the artists are originally from Liverpool, which demonstrates just why Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture City for 2008. Supplementing these featured gigs at the Adelphi, Cavern, Empire and The Mathew Street Festival, there will be other bands from the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada to name just a few, making this festival not only the biggest but the best of its kind in the world. ‘Book early’ as they say!!
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