We've talked before here about how our older cities have moved on...
A very long standing work friend of mine hit 50 this week. She's a big fan of all sorts of rock etc music and her husband decided to arrange her a surprise party in Liverpool, including a visit to the Cavern Club, it's lounge and Beatles tribute band.
If anybody's up that way on a similar mission then at £20 a pop it's the best value concert going.
Not only were they excellent musicians, including 'Paul' playing left-handed throughout, they were gifted actors too. Albeit with a few wigs and of course costumes they covered the band from Please Please Me, through to the Sergeant Pepper era and beyond to 1969/70.
The venue itself is a bit rough/ready, long time since I was in a place where the Gents was awash by end of the night, but even so.....
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I've not been to the Cavern, I'd always imagined that by now it would be a shadow of its former self with hideous prices for tourists.
Not like that?
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I've (obviously) no idea what the Cavern was like when/before you or I were kids. Equally obviously it's now a world famous tourist attraction.
Admission to the ordinary club bit is £4 with some OK but pretty ordinary acts playing on stage. Behind is the Cavern Club Lounge which seems to major on featuring their in house Beatles Tribute band.
All I can really say is I went last night, at a cost to me of £20 for my ticket and had a ball.
Beers were, as might be expected, overpriced carrpy keg stuff. But if I'd wanted real ale I could have stayed in Wetherspoons.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sun 27 Sep 15 at 21:44
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"I'd always imagined that by now it would be a shadow of its former self with hideous prices for tourists."
According to Wiki, "the original Cavern club closed in March 1973 and was filled in during construction work on the Merseyrail underground rail loop." The present 'Cavern Club' was reconstructed on the opposite side of the road.
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