I was having a look in my display cabinet..

I came across this postcard. It's from Andre Barreau. Perhaps most well know for being George Harrison in the first big tibute band The Bootleg Beatles. This was to do with his other band Those Magnificent Men, a country band. I can not remember if i went to this party for his album or not. Me and a couple of mates actually started a fanzine for the band. At the time I thought it was very funny and witty and was a hand *stuck together* job. I had a pen name Ms Femme Fatale, not appropriate really but thats another story.

I also have to say the Bootleg Beatles were ALL to me from 1993 when I first saw them at the Empire in Liverpool. In the end I saw them 57 times. I travelled the country as far as Cornwall, Bristol, Stoke, Birmingham. Manchester, Croydon, London..and various other

venues! We even got to know the band and they became friends. We got into the sound checks, which at the time was very exciting. At the time I didnt get bored of seeing them all those times. Even thought the show was exactly the same. We even threw jelly babies at them for some of the shows to recreate the Beatles concerts, trying not to hit them! We made banners, and wore red trousers and had special t-shirts made. It was all very amusing at the time. We certainly got ourselves noticed. The funniest thing was when me and my mate dressed up as John and Yoko for one of the gigs! The audience just stared..I was Yoko complete with long black wig!

I actually had quite a collection of letters from Andre but they are long gone

. I do still have the demo tape of his album somewhere, which he sent to me. i last saw Andre in 2008 and it was nice to catch up with him but I wouldn't go and see the Bootleg Beatles now as there are far too many other Beatles bands, but I enjoyed the good times I had seeing them.