I’ve got this years Beatles Week programme. I am quite impressed. It’s a nice size they’ve downsized it to A5 and its 100 pages long! There is nothing missing the band information and photographs are all there. Plus all the listings of events, We'd be lost without that! I’ve already had the highlighter out putting the mark on my choices.
There are a few familiar bands but most of them I don’t think I have heard of; Magical Mystery Men, Sheepdogs and Apples Band for example. I may get time to check some of them out. Most of all though I will make my favourites Beatles week bands the priority: The Tearaways, Gavin Pring, Instant Karma USA, Nube 9 and of course Beatles Week wouldn’t be Beatles Week without The Shakers! Oh and there is one person I have forgotten..good old Hal Bruce!!! (my mum’s favourite). Where would we be without him and his trusty guitar singing all those Beatles tunes!
The last few years I’ve really let Beatles Week pass me by. I’ve been mainly in a drunken state in the Adelphi sitting on the couches or the carpet talking to friends. Maybe then this year I will try and make some time for the bands as well. Beatles Week is only once a year and all these bands come to Liverpool to play Beatles (and sometimes other stuff) from all over the world.
I think this year the booze will stay behind the bar. I think I might just do quality not quantity this year. Long gone are the days in the 1990s when I used to travel up from my home in Sussex 10 hours by coach, get about 10 hours sleep all week and eat next to nothing. I’ll be taking my time watching the world go by…
Right I'm off to listen to some Beatles to get me in the mood..ask me that by the end of next week I'll be sick of hearing them, at least for a while!
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