looks like i just missed you..went to liverpool last week with my dad for 4 days, stayed in the Sir Thomas hotel right near matthew street..anyone else go there then? just last week i can't remeber the day we went...anyway caverns good but the service is crap, couldn't even get a coke in there!took photo's on disposable camera..didn't go into the grapes, but there was loads of buskers around there playing beatles...oh yess and i also went on the 'magical mystery tour' bus tour that took you to lenny pane, and strawberry fields ect, with the hilarious' guide Eddy and the driver Les, eddy claimed to have known them.........beatles story is also quite good but lacks in stuff when it gets to there 'later' days period...thats just about all we did beatle-wise, but its nice up there, have a good time folks!
Lucky you are guys! The time will come and I'll join you in Liverpool Maybe following or other year Hope things'll go well in Moscow and then I have enough money.
Just got back. Unfortunately didn't catch up with Al it wasn't in the stars. Spent most of my time in The Cavern - mainly because they didn't seem to mind people chuffing - and saw some excellent bands and danced my bollocks off. Favourites were a Japanese band called The Silver Beats (I'm not sure whether they realise they've named themselves after a vegetable) and an Argentinian band with a gorgeous female vocalist/ guitarist who actually got me dancing to A Day In The Life. Fantastic. The only band I couldn't watch were an American Lennon Tribute band who each evening "showcased a different Lennon solo album." Um, no thanks. Almost every band finished with Hey Jude, and more than once I caught myself in the middle of the crowd, all of us hands in the air, eyes closed, singing along. It was almost raptures and tongues. I thought then that this is getting a bit spooky, and I decided not to do any pilgrimage to birth places etc. Stupid probably.On the positive side, its not often I get to go to a bar and feel young. And if I hear I Saw Her Standing There one more time people will die. Liverpool is (hoping I don't offend anyone here) one of the most depressing places I've been to. It feels like a city that's dying. The City Centre seems like one litter strewn street. Go ten minutes into the suburbs and there's whole streets boarded up and derilect. Loads of collapsing factories and the Cathedral glowers over the town like a tombstone. But I'll be back next year.But didn't they though. I see you guys been having some fun.
Well I got back late Friday, and wow - Liverpool was such an experience! I totally agree with you Kevin about the aesthetic's of the City centre; the clashing of historical architecture with the frankly banal highstreets and market areas made for a slightly depressing feel. But come night-time, the energy of the city was personally something that was very good for me to see, feel and generally encounter
Student spots like the Jacaranda basement to me, still embodied that whole art-college student feel - with small dark corners, a mix of fashions and a laid back mood which just isn't evident up here in the North East.
Thursday night was by far the highlight of my trip - cramped in the Cavern pub (Not the one that's designed to look like the Cavern - the one opposite) The heat was ridiculous, the sweat profuse and the beat overpowering - but I'd have it no other way! The bands that performed were all from Argentina - and blew me away in their musical wealth and band knowledge. Each band performed different era's ranging from the odd Decca audition number [Besame Mucho etc] through to BBC covers then onto the Shea Stadium set before finally ending on Psychedelia. Afterwards, we went for a drink with one of the bands...but sadly couldn't find anywhere open! after they departed we luckily found Heeby Jeebies (?) a pub/club in another cellar which was happening.
Such a fantastic time - and I'm only gutted I never arranged or bumped into some of you DM guys. There is always next year!
The band in the 2nd to last picture blew me away. It was them that had me dancing to a Day In The Life. And I can't believe The Cavern only charged 3.50 entrance.
^ Yeah - We were going to go to the Cavern, but the Bouncer explained that once you paid in, you had to stay which I didn't like .. so we went over the road for free.
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Maybe following or other year 
Hope things'll go well in Moscow and then I have enough money.
