This is my dear self playing at The Cavern Liverpool in 2008 I think. The song is available from itunes if you so desire.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/demonstration-ep/id299588468
I kinda like Liverpool, but it always feel like “the day after” something, like the circus just left town or something. It was part of the IPO festival http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com/ good group of people.
The only other time I had been in the cavern was on a Saturday night with my mate Jonas, it was full of hen nights and god awful modern beats. And I always had in the back of my mind “it’s not even the actual one!”
A new beginning
April 26th 1984 was heralded as a new beginning with the opening of a new Cavern Club. Over 15,000 of the old Cavern bricks had been saved and treated. The old bricks were used to reconstruct the arches and the vaults to more or less the same dimensions as the original club. there are however a number of significant differences between the original Club and new floor plan.
- The Club today only occupies 75% of the original site.
- The reconstructed club is deeper than the original. Between 1957 and 1973 you would have descended 18 stairs. Today you will walk down 30 steps.
- The entrance to the Club today is 15 yards nearer to North John Street than the original club. Ironically the main fire escape onto Mathew Street from the new Club is the exact site of the original doorway. Why they didn’t put the reconstructed entrance in the same place remains a mystery - the present day entrance could have been the fire escape.
- The original archways and vaults were at 90° to Mathew Street, not parallel as they are today. In fact the stage Paul McCartney performed on 14th December 1999, is only feet away from the original Cavern Stage.
