We were not quite sure what to expect and speculated on what we were about to see. Neither of us was old enough to be a fan of the Beatles in the Sixties but we had heard their music and more or less knew their story.
We arrived shortly after the first song and, on stage were, what looked like, a four piece band with instruments playing a Beatles song. After the second song and into the third, I was wishing I had read a synopsis of this show beforehand because this was turning into a tribute band concert. However, the fourth song was ‘Twist and Shout’ and I, along with everyone else, was up on my feet dancing, singing and clapping to the music. And that was the tempo of the rest of the evening. The four guys on stage gave us a great time as each band member was easily recognised both audibly and visually.
They time warped us back to the sixties and we saw them from smartly dressed and groomed young lads of the early sixties to the Sgt Pepper years. As the music played news footage of hippies, mini-skirts, Martin Luther King Jr, TV adverts, the Moon landing et al was shown on the backdrop – all of which added to the ambience. To all intents and purposes, it was a tribute band concert BUT it was a great tribute band concert. The Beatles, the culture, the political and social history was so intertwined you felt that the Beatles created the 1960s. It was a great evening out listening to undoubtedly one of the best song writing partnerships of the 20thCentury.