Saturday, 16th September, 1961 The Beatles played another in their series of regular Saturday night gigs at the Aintree Institute.

 The September issue of the internet music magazine Ear Candy contains a fascinating article and analysis of the bootleg track A Piece Of Mind / The Candle Burns. The track has been known about since the mid 1970s but this is the first real in depth analysis of it that tries to answer if it [...]

The BBC Reports that Liverpool’s “Casbah Club” has been given a Grade II listed building status after a recommendation from the English Heritage organization. The Casbah is the club built by Pete Best’s mother Mona in the basement of their home in West Derby where the second incarnation of The Quarry Men (John Lennon, Paul [...]

Friday, 15th September, 1961 The Beatles played three gigs today, opening with their regular lunch time spot at The Cavern. In the evening they headed across the Mersey to the Wirral peninsula to play at the Groverner Ballroom in Liscard, a venue they had not played since February. This was followed by an engagement back [...]

Thursday, 14th September, 1961 The Beatles perform at the Town Hall in Litherland. The gig is also announced in today’s issue of Mersey Beat which proclaims that The Beatles will perfom at the venue “every Thursday.” This week’s issue of Mersey Beat (cover dated September 14-28) also includes a column entitled “Around and About” written [...]

Wednesday, 13th September, 1961 The Beatles played another lunch time gig at The Cavern followed by an evening perfomance at the same venue alongside The Remo Four and The Pressmen.

On sunday December 17th at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto the Classic Albums Live concert series will perform its most ambitious concert to date: Every Beatles studio album back-to-back. “We expect the event to run a solid 12 hours,” says Craig Martin, founder and producer of the Classic Albums Live series, now in its [...]

Did the late Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, ever play on a Beatles track? This excellent and extensively researched article at the Neptune Pink Floyd web magazine charts the interactions between Syd Barrett and The Beatles between 1966 and 1969 concluding that while it hasn’t been 100% proven that Syd did contribute to a [...]

Monday, 11th September, 1961 The Beatles started another week at The Cavern with a lunch time engagement.

This week’s video post is for Mike in Montreal – a good friend, and a big supporter of Blog Me Do. The clip is from the Swedish TV show “Drop In” filmed on October 30th, 1963.