LIVERPOOL BEATLE WEEK

Tuesday 29 August 2007

Liverpool's 800th Birthday Party at Williamson Square.
Denny Laine at The Cavern Back.
The best bands at The Cavern Club & Pub.

We go to Liverpool's 800th Birthday Party at Williamson Square...

Arnie - The Repeatles

THE REPEATLES. Today The City has invited four of the best bands to perform at Williamson Square to celebrate Liverpool's 800th Birthday! Very honorable for The Repeatles to be the band opening this magnificent afternoon. And they are from our homeland Sweden!
And yes! We got places right in front of the stage (again)! Enjoy the photos...

Jan - The Repeatles

Steve - The Reapetles

See Lisa and Sandy Sunshine dancing...

Lisa & Sandy Sunshine

Lisa & Sandy

Lisa & Sandy - so happy!

SANDY SUNSHINE (right in black). You must be The Repeatles fan No. 1! They have even written a beautiful song about you!

A good friend joined the band....

Hal Bruce - 'Pinball Wizard'

Jan, Hal & Arnie - 'Pinball Wizard'

HAL BRUCE. The very best acoustic artist at Beatle Week. What a surprise seeing you perform this hard-rocking classic - 'Pinball Wizard'.

Here's the amazing Repeatles setlist...

More guests...

Arnie, Jay (Instant Karma) & Jan

JAY (INSTANT KARMA). A great farewell! You really show how much you love to perform in Liverpool. And the audience just love you!

Time for the next great band...

Nube 9

Julián - Nube 9

Esteban & Fernado - Nube 9

Lucrecia (please help me with the other names.)

Lucrecia (a beautiful picture!)

Lucrecia - 'Dance Tonight'

Here's the beautiful audience....

Encore - 'Hey Jude'

NUBE 9. Wow! See you performing Paul's song 'Dance Tonight' from his latest CD was a highlight! You were one the very top bands this year! One more gig tonight...

And now! The best Rolling Stones Tribute in universe...

Tony & Les - Rocks Off

Stevie & Tony - Rocks Off

Tony - Rocks Off

Peter, Tony & Les - Rocks Off

Toggan & Stevie - Rocks Off

Les - Rocks Off

Les - Rocks Off

ROCKS OFF. Another fantastic gig! And you look so beautiful! The area just in front of the stage was crowded with professional photographers when you played! And this band comes also from Sweden! We're so proud! This will be a memorable Rocks Off day!  Two more gigs before we go to bed!

The afternoon at Williamson Square ended with The World's Top Tribute band...

Phil, Dennis & Steve - The Overtures

Phil & Dennis - The Overtures

Chris - The Overtures

Chris

Steve - The Overtures

Phil - The Overtures

The happy crowd - 'Daydream Believer'

THE OVERTURES (today without Jamie). You're the best! No one can play all these 60's hits with such power! Wow!

Time for the Main Act at The Cavern Back...

Denny Laine & Ringer

Denny Laine

Denny Laine - 'Go Now'

DENNY LAINE was the guy Paul McCartney joined up with for his first musical project following the break-up of The Beatles. Denny, Paul and Linda founded WINGS and went to be the most successful post-fabs venture. In 1964, he joined The Moody Blues and several groups later, in 1972, finally hooked up with the McCartneys forming Wings. Denny co-wrote many of Wing's songs with Paul, and recorded the band's most successful album 'Band On The Run' in Lagos, Nigeria. Denny is supported at Beatle Week by Ringer, who were Denny's official backing band in the early 90's. And what a great show we got tonight!

We go to The Cavern Pub...

Nube 9

The happy crowd - 'I'm The Walrus - Woooh!

Surprise guests enter stage...

Jan Britton Owen - 'Get Back'

The great crowd - 'Hey Jude'

NUBE 9. What a great Finale! Hope to see you in Liverpool again next year! You were one of the very best bands this year!

We go to The Cavern Front...

Jan & Pete - The Repeatles

Guests join The Repeatles at the stage...

Arnie, Jan & Tony (Rocks Off)

Arnie (The Repeatles) plus Tony & Stevie (Rocks Off)

Jan, Tony & Stevie

Jan, Arnie, Tony & Stevie

Arnie, Tony & Stevie

Arnie, David (The Tearaways) & Jan

Arnie, David & Jan

The amazing Repeatles set list

Next band (also from Sweden!) ROCKS OFF!!!

Tony - Rocks Off

Stevie - looking so beautiful!

Stevie - bottleneck! - 'Little Red Rooster'

Tony & Les - Rocks Off

Toggan - Rocks Off

Time for some guests to join on stage...

Tony, Fin (The Tearaways) & Les

Tony, Fin, Les and another happy guest

Stevie - Rocks Off

ROCKS OFF. Another breath-taking gig! Unbelievable! And we'll meet you soon again!!!

We go to The Cavern Pub...

Rodrigo, Léo, Geraldo & Leticia - Eletrika Barbarella

ELETRIKA BARBARELLA. Certainly the most sensational debut at Beatle Week 2007! You're such a great band! So powerful! Hope to see you in Liverpool again next year!

Hal Bruce

Some nice guests enter the stage...

The Repeatles, Hal & The Blackbirds

HAL BRUCE. You're such a nice person! And how well you sing and play! Your acoustic guitar is unsurpassed!

Time for the last gig with our Top Favorite Band...

Peter - Rocks Off

Les - Rocks Off

See the beautiful girls dancing...

Angie & Laurie

Angie & Laurie - genuine Rocks Off fans!

Stevie & Tony - Rocks Off

Stevie - Rocks Off

Laurie & Stevie

Les - fantastic lead guitar! 

Stevie - bottleneck again!

ROCKS OFF. Here we are at Beatle Week, and end up having a Rolling Stones Tribute Band as our top favorites! Totally crazy! But no wonder! You're such nice persons! And your performances were nothing but magic! Fantastic to stand right in front of the stage at ALL eight gigs. So the pictures turned out pretty well, don't you think?

Finally, a nice meeting...

Jay (Instant Karma) & Les (Rocks Off)

Many more great bands performed during Beatle Week...
This is just my best pictures of the bands and people we love the most.
"The love you take is equal to the love you make"
(Lennon-McCartney)

Thanks to Bill Heckle, Dave Jones, Ray Johnson, Ian and all others at Cavern City Tours, Rocks Off: Tony, Stevie, Toggan, Peter & Les, God Save The Queen, The Repeatles, The Overtures and all other wonderful Tribute Bands, happy fans, the nice people of Liverpool and off course all you wonderful friends, who attended these trips of a lifetime! Not the least my wife Ulla, not a Beatle-fan (almost, but she loves the Stones, Kinks, Queen etc). And who has shared these days of sweat and heat with me - and enjoyed it!

All photos, videos and text by Bengt Wärmlind, Sweden.

(The photos and videos may not be used without my permission.)

Don't use the low resolution pictures at the website for prints. 

High resolution originals (3072 X 2304 pixels,
ca 2.6 MB) are available if you ask me kindly. Much better for prints. I can mail some to you, if you've got broadband. And, if you use some picture anywhere, credits is always demanded.

End Of Beatle Week 2007