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<td width="100%"><img border="0" src="../../beatleweek/history/images/beat_00.jpg" align="left" width="259" height="365"><font color="#666666"><b><font face="MS Sans Serif" size="2">Twentieth
Annual Beatle Convention in Liverpool.<br>
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</b><font face="MS Sans Serif" size="2">Thursday 24th - Tuesday 29th August 2000</font></font>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666">I’d
like to take the opportunity of welcoming
you to Liverpool, whether it is your first
visit or indeed one of many visits to this
wonderful city. We have spent the best
part of a year in organising the events
and are confident that Beatle Week 2000
will be the best yet, certainly believe
that this is the strongest musical line-up
we’ve ever had. It has been another busy
year for Cavern City Tours. It began with
the news, just after last year’s
Convention that we had been awarded £3
million towards the building of the Hard
Day’s Night Hotel’, which was
obviously a time for celebration. The
party didn’t last long though, as the
news was followed up with a phone call to
say that all the grant money had been used
up and that the pockets were empty. We
were invited to re-apply and are expecting
the news literally any day now’ We have
our fingers crossed that by the time you
read this, the new announcement will have
been made. At the very latest we will know
the outcome in mid September and we are
quietly confident that we will get a
positive result and that the hotel will be
open by Easter 2002. Whatever the outcome
we’d like to place on record an
appreciation for the patience shown by
Shannon, who has been commissioned to
complete all of the artwork in the hotel.
It has been very frustrating but it is by
far the biggest project we have ever been
involved with and it will be worth it in
the end. On the morning we heard the bad
news about the hotel grant, we were just
about to depart for London to attend
Paul’s launch party at the Equinox in
Leicester Square. It was a great evening
as we mingled with Bill Wyman, </font><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666">Dave
Gilmour and of course Paul himself. Karen
our Secretary even got a kiss on the cheek
from Paul. What a night — or so we
thought! We didn’t really know at that
time just what would be in store for us a
few weeks later. Of course I am referring
to Paul’s shock decision to come back
home to the Cavern Club to play one more
time. Now that was a great night!<br>
I’ve been asked a number of times to
reveal the ‘inside’ story but I’ve
saved it for the Convention. It will be
really strange being a guest speaker at my
own Convention, but it seems the perfect
place to tell one or two anecdotes. I’ll
be joined by Chris Hall who of course
played accordion on ‘Brown Eyed Handsome
Man’. It goes without saying that it was
the highlight of my year (or any year for
that matter). Another highlight of the
year was the number of great bands who
have played the Cavern, including Wishbone
Ash and Paul Rodgers (Free) who
unsolicited called his Cavern gig “his
best club gig in over thirty years in the
business”. Hundreds of bands have played
the Cavern over the last year and there is
a great buzz about the place, especially
since we have installed two new sound
systems into the Club. Much of the credit
must go to Alex McKechnie who organises
the live music programme at the Club. Alex
incidentally makes his farewell appearance
with his band ‘Up and Running’ at the
Mathew Street Festival on Monday, as he
concentrates in the future on his role as
Entertainment’s Manager at the Cavern</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666"><b>Changes</b><br>
It must be noted that there are three
changes to the original brochure. The
Quarrymen from Ireland will not perform as
stated in the brochure and on the tickets.
Apologies for any misunderstanding but
Bill jumped the gun and included them
before everything had been fully agreed.
The positive news is that they have been
replaced by an equally great band from
Devon, The Fab Beatles. Another change is
that the tickets for the Unplugged
festival features a picture of none other
than Laurence Gilmour. Unfortunately for
us, but not for Laurence, he recently
moved to Pittsburgh, USA, where he will
live and work for the next two</font><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666">
years. We wish him and his family all the
best and look forward to the day when we
can welcome him back. It’s a case of au
revoir not goodbye.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666">A
couple of advertised changes to this
year’s Beatle Week are the inaugural
Cavern Pub Festival and the Unplugged
Festival at The Adeiphi.<br>
From Thursday August 24th onwards there
will be live music every day and night at
the Cavern Pub and of course entrance is
totally free. Most of the bands appearing
during Beatle Week will play at the Cavern
Pub at some point during the week. Most of
the bands will also perform at the
‘Unplugged Festival’ which will take
place immediately after the Convention on
Sunday. There’s an opportunity for the
fans to sing at the ‘Unplugged
Festival’ —just ask the bands. There
will, be unplugged stages in Jenny’s
Bar, Cromptons, The American Bar and
Fridays. It should be fun —and something
we hope to repeat in the future.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666"><b>Other
things to do</b><br>
I defy anybody to do everything over the
long weekend, but if you are up to it,
there are many other events and things to
do during Beatle Week. Beatles Story is
always worth a visit and for those who
have been before, it’s worth going again
just to see the piano on which John
composed ‘Imagine’.<br>
The piano will remain at the Beatles Story
till John’s birthday on October 9th.
Beatles Story also houses a great art
exhibition featuring the work of Stu
Sutcliffe. There is also a great Pop Art
exhibition in Liverpool’s Tate Gallery
in the Albert Dock, It has been put
together by Peter Blake, he of Sergeant
Pepper fame.<br>
The show features among other things a
collage of John’s from his student days
which has seldom seen the light of day and
a brand new collage by Paul, who actually
attended the ‘~ Opening Night on April
6th. Paul also provided an 18-
minute sound collage called ‘Plastic
Beatle’ which plays at the exhibition,
and was subsequently re-mixed by the Welsh
group ‘Super Furry Animals’ — Good
stuff eh! Don’t forget the John Lennon
Art Gallery above the Beatles Shop and the
magical Mystery Tour departing from
Beatles Story at 1 2.3Opm and 3pm every
day. If you don’t get to see it all, why
don’t you come back October 7th -
October 9th for the celebrations to mark
what would have been John Lennon’s 60th
birthday.<br>
Ask at the Cavern City Tours desk for
details. Incidentally the desk will be in
the foyer of the Adelphi Hotel and open at
the following times:<br>
•Thursday 10am to 7pm;<br>
• Friday 10am to 7pm; ‘Saturday 10am
to 7pm;<br>
• Sunday, Cavern City Tours will have a
stand in the Convention throughout the
day;<br>
• Monday 10am to 2pm:<br>
‘Tuesday 10am to 2pm. <br>
Don’t forget our very own Sports bar and
restaurant (De Coubertins), open early
till late on each day and situated In
North John Street around the corner from
the Cavern Club. Indeed, Paul McCartney
himself staged his post-gig party there
after his Cavern performance, so it has
its own Beatle heritage. The Cavern is
open all weekend with free entry by
showing your hotel key card and of course
the Pub also features free live music</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666">Finally
a plug for two related projects. A big
thank you to the Brazilian band ‘Abbey
Road’ for the use of their photograph on
the front cover of this programme and on
the official T-shirts for Beatle Week
2000. What a great image. Thanks guys!<br>
A big plug for conventioneers Jo Rishton
and Nina, who have a new project called
‘The Word is Love’ — a fanzine for
all of the Beatle bands around the world
highlighting the ones that appear at the
Liverpool Beatle Week. So instead of
seeing the Overtures once a year or
wanting to know if Diego of the Beats has
egg on toast for his breakfast, you can
find all of this out by e-mailing Jo and
Nina. Seriously though it is a great way
of staying in touch with your favourite
band, and the girls will be able to tell
you about the bands forthcoming gigs etc.
A great idea and one we fully support.
Best of luck girls! You can reach them on <a href="http://www.thewordislove.com/" target="_blank">www.angelfire.com/popthewordislove</a><br>
Hopefully one of the first things the
girls can do is to review our album which
has taken three years to record in the
Abbey Road Studios featuring, Wishing,
Tunel Do Tempo, The Beats, Instant Karma,
Lenny Pane, Hard Night’s Day, Bob
Barley’s Banned on the Run, Fab Faux,
Gary Gibson, Haré Georgeson, Aleph,
Ringer, Clube Big Beatles and the
Overtures. An album of original songs - it
should be available by Christmas,
engineered and mixed by Will Schillinger
the leg-end from New York City. (See the
way I got a plug in for Cavern City Tours
right at the end. Tacky eh!)</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#666666"><b>Have
fun, get hoarse, make friends. Cheers,
Bill, Dave, George, Sieve, Ray, and
Karen </b></font>
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