What were the highlights, lowlights, delights and twilights at this year's Liverpool Beatle Week?

Highlight for me was Gavin's solo George show at the Adelphi main stage, wonderful, meaningful, and lovely to have Gavin 'back where he belongs' with a super band to back him. Loved it.

My personal low light had to be involuntarily participating in an impromptu performance of 'why don't we do it in the road' !!

but performance wise, had to be the blonde female singer from 'Back from the USSR' I'm sorry, she has a great voice, and I know the fellas loved her other not inconsiderable assets, but she should not be singing Beatles, just didnt work for me. Didnt like rest of the band much either.

Pat. Hope you're feeling better. Get well soon {{hugs}}. You'll pleased to know that you are now BW's new Green Cross Code mascot (which either makes you a squirrel or Darth Vader ). Everytime one of our group went to cross the road without checking the lights, we all screamed in unison "No, come back, look what happend to Pat"

Highlights:
Best Bands: 4!, Merseybeat Argentina, The Aspreys, All You Need Is
Love, Overturs, Rocks Off, Ringer, Instant Karma, Repeatles, Tearaways,
Eletrika Barbarella, Back From The USSR (nice to see such fab women
singing "Helter Skelter") .

Best Shows: Pepperland (those stilts! and I'll never listen
to "Strawberry Fields" in quite the same way again!), Sir Frankie Crisp
doing Brianwashed (us "Georgie" girls in the front were all in tears at
the end), Tony Skeggs Hall of Fame (looking forward to voting next
year!), VIP party on Monday night (with Ringer, Repeatles, Hal Bruce's
Summer Of Love) and the Overtures' British Invasion.

Fave Beatle songs: She's So Heavy by 4!, "...Monkey" by All You Need Is
Love,

Song Most Heard: Golden Slumbers/The End

Best non-Beatle Songs: Do It Again by Ringer, Whole Lotta Love by All
You Need Is Love.

Best non-Beatle Moment: Searching for Superlambannas.

Low-Lights: Fab 4, Seeing the cranes taking the Superlambannas away

Well for me, the highlight of Tearaways Week was the headline band...
Oh sorry, you're talking about Beatle Week, aren't you!?

I did manage to see a few bands other than the Tearaways, surprisingly. I loved Gav's set and 4! (FOUR!) too. The Pearlies All-Nighter was fun too.

The Pacfic Road Wirral venue was fab, but far too big to be one of four that afternoon. When you factor in that around half of the conventioneers won't bother making the trip, then divide the rest across four venues, it really doesn't work. Plus the shows always run too late so people leave early in order to get back to the hotel, eat and get ready for the evening show. I know eating is fairly low on my to-do list at BW, but CCT never seem to factor time for eating into their schedules! I feel bad for bands who get the 6pm sets...
Pacific Road would make a great venue for a solo years show or similar though.

Other than herding Californian's, my week mostly consisted of lots of chatting to friends. And drinking lager shandy. And actually getting some sleep. All in all, a pretty great Beatle Week!!

Nina

Apart from really enjoying the tearaways. I loved seeing American English + The Fab 4 again. Also being from Liverpool I think we tend to take bands like The Blue Meanies + The Merseybeatles for granted They both did us proud on the Derby Square stage on Monday. Highlight The Tearaways Lowlight Tuesday night going home when its all over