Itchycoo Park

Itchycoo Park made their first appearance in Liverpool at the festival in 1998, where, under the name The Bootleg Rutles, they accompanied 'actual' Rutles, Neil Innes and John Halsey in the traditional Beatleweek-concluding Cavern Shows. It's not often that you find a tribute, tribute band, supporting a tribute band! (Well, apart from The Bootleg Beatles opening for Oasis, I guess!).

That first show at the Cavern was especially memorable for Jim Logie, Jim McNaught, Ronnie Davidson and Alex Fairley, and they recall working out the set list before the show with Neil and John and a brief acoustic rehearsal in the Cavern's kitchen!

Itchycoo Park have played at Beatleweek every year since that appearance, with the exception of 2001 when, as part of the first Dundee Beatles Festival, they trod in the footsteps of The Beatles and gave a show in Caird Hall, where forty years earlier the four virtually unknown guys from Liverpool had played. Within a week of the show their pictures would be on the front page of every newspaper, under the headline 'Beatlemania'.

As well as performing a variety of 60's hits, including their namesake Small Faces song, the band have released a CD of original material under the name The Colors, entitled 'dayglo'. One song from it was voted one of the top forty tracks of 2002 on a web-based radio station, after only two weeks release. You can learn more about The Colors at their website: www.thecolors.co.uk

Last year Itchycoo Park really helped us out, fulfilling the unenviable task of playing three consecutive sets in the infamously warm Cavern Pub, filling in for absent bands. Their original allotted time of 45 minutes became three and a half hours and yet the band carried on.

And as Jim Logie says, "You never know when a gig is going to become a concert in Liverpool!"