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Members: Brian Ambrose (Ringo), Steven Howard (Paul), Robbie Hughes (George) and Jay Murray (John).
Location: Liverpool, England
Website: www.themerseybeatles.com
Appearances: Liverpool Beatleweek 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Biography: (from the Beatleweek 2005 Programme)
Like the original Fab Four, The Mersey Beatles were all born in Liverpool and as Scousers through and through, they are very proud of their city's cultural history. The band formed in 1999, when school friends Steven Howard (Paul) and Brian Ambrose (Ringo) got together with Steven's cousin David and fellow aspiring musician Jason Murray (John). Just like their musical role models, the boys' early performances were around the social and cabaret clubs in their home city. The Mersey Beatles have since performed in many clubs where The Beatles themselves performed during the Sixties. The Mersey Beatles first took part in the festival in 1999, playing on a floating stage in Albert Dock.
In 2000 The Mersey Beatles became the first Beatles tribute to perform in Croatia, where their performance brought back scenes of real Beatlemania, and in 2004 they attended the first Australian Beatles Festival in Adelaide.
When Liverpool was chosen to be the European City of Culture in 2008, the Mersey Beatles were given the honour of being official city representatives and last year received national media coverage when they attended each of the three main political party annual conferences.
This year has seen a change in the original line-up with Robbie Hughes taking on the George role in time for a UK theatre tour. He describes himself as a really big Beatles fan and is no doubt looking forward to taking part in the largest Beatles Festival in the world!
The Mersey Beatles will once again be packing in the crowds at the Mathew Street Festival on the Beatles Stage on Monday… just a few streets away from where exactly 34 years earlier The Beatles were playing one of their Cavern Club lunchtime sessions.
Interview with The Mersey Beatles :: TWIL Issue Five, August 2001
| 16 October 2004 |
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Following last weeks appearance at the Labour Party Conference, The Mersey Beatles entertained the Conservative Party in Bournemouth this week. The BBC have a picture of the lads with Tory Party Leader Michael Howard which was a subject of the BBC Online News Magazine's Caption Competition. You can see the picture and the winning captions here. |
| 30 September 2004 |
| The Mersey Beatles have been receiving some national publicity this week after Cherie Blair joined them onstage! The Prime Minister's wife, who is a Liverpudlian herself, gave an impromptu performance of Twist and Shout with the band who were promoting Liverpool as European Capital of Culture in 2008 at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. There's more information here at Guardian.co.uk |
| 21 April 2004 |
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The episode of Bargain Hunt which The Mersey Beatles filmed back in January will be shown on BBC1 on 5th May 2004 at 7pm. |
| 19 January 2004 |
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The Mersey Beatles were filmed today for the cult daytime BBC TV programme 'Bargain Hunt'. The lads and the shows host David Dickinson were chased around the Mathew Street area of Liverpool by a class of 2nd year LIPA students. One of the students was Helen Douglas, a TWIL team member! Helen told us, "We had to pretend to be Beatlemaniacs and chase The Mersey Beatles and David Dickinson out of the Cavern Club and up Mathew Street. They also filmed us running outside LIPA, and chasing the boys onto the Magical Mystery Tour Bus!" The programme is scheduled for transmission on BBC1 sometime in April/May. |
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