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Cavern Beatles - No 8, Pershore

OKAY, so we chaps may not be able to twist so low these days, and the ladies may be more likely to cultivate wisteria than hysteria but boy, did we baby-boomers have a great time on Saturday night. Number 8 was rocking to the sound of our youth.

If there is a better Beatles tribute band, then you'd better believe in ghosts. The impersonations are uncanny and the Beatles sound recreated to perfection. Then, of course, there is the catalogue - hit after hit, memory after memory.

For one night we're allowed to forget that we're mums and dads with mortgages and creaky bits. From the first chord, we're teleported back to those heady days of hope and pointy shoes when wide-eyed schoolkids and tentative teenagers were catapulted from post-war austerity into the new culture of youth. As cultural icons, the Beatles stand on top of this era like gods on a mountain and this reincarnation is a fitting tribute to their status.

Was this a fab night out? Yeh, yeh, yeh.

REVIEW BY STEVE EVANS.