Our First Cavern Club Performance – Photos
There are hundreds, if not thousands of photos of us performing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. After all, we played 100 shows there!
However, this set of photographs is especially dear to us – they are from our very first performance at the Cavern Club (and Cavern Pub across the street).
In late 2013, when we were still living in Austria, we got booked for three performances as part of the “International Pop-Overthrow” Festival in Liverpool and London. The shows in Liverpool were going to be at the Cavern Club so we booked flights straight away!
The Cavern calls itself “the most famous club in the world” and it’s very hard to argue with that statement. Not only has it been the “birthplace” of the Beatles (or at the very least, their “gym” as a live act), it has also hosted so many other incredible bands from the 50’s up until today. In short – it’s a legendary venue.
In the 1970’s, due to some appalling city council decisions, the original Cavern club got filled in to make room for the Merseyside underground rail loop. But a rebuild got created only a few meters down the same road about a decade later, partly built with the original Cavern bricks. Even though, strictly speaking, it is not the original Cavern Club anymore, the new club is still a pilgrimage site for tens of thousands of Beatles and music fans from all around the world.
Naturally for us, it was a huge deal playing our first performance there in early 2014. Between the time the booking had come in and the actual show, we had unexpectedly moved to Liverpool. So what was supposed to be “a trip to England to play some shows” turned into “a performance down the road in our new home”. We’d never been so happy to cancel flights!
After our move we were just beginning to put a new live band together and had already met local bassist Jason Griffiths who played the first Cavern Club show with us. However, we still flew in our Austrian drummer Philipp Wolf with whom we had a cracking “final show together”. But while he went back home we stayed on British soil … had we just become a UK Band? 😉
We were beaming for days after the show! Luckily, a little while later, we could do it all again and again and again (x 100) once we started our weekly residency there.
I know that was an exciting night. Pictures are great. Thank you for sharing that night with us. I can only imagine the electric atmosphere in the Cavern Club while you were playing. Sweet memories that dreams are made of! And, you still continue to make dreams and create magic. Much Love and Thanks
Thanks for sharing these photos that reveal the sheer joy and excitement of all concerned in this momentous and obviously thrilling occasion for you. You continue to shine brightly as your artistic talent evolves in this amazing musical journey you are on. Thanks so much for bringing us along with you!
Wow, I can feel how incredibly exciting that first performance at the Cavern must have been from just reading your commentary in this post, and looking at the photos the great vibe and energy just comes clearly through. I can feel the whoosh of Lisa’s guitar come swinging down between frames 21 and 22! It looks like those familiar and now famous guitars, Mona’s Rickenbacker 350v63 and Lisa’s Gretsch Duo Jet, were right there with you from the start. I can see why these two are especially special instruments for you both. Now is John Lennon Mona’s favorite Beatle?….. and I wonder what Lisa wrote on the Cavern ceiling brick. Really enjoyed these photos, thanks so much!
Awesome stuff… I’d be dwarfed for sure in that place… Need to stand on a table or chair to see you on stage as standing on floor unless I got lucky and was flat out centre in front of stage(I’m a tad shy under 5 feet tall)… Nice pix collection… Indeed… Kodak Keepers near and dear to your heart of a Milestone music career moment in time for you…. MLTBuzzing Groovy…. Thankyou for sharing these awesome pix…. Feels like I was there… ( In spirit I was…)
Thanks so much for sharing these important photos from such a landmark event in your musical journey. I still find it incredible that your entire family would pick up and relocate itself to another country just like that. What an awesome act of love, support and well founded confidence in you both. Hope you ladies had an absolutely wonderful 25th birthday!!!
WOW! GREAT photos! 5 years have went by already! That must have been SO COOL for you lads and lassies to experience! Now we need a video of the whole show of coarse! THANK YOU!