The Quarrymen live: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
The Quarrymen performed at Mona Best’s Casbah Coffee Club on seven consecutive Saturdays between August and October 1959. This was […]
The Quarrymen performed at Mona Best’s Casbah Coffee Club on seven consecutive Saturdays between August and October 1959. This was […]
Following their success performance on the opening night of the Casbah Club, the Quarrymen were booked for a Saturday night
29 August 1959 was the opening night of the Casbah Coffee Club, a new social club for teenagers, based in
The Quarrymen performed at this venue on just one occasion. As with their 1 January performance at Wilson Hall, it
This was the last known performance by the Quarrymen at Wilson Hall. Unlike the previous three, it wasn’t promoted by
Although The Quarrymen had few formal engagements between March 1958 and the end of the year, they did perform often
Following their audition for Carroll Levis’ TV Star Search in October 1958, Johnny and the Moondogs were invited back to
Although the Quarrymen had entered the competition the previous year without success, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison travelled
The Quarrymen recorded two songs at Phillips Sound Recording Services, a home studio in Liverpool, on 12 July 1958. It
This picture of John Lennon with friend and Quarrymen manager Nigel Walley was uncovered by the BBC during research for
The Morgue Skiffle Cellar was an illegal club held in the basement of a large Victorian house at 25 Oakhill
The first colour photograph of The Quarrymen was taken at the Liverpool wedding reception of Paul McCartney’s cousin Ian Harris
George Harrison claimed the first time he saw the Quarrymen was at the Wilson Hall, opposite the bus depot in
The Quarrymen’s first performance at the Cavern Club with Paul McCartney took place on 24 January 1958.
The Quarrymen’s first live engagement of 1958 was their third at the New Clubmoor Hall, a Conservative Club in Liverpool’s
This was the Quarrymen’s second of four performances at Wilson Hall in Liverpool’s Garston district, one of the venues run
The Quarrymen returned to the New Clubmoor Hall in Norris Green, Liverpool, less than a month after they first played
A somewhat bizarre booking for the nascent Quarrymen: they performed two raucous sets for the social club of Liverpool’s Stanley
This was the first time the Quarrymen played at this notoriously rough venue in the Garston district of Liverpool.