A four day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Dublin performances by The Beatles will take place on November 7th through to Sunday 10th November 2013.
Featuring at the event are John Lennon’s Original Quarrymen who will play on Saturday 9th November, alongside an afternoon Q&A with Tony Clayton-Lea in the Gresham Hotel and a live performance in The Grand Social that evening. If you don’t know them, they each played in John Lennon’s first group, The Quarrymen.
International tribute bands including Revolver, The Beatelles, Johnny and the Moondogs and The Choking Smokers. You can also catch hit show Get Back – The Story of The Beatles; The Newspaper Taxi Men; Beatles for Sale; and The Rockets. A number of contemporary bands and performers will interpret some of their favourite Beatle songs, including Vyvienne Long, O Emperor and The Gandhis.
Festival tickets are on sale from 12 noon on Thursday 8 August 2013 at www.entertainment.ie/
The Crème Tangerine early-bird ticket covers: (Press Release information below)
- Opening Chords | Thursday 7 November in the Gresham Hotel, the cast from the hit show Get Back – The Story of The Beatles performing the original set of songs that The Beatles played at the Adelphi Cinema exactly 50 years previously; Vyvienne Long and Jon Ward with evocative Beatle covers; and many audience members who were at The Beatles gig in the Adelphi on Thursday 7 November 1963,
- Fab Friday | Friday 8 November in the Grand Social, with two live stages and a third area for art and memorabilia, DJ Jacqui Carroll (Ready, Steady, Go!), and bands including Revolver, The Beatelles, Beatles for Sale, The Gandhis and The Rockets,
- Sadie Saturday | Saturday 9 November in the Grand Social, with two live stages and a third area for art and memorabilia, DJ Rob Smith (Hot Press) and bands including John Lennon’s Original Quarrymen, The Choking Smokers, Johnny and the Moondogs, O Emperor and The Louisiana 6,
- Strawberry Sunday | Sunday 10 November in The Workman’s Club, the Festival finale gig featuring Johnny and the Moondogs and Revolver.
Among other highlights:
- Journalist and author Colm Keane, author of The Beatles: Irish Concerts in a public interview,
- Internationally acclaimed Irish Beatle artist Georgina Flood drawing a new Beatles portrait live,
- Short plays at lunchtime – Lennon v McCartney and John Lennon’s Last Day – by Stephen Kennedy,
- The Ultimate Beatles Table Quiz which will entertain everyone from radio sing-a-longers to fevered fanatics,
- Record, vintage, fashion and memorabilia fairs.