An Audience With Some Other Guys

Silverdale’s Gaskell Hall will be rocking when it celebrates 60 years of Merseybeat on Saturday 26th April with songs and stories from the nine-strong cast of ‘An Audience with Some Other Guys.’ This includes four original artists who were playing Liverpool venues throughout the 1960s. Pete Maclaine, original front man of ‘The Dakotas,’ together with Pete Maclaine from ‘The Clan,’ Tony Coates from ‘The Merseybeats,’ Ian Goodall from ‘Tony D and The Shakeouts,’ and the legendary ‘Riot Squad’ drummer Alan Noone, combine 300 years of experience to bring authentic stories and great live music to the show. The performance recently sold out at the Shakespeare North Theatre in Prescot, Liverpool.

In 2013, Manfred Kuhlmann published an anthology of bands that were part of the Merseybeat era. Together with his previous publication ‘Beat Waves Across the Mersey,’ Manfred catalogued more than 750 Merseybeat groups in over 900 pages. Alan Noone, playing with ‘The Riot Squad’ in 1962, features on the cover of the revised 2021 version of ‘Some Other Guys.’ It was his idea to create this show to pay homage to the Merseybeat musicians, ensuring that they may not be forgotten.

To uniquely bring a little local interest to the Silverdale show, the producers have invited acclaimed ‘Beatles Boy’ Logan Paul Murphy, from Workington, to perform as a guest alongside the originals. He will also share why he, at just 18 years of age, believes the Merseybeat sounds are so important to young music lovers today. They say that if you remember the 60s, you weren’t there. Here is an opportunity to experience, or remember, the music that changed the world!

Tickets for ‘An Audience with Some Other Guys’ are available from this link.