The Merseybeats

10 Sep 2023

Cavern Club

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The Merseybeats return to the Cavern to re-create the shows they performed there in the 1960’s.

The Merseybeats emerged from the Liverpool Mersey Beat scene in the early 1960s, performing at The Cavern Club along with the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and all the other great Mersey Beat bands.

Originally called the Mavericks, Tony Crane and Billy Kinsley formed their first band in late 1960 and became the Pacifics in September 1961. They were renamed the Mersey Beats in February 1962 by Bob Wooler, MC at the Cavern Club. Later in April 1962, they became the Merseybeats. By now Crane and Kinsley had joined up with guitarist Aaron Williams and drummer John Banks.