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"I closed my eyes and I thought I was back at the Star club"
Horst Fascher (Star club Manager & German Promoter)

"The Pete Best band always sell out at the Cavern. The fans just can't get enough"
Dave Jones (Cavern Club)

"A top quality band with a top quality show"
Eric McDow (Canadian Promoter)

I have never seen a Japanese audience dance in the aisles. They did with Pete Best"
Tetsuo Hamada (Japanese Promoter)

"The Pete Best Band are fantastic, just fabulous"
Rolando Giambelli (Italian Promoter)

"It really was Best Of The Beatles"
Heikki Lehtonnen (Finnish Promoter)

They Were awesome. The crowds just wanted the show to go on all night"
Robin Henning (USA Promoter)

"They were cheeky, cocky, funny and great showmen"
Charlie Fuentes (Argentinian Promoter)

"What Lovely guys. The audience just warmed to them"
Bill Walters (Australian Promoter)

It was fifty years ago today...Buy Tickets

The Beatles performed their first concert in the United Kingdom on the 17th of December 1960. The concert was in Liverpool at the Casbah Coffee Club. Another first for the Casbah, The Beatles true beginnings. The Beatles returned from Hamburg (Some returned some were kicked out) George Harrison had to come back. The German authorities had realised he was under age to be performing in the night club's of Hamburg, Germany. It may corrupt the poor boy. They had a 10.00pm curfew for people under 18, which George was. Only being allowed to play to 10pm and then not be allowed to join the lads for after show fun left George with no other alternative but to return home to Liverpool (1 down 4 to go), leaving John, Paul Pete and Stuart with Tony Sheridan playing at the Top Ten Club. Back in Liverpool the home bound Beatles were floating, doing nothing. Pete spoke to his mother Mo. He told her The Beatles got really really good in Hamburg. He asked if she would throw them a lifeline by booking them and seeking bookings for them. Mo agreed. Pete wrote to John and Stuart. John replied, he was coming home. Stu replied, he would come home , but not until January. He wanted to spend Christmas and New Year with his girlfriend Astrid Kirchner. Pete asked Chas Newby The Blackjacks Bass player if would he stand in for Stu. Chas agreed and a date was set for their first date in Liverpool. Their first date in the UK. The 17th of December 1960 at the Casbah Coffee Club, but there is a problem. The Beatles have no equipment. It is still in Hamburg. Mo books Gene Day and the Jango Beats to play (AKA Earl Preston and the TT's). Will they lend their equipment to The Beatles. They agree.

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17th of December 1960.

The Casbah is jammed to the rafters. The posters on the walls state "The Beatles Direct From Hamburg Germany" will be playing. The Casbah crowd are excited. The Casbah has gone international. There is a German group coming to play.
Gene Day and the Jango Beats performed. They're a good group (Who later became Earl Preston and the TT's) and they are well received. It's time for The Beatles.

John, Paul and George walk in and the Casbah and crowd aren't too pleased. These are the guys from The Quarrymen. They weren't very good and they are not German. Chas Newby walks in. It's Chas from The Blackjacks. They were so so and he's not German. Pete walks in. That's Pete he lives and works here and like Chas he used to play for The Blackjacks and he is definitely not German. People want their money back. Where is the promised German group? The posters in the club mention a German group, i.e. "The Fabulous Beatles Direct From Hamburg Germany". What's going on? Where are they?

The reply from Mo was simple. Nobody had said The Beatles were German. The posters had stated DIRECT  from Germany, which they are. They haven't played anywhere else. So no refunds. Go and watch The Beatles. The Casbah crowd weren't happy. Disgruntled they went into the band room to watch five guys they already knew who were now playing as The Beatles, who weren't German.

The Beatles took the stage in front of an uninterested crowd and began to play.

"I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary" and so on and so forth.

Casbah crowd jaws agape wondered what had happened to the five guys they already knew who now called themselves The Beatles and weren't German. They were sensational. The Casbah crowd had never heard the like. The place went nuts and Beatle mania began.

And the story continued, but were talking about the 17th of December 1960, which we are celebrating and recreating on the 17th of December 2010 at the Casbah Coffee Club.

Friday the 17th of December 2010 (50 years to the day)

• Best of the Beatles - The Pete Best Band

• Earl Preston and the TT's

There are ONLY 150 tickets going on sale for the show.

They are £20.00 pounds each. ( £1.99 P&P)