Cavern Club - The Most Frequented Pub in Liverpool

We arrived in Liverpool last month, we’ll be here until November. Since arriving, we’ve heard about Cavern Club from roughly every.single person we’ve met and every.single person we haven’t met yet plus all of their friends and all of their enemies have said something about it too. Cabbies, waitresses, the dude who cut my hair last week, everyone:

“Make sure you see Cavern Club before you leave Liverpool.” “Have you been to Cavern yet?” “You don’t want to miss the Cavern Club.”

The Cavern Club is a warehouse cellar turned music venue on January 16th, 1957. Their headliner that evening was The Merseysippi Jazz Band from Liverpool - Merseyside.

Eight months later, on July 31st, 1957, Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group performed at Cavern Club along with their drummer, Richard Starkey. The following year, Richard Starkey, who would later become Ringo Starr, began drumming with Quarry Men, a band led by a man named John Lennon. The Quarry Men made their debut appearance at Cavern Club on August 7th, 1957.

On January 24th, 1958, the Quarry Men performed again at Cavern Club. It was during this performance they introduced their newest band member to the audience, someone who had never performed at Cavern Club—a young singer and song-writer named Paul McCartney.

On Saturday, October 11th, 1958, a performer named Lonnie Donegan said that was the first time he’d seen The Beatles perform together as a band and, on February 9th, 1961, The Beatles were formed.

The Beatles made 292 appearances at Cavern Club between 1961 and 1963 when they made their final performance on August 6th. They recorded She Loves You exactly one month later and, by the end of the year, The Beatles would begin their very first American tour and the rest is #history.

Well, we finally made it over there yesterday. Cavern Club is located at 10 Matthew Street in Liverpool, England. Matthew Street is a short, cobblestone road, alley type of walk where vehicle traffic is prohibited. There’s a handful of pubs on Matthew Street, each with live rock n roll playing from inside, all of the local college kids are hanging out, and the nostalgia is amazing.

This city loves The Beatles. They’re loved most everywhere in the world, they’re just loved a little more in Liverpool—their home. You should see the memorabilia around here, everywhere you look is Beatles. “Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.” I took several pictures on our way through town, en route to Cavern Club, this is what we saw—enjoy the rest of your weekend.