The Cavern Club
Address: 10 Mathew Street Liverpool, L2 6RE
‘The most famous club in the World’ the advertising boasts. That maybe so, who knows. Personally, I was always a big fan of the Ritzy in Bromborough, however, sadly that no longer exists. Given that the real ‘home’ of the Beatles was down the road, and has been re-built here, maybe the Ritzy can follow suit…
Anyway, despite it’s fame, this place had bizarrely escaped our radar before. For some reason, although the doors are generally open most lunchtimes, we’d got it into our heads that it was just open for tourists to have a nose, and that the bar wouldn’t be open. Today though, after a visit to the Grapes to verify that our framed picture had been removed (yes folks it was in the Grapes, and was up there for 3 months. There’ll be another opportunity to see us in vests coming to another boozer soon..), we decided to head in as they were advertising live music.
My own recollections of this place are of miserable evenings, spent crammed in twenty feet underground, sweating like a rapist, whilst - again bizarrely - this was my ‘born and bred’ scouse colleague’s first ever trip down the Cavern Club stairs.
We ambled down the stairwell and discovered to our delight that the bar was indeed open. It was busy too.
After purchasing our Britney’s (in plastic pint pots), we took up a standing spec to watch the live act. My colleague actually took a video, which maybe attached to this blog, but the local lad performing was actually quite good. It was nice that he wasn’t just knocking out Beatles tunes too. They can over do it in these parts.
There were a good hundred or so patrons in the house, and I would guess that the vast majority were tourists. Certainly we were the only blokes in suits, until one particularly special chap came in and wandered and jigged about on his own with a bottle of Bud.
One thing that I’ve never noticed on previous visits, was that the brick walls and ceilings are covered in rather lame graffiti, was consisted pretty much of peoples names and quite a few bits of EFC and LFC nonsense.
We enjoyed our visit so much that we actually stayed for 2 in here, which given we’d had one in the Grapes, was pretty wild for a Thursday.
With the Mathew St festival coming up, we felt we’d done our bit without the necessity to come back at the weekend when all the boozers will be horribly packed and you’re forced to trudge the streets with lukewarm cans of lager in the name of entertainment.
Price time -
Guinness & Fosters £6.40
