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http://www.thesessionslive.com/the-show/
I went to see this in Brighton last night and it will be touring the UK and Europe as an event for the next 6 weeks or so. If you're in any way, shape or form a Beatles fan, I would heartily recommend you go and see it (Manchester Arena is on May 8th).
It's the creation of the Fab Four's original sound engineer, Geoff Emerick, who worked for George Martin at Abbey Road studios, and whilst in essence a tribute act, it's at once so much more than that. By using the device of setting the stage up as an exact replica of Studio 2 at Abbey Road, they've produced a show whose stated aim is to replicate the Beatles songs precisely as they were recorded at the time, with the musicians having clearly put in hundreds of hours of practice to mimic playing styles down to a 'T'. The studio gimmick also then allows them to involve session musicians and orchestras just as the Beatles did, and so the show is able to include songs that you'd very rarely see any tribute act attempt (in no particular order A day in the life, And I love her, Tomorrow never knows, Because, She's leaving home, Norwegian Wood, Within you and without you, For no-one, Julia, I am the walrus, All you need is love, In my life, Goodnight and Eleanor Rigby all feature, as well as the more obvious hits).
Anyway, they worked their way through about 40 songs chronologically from Love me do to 'The End' sequence off Abbey Road over the course of 2 and a half hours, and the guy playing McCartney, who looked a bit like Peter Kay, was outstandingly good, to the point that the versions of Penny Lane, She's leaving home, Helter Skelter and The Fool on the hill were virtually indistinguishable from the originals. He also did something I've not seen before in playing guitar right handed and bass left handed
I went to see this in Brighton last night and it will be touring the UK and Europe as an event for the next 6 weeks or so. If you're in any way, shape or form a Beatles fan, I would heartily recommend you go and see it (Manchester Arena is on May 8th).
It's the creation of the Fab Four's original sound engineer, Geoff Emerick, who worked for George Martin at Abbey Road studios, and whilst in essence a tribute act, it's at once so much more than that. By using the device of setting the stage up as an exact replica of Studio 2 at Abbey Road, they've produced a show whose stated aim is to replicate the Beatles songs precisely as they were recorded at the time, with the musicians having clearly put in hundreds of hours of practice to mimic playing styles down to a 'T'. The studio gimmick also then allows them to involve session musicians and orchestras just as the Beatles did, and so the show is able to include songs that you'd very rarely see any tribute act attempt (in no particular order A day in the life, And I love her, Tomorrow never knows, Because, She's leaving home, Norwegian Wood, Within you and without you, For no-one, Julia, I am the walrus, All you need is love, In my life, Goodnight and Eleanor Rigby all feature, as well as the more obvious hits).
Anyway, they worked their way through about 40 songs chronologically from Love me do to 'The End' sequence off Abbey Road over the course of 2 and a half hours, and the guy playing McCartney, who looked a bit like Peter Kay, was outstandingly good, to the point that the versions of Penny Lane, She's leaving home, Helter Skelter and The Fool on the hill were virtually indistinguishable from the originals. He also did something I've not seen before in playing guitar right handed and bass left handed
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