It is only when you see the music performed live that you realise how good some Beatles tunes really are. The Silver Beatles went through the Fab Four's back catalogue with incredible ease last Saturday, including everything from Please Please Me right through to Hey Jude.

Jason Kaye as Paul McCartney had the lead singer's mannerisms down to a tee, and the banter between him Andy Powell (John Lennon) was suitably convincing, whilst their singing voices were uncannily like the real thing. A Hard Days Night and Nowhere Man stood out particularly in this respect, as did James Rogers' (Ringo Starr) vocals on Honey Don't and Darren Vernall (George Harrison) on Here Comes The Sun.

Other highlights included Baby It's You, Paperback Writer and I Feel Fine, the last of which had some pretty impressive (and intricate looking) drum work from James Rogers.

Chris Hann (George Martin) joined the group on piano for Lady Madonna and the audience were encouraged to shout out song requests, sometimes with success and sometimes not (calls for Yesterday fell on deaf ears), but the set was well judged and the audience sang along loudly and twisted to the upbeat tunes.

The band returned for an encore of three songs, and only managed to get off the stage one by one, each saying their goodbyes until only James Rogers (Ringo) was left.



Copyright Kate Steaggles, January 2009

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