Playing The Cavern on Sunday, there's a VERY Nice house Kit

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Stuflyer

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Hi folks, I am playing my first gig with my new band on Sunday as part of the International Pop Overthrow festival at the Cavern in Liverpool and I just got the backline details through. Now as any fule kno, house kits are usually made of charred driftwood, spit and broken dreams and roughly 40 years old with siezed hardware.
Not this one: There's a 2023 Ludwig Classic Oak with a full set of Zildjians and Sabians.
Even the small stage kit is a Yamaha Beech Custom.

I will still be taking my snare, cymbals and pedal ( and some spare parts just in case) but it's nice to know I won't have to fight anything.
 
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It's always nice to have a decent house kit. I've not played a terrible one yet, but some are definitely better than others.

I've been VERY lucky!!!
 
It’s a great venue, I try and visit when in Liverpool for a drink when on a night out.

There’s a recreation of the stage where the Beatles and others are famous for playing and now a separate and larger room for music, Paul McCartney did a gig there a few years back.

I’d love to play the place. Very jealous of the OP and hope we can see any photos.
 
No Way Jose said:
Do you mean The Cavern where The Beatles played a long time ago?
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That's the place.

The kit, BTW was fantastic - the toms and bass sounded HUGE and there was a good engineer on the desk.
The day before we played the Cavern Pub which is across the road from the actual Cavern itself ( though owned by the same folks ) and hte house kit there was a Yamaha Beech Custom - first generation. Lovely. Engineer not as good though, I had to use the house cymbals ( horrible ) which were covered in tape.
You win some you lose some, but I'll take a Yammy Beech Custom and a Luddy Oak any time. :)
Great gigs too. :)
 
I only managed a couple pics but here they are: first is a band on earlier in the evening doing their line check, I didn't get their name but they were from the US and were great.
The second is from the drum stool during our line check. The plush seagull is DaveySeagull - Named after my predecessor in the band who had played the festival a few times with them.
The last is a terrible pic of the dressing room, I thought I had taken another showing more of the room, but it's not on my phone.
 

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No Way Jose said:
Do you mean The Cavern where The Beatles played a long time ago?
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It's a recreation of the original. I think it's something silly like a few feet over from the original which closed in the 70s.

I saw the Rutles there in 2019 a few months before Neil Innes died. It was a great gig. There's actually 2 stages there, the bigger room is behind a curtain in the far corner of the tourist bit.
 
mikyok said:
It's a recreation of the original. I think it's something silly like a few feet over from the original which closed in the 70s.

I saw the Rutles there in 2019 a few months before Neil Innes died. It was a great gig. There's actually 2 stages there, the bigger room is behind a curtain in the far corner of the tourist bit.
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That's the room we were in. There was a covers band playing the front room.
 
Stuflyer said:
That's the room we were in. There was a covers band playing the front room.
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That was the funny thing when I saw the Rutles there. It was a tongue in cheek send up of the Beatles and then we walked through the front on the way out and there was an actual Beatles tribute which was more of a send up than the Rutles.

I'd love to play the Cavern, the load in/out looks a nightmare though!

I need to visit the Casbah next time I'm around those parts. Didn't even know it still existed and it's original and as it was from 1962.
 
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