by ecca » 16 May 2011, 14:59
Get Back.....
Incidentally, there is an area of Walsall called 'The Butts' in which is a pub called 'The Butts Tavern'
There was a Folk Club there in 1978 which I went to every week. Performers would come and do one token Beatles song and no more and I thought what a great night it would
be to have a night of nothing but Beatles songs. This I organised with some pals and of course doing what we did at a pub with that name we just had to be 'The Buttles'.
It was to be a one nighter but it was so well received we carried on with various line-ups until 2002.
This first night was before the term 'tribute band' had been coined and before 'The Bootleg Beatles' with whom we played at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1982.
This Polytech gig was an eye opener, we were getting the princely sum of £50 and they got £800 ! What a swizz.
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