![]() ![]() Nash has recently formed a supergroup of sorts with Peter Hooton and Keith Mullin of 1990s band The Farm. Left-right: Keith Mullin and Peter Hooton of The Farm and Brian Nash of Frankie Goes To Hollywood are running the Liverpool Music Icons walking tours "Eric's for me is way more important than the Cavern because of what came after it," says Frankie Goes To Hollywood guitarist Brian Nash. In the late 1970s and 80s, venues like Eric's - opposite the Cavern - produced bands like Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Echo and the Bunnymen, Julian Cope's The Teardrop Explodes and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. ![]() ![]() While The Beatles are the main attraction, Liverpool is trying to draw attention to other strands of its musical identity. This is another challenge for Liverpool - we need to make sure we don't turn Liverpool into a Disney version of the Beatles." "There are many Beatle-themed, rightly or wrongly. This new Beatlemania is centred on Mathew Street, where the Cavern (resurrected in 1984 a few doors down from the original) has been joined by more themed bars, pubs and a museum. ![]() "Then it just kept on getting busier and busier, to the point where we now have live music from 11:00 every day and it doesn't stop," he says. Tourists flock to have their photos taken with the Beatles statue on the Liverpool waterfrontīack in 2009, there weren't enough customers to open the Cavern all week. ![]()
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