60s Bands, 60s Music, 60s Memorabilia
Welcome to Cavern After Hours.
This site is dedicated to those mid to late 60s bands and groups that became known as the second generation Merseyside groups. Almost all of these second generation groups including the groups I was in during the mid to late 60's, came along a good few years after the initial early 60's wave of MerseyBeat.
When I first got to see the inside of The Cavern in June 1967, several years had already past since The Beatles' last Cavern performance. As those years passed bankruptcy closed down the Cavern.
With new owners soon found, The Cavern with a completely new image upstairs while still maintaining the smelly cellar below, and I add, just prior to my first performance at the club, was once again up and running.
The early pioneers of Merseybeat, The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers and all those other great, great 60s groups as great as they all are, they won't be the purpose of this site, there are already thousands of web sites out there covering the early days of Merseybeat and those who made it big so with that in mind....
Cavern After Hours will instead focus very much on 60s bands that, maybe never made it big. But nevertheless no matter what, those groups hundreds of them, still made a great contribution to the mid to late 60's Merseyside Merseybeat scene.
So lets not forget any of these groups send us your memories by email. Please help us, to make the site more interesting dig out and scan all your old photo's that you might have from the Cavern, The Victoriana, (The Down beat). Dino's, The Beachcomber, The Babaloo, The Mardi Gras. Or any of the hundreds maybe thousands of other venues throughout the UK. If you have any pictures or anything from the 60's you want to share please then...........
I hope you enjoy the site.
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Feel free to browse our online shop, our stock list is growing daily!!!
We have music and memorabilia items related to 60s music and 60s bands.
We also have more up to date stuff including a limited number of hand painted Russian Doll sets re-calling the many appearances of "The Perfumed Garden" at "the world famous Cavern Club Liverpool" during 1968. The dolls are hand painted in Psychedelic kaftan flower power style typical of the late 60's fashion. Only £29.99 a set of 5 have a look now while stock lasts!!!!!