The Bootleg Beatles at The Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

10th May 2002

On 10th May, The Bootlegs made a welcome return to The Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry. (Almost everyone is confused by the name of the place! Neil Harrison (Bootleg John) joked that they were playing the Coventry Arts Centre in Warwick tomorrow (That would be confusing!:-))
The band hadn't played here for a couple of years, so I was looking forward to seeing them again and hoping that the show was going to be as great as it was before and the times before that- And I wasn't disappointed! It was the first time I had seen them with their new band member, David Caitlin-Birch, aka. Paul McCartney. Like the previous Paul, he is brilliant as Macca and is a terrific singer! New songs in the show included, 'When I'm 64', 'Yesterday' and 'Till There Was You'!

During the show (In-particularly when watching Andre as George) I remembered that George Harrison once saw them in concert and said to the band afterwards, "You know the chords better than I do!" It must have been funny watching 'himself' and his band in concert!:-) Andre is spot on as George and I love his solo acoustic version of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' - Although, they didn't do the song this time, but they performed some new George Harrison songs - Including 'Here Comes The Sun' and 'Something' from the Abbey Road LP.

I won't spoil the setlist for any of you who are planning on seeing this tour, but there are some new additions and some old favourites (Well, they're all old favourites really!:-))

By the way, I can highly recommend Neil Harrison (John) and Andre Barreau's (George) solo albums, 'Richmond Hill' and 'What Kind of Country is This?'! Andre's band is called, 'Those Magnificent Men'.

You passed the audition guys!