Qualla: The Cavern Club https://qualla.com/the-cavern-club en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/the-cavern-club-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Cavern Club https://qualla.com/the-cavern-club The Cavern Club: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-cavern-club/ Photo credit Superchilum, CC BY-SA 4.0. Fans at the bus stop knew where you had been. It clung to your coat, that sweet ghost of ripening tropical fruit from a warehouse cellar in Liverpool. The locals called it Cavern Perfume - the result of dancing teenagers and a packed basement, the bricks themselves sweating and giving back the warm honeyed smell the fruit had soaked into the sandstone before the cellar became a jazz club. Number 10 Mathew Street did not look like anywhere. A narrow door. A flight of stairs. A low arched cellar smelling, faintly, of pineapple. And then, between 1961 and 1963, the most consequential band in the history of popular music played there 292 times.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/the-cavern-club-wp/gcmz-the-cavern-club-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Cavern Club: A Paris Idea Brought Home https://qualla.com/the-cavern-club/ Photo credit Jen Hunter, CC BY 2.0. Alan Sytner had been to Paris and seen Le Caveau de la Huchette, where jazz fans crammed into a Left Bank cellar to hear the bands play. He wanted that for Liverpool. He found his cellar in a fruit warehouse on Mathew Street whose basement had served as a Second World War air rai...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/the-cavern-club-wp/gcmz-the-cavern-club-a-paris-idea-brought-home.mp3 0:06 2 full The Cavern Club: Before They Were the Beatles https://qualla.com/the-cavern-club/ Photo credit George Groutas from Idalion, Cyprus, CC BY 2.0. Paul McCartney first played the Cavern with the Quarrymen on 24 January 1958. George Harrison turned up for a lunchtime session on 9 February 1961. That same evening, the band - now calling themselves the Beatles, fresh back from grueling residencies at the Indra and the Kaiserke...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/the-cavern-club-wp/gcmz-the-cavern-club-before-they-were-the-beatles.mp3 0:06 3 full The Cavern Club: Closed, Buried, Rebuilt https://qualla.com/the-cavern-club/ Photo credit Jennifer Boyer from Fredrick, Maryland, USA, CC BY 2.0. The Beatles played their farewell Cavern gig on 3 August 1963, a month after recording "She Loves You," six months before flying to America. Beatlemania had outgrown a 200-capacity cellar. The club soldiered on through the late sixties and early seventies, hosting the Rolling Sto...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/z/the-cavern-club-wp/gcmz-the-cavern-club-closed-buried-rebuilt.mp3 0:06 4 full The Cavern Club: Pilgrimage on Mathew Street https://qualla.com/the-cavern-club/ Photo credit Jonathan Hutchins, CC BY-SA 2.0. The new Cavern works hard to honor what was lost. The fire exit, next to the Cilla Black statue, marks where the original entrance stood. The Live Lounge replicates the old room precisely, using as many original bricks as could be salvaged. Around forty live acts play here every ...

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