1961 OCTOBER
Monday 30 October Lunchtime Cavern Club, Liverpool
Tuesday 31 October Town Hall, Litherland, Liverpool
Wednesday I November Lunchtime Cavern Club, Liverpool Night Cavern Club, Liverpool
lunchtime Cavern Club throng, conspicuous in his pi: striped suit, was local record store owner, 27-year-old Brian Epstein. By a complete coincidence, though certainly symbolic Epstein's later influence over them, this date also marked the, last appearance by the Beatles at the shabby ballroom Litherland Town Hall.
Friday 10 November Tower Ballroom, Promenade, New Brighton, Wallasey, Cheshire and Village Hall, Knotty Ash, Liverpool
Friday 3 November Lunchtime Cavern Club, Liverpool
Saturday 4 November Night Cavern Club, Liverpool
Tuesday 7 November Lunchtime Cavern Club, Liverpool Night Merseyside Civil Service Club, Liverpool and Cavern Club, Liverpool
The first of four consecutive Tuesday appearances at the Merseyside Civil Service Club.
Wednesday 8 November Night Cavern Club, Liverpool
Thursday 9 November Lunchtime Cavern Club, Liverpool Night Town Hall, Litherland, Liverpool
Perhaps the most important date in the Beatles' early years, for in attendance amid the predominantly young and female 48
A spectacularly busy evening for the Beatles. Main attraction was undoubtedly the Tower Ballroom engagement, tilt first of many occasions they played at this huge hall, capable of holding a 5000 audience. Over 3000 were packed in to witness this, the first "Operation Big Beat" in Liverpool, run on a grand Americanstyle scale by ambitious promoter Sam Leach. (Leach had previously tested the water with a run of July 1961 "Big Beat Sessions" at the Civic Hall in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in which the Beatles had not participated.) Between 7.30 pm and 1.00 am five top groups played alternate shifts on stage. The Beatles' first spot was at 8.00 pm, after which they dashed back, via the Mersey tunnel, to appear at Knotty Ash Village Hall. The evening was