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At the Iron Door Re-visited event on Friday 3rd September 2004 at The Olympia West Derby Road Liverpool, featuring Mike Penders Searchers, and a whole raft of original Liverpool 60s bands,we organised a professional video shoot,we have Mike Pender's Searchers on DvD plus a very informative interview..

Alpha Sounds was the name of Brian Kelly's PA system company.Brian was also one of the first promoters of rock music in Liverpool.
The name he used for these events was Beekay promotions.Brian is not around any more.

The Iron Door had it's own system,until Rory Storm started to **** his leg over the microphone during his act,quite a few times his leg would crash into the head of the microphone and ruin the sound.Replacing the microphone heads became inconvenient and expensive,we decided to hire. We hired the sou...

KINGSIZE TAYLOR & THE DOMINOES

I cannot comment on any of the groups except Teddy Taylor simply because I was too busy to go down to the basement.Seven -clock Sunday morning the event had started to wind down,there would only be four bouncers on duty,the dawn sky outside, a bit of a chill in the air,a time to have a breather and ...

Excellent Jess, I enjoyed reading your memories of the night it brought back a lot of things I had forgotten. In an interview with one of the drummers in one of the groups who were playing on the night, he describes the scene upstairs on the first floor he went up to get some sleep, he said there we...

As far as I am aware Freddie never mastered playing the guitar,on one occasion in is quest to emulate Elvis Presley he did in fact take a guitar on the stage to use as a prop,he also insisted I take him to a hairdresser to have his hair dyed black,this ended in disaster,the result was totally disapo...

Bruce McGaskill was highly intelligent chap a founder member of the original Swinging Bluegenes.Bruce worked his socks of to get bookings for the Bluegenes I used to see him in the early hours of the morning going into different venues in the 50s to promote the band.Apart from being an excellent mus...

I first set eyes on Freddie Fowell in 1961,we had booked Howie Casey & The Seniors for one of the lunchtime sessions at the Iron Door,a terrific band,along with the band were two singers Derry Wilkie & Freddie Starr. The next few weeks & months Freddie was a regular visitor at the club.H...

Glen Swan's interesting article referred to by Clem in his posting can be read here.

I have seen this film advertised for sale on the Internet,I cannot recall the title.
The BBC made the film in 1963,allegedly preferring to use the Iron Door in preference to the Cavern.In the film The Undertakers are playing on the stage,in the basement of the club.

Hi Steve,all the bands who played at the Iron Door received £7 50p,inclding The Beatles. Audition bands were paid expenses,normaly £4 50p if they passed muster, they would be offered further bookings. One exception was the Beatles in 1962 when Brian Epstein became their manager the fee for booking t...

ALL-NIGHT SESSION Sat 28th May 1960

Bill Harry's piece on the Iron Door in The Beatles Encyclopedia:-A cellar quite close to the Cavern which began as a jazz club called the Liverpool Jazz Society.The Beatles made their debut there on a special session promoted by Sam Leach.The event took place on 11th March 1961.Sam had decided to fe...

ALL'S QUIET AT THE IRON DOOR FOLLOWING THE ALL NIGHT SESSION MARCH 11TH 1961.