It’s almost 50 years to the day that the Beatles came to the Netherlands to play 2 concerts in a vegetable storage depot in Blokker (we mean the fairly inconsequential town near Hoorn rather than the general household high street chain store). Prior to these concerts, the lads decided to go for a glass topped canal cruise around Amsterdam to enjoy the serenity and calm of our beautiful city, accompanied by 50,000 screaming bat-shit fans diving into the canals to try and reach them.

Apparently it was at this time, that they spotted some students wearing capes, which gave the band the idea to use them in the Help! Film and album cover. Perhaps the only time Dutch fashion managed to infiltrate popular culture.
Well, the Beatles never returned (yes, Lennon may have ensure bookings for room 902 in the Hilton will never be available again) and all we can do is commemorate this notable anniversary in own small way.
So, this week we were joined by Vanilla Punch who are resident house band at Café Nel. They are doing a special Beatles related performance on Tues 27th May which will be followed by a Beatles related Pub Quiz and then Paul McCartney will round things off with a Beatles related puppet show (* one of these events will not take place).

On our show they did a couple of lovely versions of Beatles songs: “Because” and “Michelle”. You can listen to the entire interview here.