Last year, we premiered the video for “Lisbet Cries,” a single from Durham, NC-based band The Pinkerton Raid. Since then, the band have been releasing a string of new singles, most recently returning ...

Buyers saw a mast head saying “What’s On In Merseyside”. The front cover had a picture of Gene Vincent taken when he was in Liverpool alongside trails for forthcoming orchestral and theatrical ...

A new studio album filled with music from icons of the 60s Merseybeat scene features the last song ever recorded by Gerry Marsden. 'Original 60s Merseybeat Legends' was launched by singer-songwriter ...

IT’S a radio play about a Merseybeat band with a twist – and the music has been provided by Mersey musicians representing all the decades from the 1960s onwards. The Believers, which will be broadcast ...

FOLLOWERS of the Merseybeat sound were in mourning yesterday following the death of one of its most famous sons. Freddie Garrity, lead singer with Freddie and the Dreamers, died aged 69 on Friday, ...

The Searchers are coming to Rotorua in August to perform at the Civic Theatre. Sixties legends The Searchers are coming to Rotorua, giving locals a chance to go back to a time to when Merseybeat music ...

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