Post by liverpoolerics on Apr 18, 2009 15:44:11 GMT
Liverpool Eric's club - reached the parts other clubs didn't even know existed.
Now the spotlight is on Liverpool Eric's Club once again with a unique 500+ page bumper red book packed full of lengthy research, interviews and hidden photographic masterpieces, never before scene. The book's title was coined from a conversation by the Bunnyman's Will Sergeant, who said "all the best clubs are downstairs, everybody knows that..." At last the wait is over, the big fat red book LIVERPOOL ERIC'S is OUT NOW!!
Put together by Jaki Florek & Paul Whelan, published by Feedback, based in Runcorn.
It's a slice of Liverpool's music and social history. If Liverpool is the centre of the creative universe, maybe Mathew Street was the centre of that centre... Roger Eagle started Eric’s club in Mathew Street with Ken Testi in October 1976, soon joined by Pete Fulwell, but the book goes back in time before Eric’s to include Deaf School, Supercharge, The Liverpool Stadium, and the days of the original Cavern Club. Featuring new interviews with Simple Minds, Ultravox, The Stranglers, Pete Wylie, OMD, The Teardrop Explodes, Lotus Eaters, China Crisis, Echo and the Bunnymen, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Simply Red, Stiff Little Fingers, Dead Or Alive, A Flock of Seagulls and many more bands.
Eric's was the rock'n'roll heart of the city, a living centre in a world where all other entertainment is shallow and plastic. Even getting inside was not without its shocks. Rock'n'roll was a welcoming noise that met you as you descended the stairs to the club. It was a place to escape, belong, to be yourself. You could enter Eric's and feel at home, whatever you looked like. One could be standing halfway between the bar and the stage, one ear cocked taking in the classics of yesterday from a juke box that educated and entertained, the other ear taking in classics of tomorrow. Basement clubs like Eric's, and the Cavern Club before it, provided a stage for talented local groups to explore their musical abilities and interests, all within a stones throw of each other in Liverpool's Mathew Street. The club staged music rarely heard in other city centre venues - everything from jazz, reggae and folk music to performance art and poetry, and especially punk. Eric's reached the parts other clubs didn't even know existed.
During a brief period of time in the late seventies, the club witnessed the birth of a whole new Liverpool music scene, one that would travel far and beyond the city walls. Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, The Teardrop Explodes, Wah! Heat, Big in Japan, Dead Or Alive, A Flock of Seagulls, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Lotus Eaters, China Crisis. The list goes on, all bands who's formative musical years can be traced back to Liverpool Eric's club.
Liverpool Eric's, all the best clubs are downstairs, everybody knows that..
by Jaki Florek & Paul Whelan.
Published by Feedback, a not for profit organisation.
Layout and design by Paul Chambers.
WHERE TO BUY THE BOOK
BUY FROM SHOPS
Also available in various shops including:
Probe Records, 9 Slater Street, Liverpool L1 4BW
News From Nowhere, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY
The Beatles Shop, 31 Mathew Street, Liverpool L2 6RE
The 08 Place, Whitechapel, Liverpool L1 6DZ.
Waterstones, Liverpool ONE, 12 College Lane Liverpool L1 3DL
Waterstones, Bold Street, Liverpool.
Waterstones, Birkenhead, The Wirral.
MAIL ORDER SALES
The book is available via mail order by sending a cheque made out to "Feedback" for £20 + £5 p&p from
Feedback, P.O. Box 67, Runcorn WA7 4NL.
Allow 7 days for delivery.
ONLINE- CREDIT CARDS
www.amazon.co.uk £25 inc UK p&p.
MORE CLUB and BOOK INFO
www.feeedback.org
www.youtube.co.uk type in liverpool erics the book
www.ericsclub.co.uk
Now the spotlight is on Liverpool Eric's Club once again with a unique 500+ page bumper red book packed full of lengthy research, interviews and hidden photographic masterpieces, never before scene. The book's title was coined from a conversation by the Bunnyman's Will Sergeant, who said "all the best clubs are downstairs, everybody knows that..." At last the wait is over, the big fat red book LIVERPOOL ERIC'S is OUT NOW!!
Put together by Jaki Florek & Paul Whelan, published by Feedback, based in Runcorn.
It's a slice of Liverpool's music and social history. If Liverpool is the centre of the creative universe, maybe Mathew Street was the centre of that centre... Roger Eagle started Eric’s club in Mathew Street with Ken Testi in October 1976, soon joined by Pete Fulwell, but the book goes back in time before Eric’s to include Deaf School, Supercharge, The Liverpool Stadium, and the days of the original Cavern Club. Featuring new interviews with Simple Minds, Ultravox, The Stranglers, Pete Wylie, OMD, The Teardrop Explodes, Lotus Eaters, China Crisis, Echo and the Bunnymen, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Simply Red, Stiff Little Fingers, Dead Or Alive, A Flock of Seagulls and many more bands.
Eric's was the rock'n'roll heart of the city, a living centre in a world where all other entertainment is shallow and plastic. Even getting inside was not without its shocks. Rock'n'roll was a welcoming noise that met you as you descended the stairs to the club. It was a place to escape, belong, to be yourself. You could enter Eric's and feel at home, whatever you looked like. One could be standing halfway between the bar and the stage, one ear cocked taking in the classics of yesterday from a juke box that educated and entertained, the other ear taking in classics of tomorrow. Basement clubs like Eric's, and the Cavern Club before it, provided a stage for talented local groups to explore their musical abilities and interests, all within a stones throw of each other in Liverpool's Mathew Street. The club staged music rarely heard in other city centre venues - everything from jazz, reggae and folk music to performance art and poetry, and especially punk. Eric's reached the parts other clubs didn't even know existed.
During a brief period of time in the late seventies, the club witnessed the birth of a whole new Liverpool music scene, one that would travel far and beyond the city walls. Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, The Teardrop Explodes, Wah! Heat, Big in Japan, Dead Or Alive, A Flock of Seagulls, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Lotus Eaters, China Crisis. The list goes on, all bands who's formative musical years can be traced back to Liverpool Eric's club.
Liverpool Eric's, all the best clubs are downstairs, everybody knows that..
by Jaki Florek & Paul Whelan.
Published by Feedback, a not for profit organisation.
Layout and design by Paul Chambers.
WHERE TO BUY THE BOOK
BUY FROM SHOPS
Also available in various shops including:
Probe Records, 9 Slater Street, Liverpool L1 4BW
News From Nowhere, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY
The Beatles Shop, 31 Mathew Street, Liverpool L2 6RE
The 08 Place, Whitechapel, Liverpool L1 6DZ.
Waterstones, Liverpool ONE, 12 College Lane Liverpool L1 3DL
Waterstones, Bold Street, Liverpool.
Waterstones, Birkenhead, The Wirral.
MAIL ORDER SALES
The book is available via mail order by sending a cheque made out to "Feedback" for £20 + £5 p&p from
Feedback, P.O. Box 67, Runcorn WA7 4NL.
Allow 7 days for delivery.
ONLINE- CREDIT CARDS
www.amazon.co.uk £25 inc UK p&p.
MORE CLUB and BOOK INFO
www.feeedback.org
www.youtube.co.uk type in liverpool erics the book
www.ericsclub.co.uk