Cavern Club, Liverpool (lunch time)
Town Hall, Market St. Earlestown (night)
Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire
The Earlestown engagement, billed as "The Big Beat Show No. 2" was presented by T&T Vicars Sports and Social Club (Football Section)
Mono mixes of "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" for ...
Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
...Night Cavern Club, Liverpool - and 527 Club, Lewis's, Ranelagh Street, Liverpool
Two engagements in one night, the second of which was a "Young Idea Dance", for the staff of Lewis's, the premier department store in Liverpool, held on the top floor of the shop.
...BBC Paris Studio, Regent Street, London
The Beatles' first radio session in London. It took place at the Corporation's confusingly named "Paris Studio" - situated not in France, but just south of Piccadilly Circus in the heart of the West End.
The recording was for the Light Programme Show, "The T...
Studio Two, EMI Studios, London
With the modest success of "Love Me Do", the Beatles were invited to return to EMI to record a second single. "Please Please Me", first aired in the studio on September 11th, was completed during this session, booked for 7:00-10:00 pm, but was finished 15 minutes ahe...
Night Cavern club, Liverpool
...Royal Lido Ballroom, Central Beach
Prestatyn, Flintshire
Only the Beatles' second engagement in Wales, following the debut in nearby Rhyl four months earlier.
...The Lunchtime slot at the Cavern Club this day was played by the Remo Four because the Beatles were in London for an audition with BBC Television, arranged so that their TV potential could be assessed.
Surprisingly, the audition came about not through the endeavours of Brian Epstein, but through two persuasive letters sent to the Corporation by one of the the Beatles' fans, David John Smith of Preston, who wrote asking for the group to be featured on BBC programmes. Assuming that Smith managed the group, the BBC wrote back to him offering them an audition in London on November 6th. Smith passed on the letter to NEMS Enterprises, from where Clive Epstein (brother Brian was with the Beatles in Hamburg) re-arranged this November 23rd date.
The 10 minute audition took place at 12:20 PM in a central London church hall. Four days later, Brian Epstein received a non-committal "Don't call us, we'll call you" letter from Mr. Ronnie Lane, Light Entertainment Auditioner. It would only be when the Beatles had enjoyed a number one record that they would make their BBC TV debut.
After the audition, the Beatles sped back to Merseyside for an unusual engagement at the Tower Ballroom, the 12th annual "Lancashire and Cheshire Arts Ball". Sharing the bill with the Beatles were Billy Kramer and the Coasters (prior to Epstein's signing Kramer to a management contract, adding the spurious middle initial J and severing the Coasters link in favor of Manchester group the Dakotas) the Llew Hird Jazz Band and the Clan McCLeod Pipe Band.
Majestic Ballroom, Birkenhead
Cavern Club, Liverpool
Lunchtime and Night Gig
Floral Hall, Southport
Another two "house" theatre appearance.
Lunchtime at the Cavern Club, then a afternoon trip of 85 miles to Staffordshire for a double header:
Smethwick Baths Ballroom, also known as “Thimblemill Baths” 2nd of the double header GIG was
