I've had a good few days! Last week (I think?), I went to FACT to attend a special screening of The Beatles' 1967 psychedelic classic Magical Mystery Tour. As a great lover of both the Fab Four and the wonderfully strange, it was a very exciting evening. Of course, I watched it again when it screened on BBC Two yesterday.
I went with a couple of Tumblr friends, and we had lots and lots of fun. I'm not the loud, over the top type so I watched quietly, but there was a bit of Beatlemania erupting from my pals!
While on the topic of The Beatles, I was at the Albert Dock Friday morning in celebration of the 50th anniversary of their first single, Love Me Do. Everyone gathered to sing it together in an attempt to break the world record for the most people singing in a "round". It was successful, and now I am one of the breakers of this world record! I'm sure there would've been a lot more people there, but it was very poorly advertised and lots of people had no idea it was even happening.
My friend Kali was here for the weekend, and we went to The Egg Cafe, a vegetarian/vegan cafe between Bold Street and Renshaw Street. The food is delicious there, and the atmosphere is wonderfully bohemian. Bold Street is my favourite street in Liverpool - it's home to plenty of vintage shops, quirky cafes, vinyl record stores and strange little independent shops. There's also an urban legend that the street has supernatural abilities concerning time travel - hundreds of people have claimed to have fallen into time slips while on the street, and gone back to the street as it was in the 1950s and 1960s! I wish that'd happen to me!
I also showed her the docks briefly, and paid a visit to The Beatles Story shop, which is why you can see her wearing Lennon glasses! I bought a 1960s dress and an adorable Snow White-esque bag from Raiders Vintage in Renshaw Street.
After that, we decided to visit a few typical Liverpool tourist destinations, although we only ended up going to Penny Lane. We felt a bit awkward posing for photographs with the famous street sign with people around, so we took a sneaky one of it as we walked past!
We wanted to go see Mendips, Strawberry Field and St Peter's Church (where John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time in 1957), plus a few other places in the area, but we had to return to the City Centre so Kali could catch her train. We did manage to see John's old primary school while we were in the area though, as well as St Barnabas Church, where Paul sang in the choir and served as Best Man at his brother's wedding. As for the other things, there's always next time!
There are enough Beatles things near where I'm living - on my road alone, there's John's birth place, the registry office where he married Cynthia in 1962 and the department store Paul used to work for!
