The Cavern Club

The Cavern Club
The original Cavern Club entrance in 1963
Map
LocationMathew Street, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
OwnerAlan Sytner, Bob Wooler, Ray McFall, Tommy Smith, Bill Heckle, Dave Jones
TypeMusic venue
Genre(s)Rock ‘n’ roll, Merseybeat, Rock
Opened16 January 1957, reopened 26 April 1984 and 11 July 1991
Closed28 May 1973, and 3 December 1989
Website
www.cavernclub.com
The Cavern of the re-opened Cavern Club (photographed in 2009).
Le Caveau de la Huchette, jazz club in Paris, the model for the Cavern.

The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England.

The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 50s and early 1960s. The club became closely associated with Merseybeat and regularly played host to The Beatles in their early years.[1]

The Cavern Club closed in 1973 and was filled in during construction work on the Merseyrail underground rail loop. It reopened in 1984. It was temporarily closed again from 1989 to 1991, and has been open ever since.

  1. ^ Note on first Beatles appearance, The Cavern Club.