Band’s tribute to Cavern Club

May 7 2008 by Phil Key, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL’S Cavern Club still has an iconic status with bands across the world.

It is one reason the Australian band twentysevens wanted to do a headline tour of the UK because it included a Cavern gig, the band claim. They say they are “true fans of the British scene”, hence the desire to play at the club.

The band may not be all that well known on this side of the world, and indeed were playing Queensland pubs not that long ago.

It was a meeting with Status Quo that changed their own status. The British rock band asked them to guest with them on an Australian date.

Status Quo were impressed enough to invite them to play the support act on their British tour last year.

And now the twenty- sevens, a self-pro- claimed “groove-based, roots trio”, are return- ing to Britain in their own right. A certain T-shirt may have helped cement the relationship between the Australian band, made up of Steve Tyson, John Barr and Dave Parnell, and Status Quo.

Tyson was wearing it when he met Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt and it made them laugh enough to want one of their own. It featured the guitar fingering for three chords, A, G and D, followed by the instruction “Now Start a Band”.

The mini-tour ends at the Cavern on July 3. Tickets, at £6, go on sale from Friday.