LIVERPOOL MUSIC HERITAGE TRAIL – Eric’s
Eric’s 1976 – 1980
“Eric’s opening was the most incredible thing in the world to us. It totally changed our lives, you know. It gave us a home from the first day we walked in there.”
Jayne Casey, musician, 2008
In the mid-1970s, Roy Adams, a prominent nightclub entrepreneur, owned several clubs in the Mathew Street area, including Gatsby’s in the former Fruit Exchange building on Victoria Street.
Local music figures, Roger Eagle and Ken Testi used the ground floor of Gatsby’s – formerly known as The Revolution – to put on their own live music nights. They called it Eric’s – its name an antidote to glamour palace clubs – with an entrance via the fire escape door at the back on Mathew Street. Soon after, with Pete Fulwell joining them, they made the basement the club’s permanent home.
Eric’s was the catalyst for Liverpool’s punk and post punk scene explosion.
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