ANYONE not familiar with the 1978 Beatles film parody The Rutles would have been a bit puzzled by this gig, but The Brook was packed with people who obviously knew all about this Eric Idle-conceived show which has become a legend.
Ex-Bonzo Neil Innes fronted a band which has grown to six members from the original bunch of Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty.
They produced a witty and affectionate pastiche of The Beatles' music, full of musical jokes, borrowed riffs and vocal mimicry.
For Ouch! read Help!, for Hey Diddle Diddle read I Am The Walrus, and so on. This skilled bunch of musicians repeated the original exercise with humour and panache.
From the rocking Number One, based on Twist and Shout, to A Girl Like You (If I Fell), it was spot on.
No room to mention all the musicians individually, but the keyboard player was an orchestra in himself. Fab!
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