Featuring the Nothing is Real Band. Dance the night away to the Mersey sounds of the sixties as Nothing is Real play every 1964 Beatles song including the albums A Hard Day’s Night and Beatles for Sale, not forgetting the often forgotten EP Long Tall Sally.
Nothing is Real started out in 2012 when Beatles fanatics Jon Rose, Sam Whimpenny and Simon Meader got together for a “one off” concert at the old Underground Theatre in Eastbourne after recruiting three other musician friends Paul Potton, Bob Turner and Tim Izzard. Tim left the band a couple of years later to pursue his love of Bowie music and was replaced on drums by Paul Brewer. After 12 years they’d raised over £17,000 for a whole host of worthy causes.
They say: “Despite our youthful looks we can’t hope to look like the fab four so rather than call ourselves a tribute band we are advertised as a Beatles’; covers band”
They have played many times at Rushlake Green, both in the Dunn Village Hall and on the green, and continued their 60th anniversary pattern in 2024 by playing every 1964 Beatles song. They invited everyone from the village (which after all was the home of Brian Epstein the Beatles’ manager for a few months in 1967) to come along wallow in nostalgia for a time when the world was still black and white but the music was colourful.
