So we would we would perform one of the albums and it’s as if you were going to listen to Beethoven, or whatever. We look at our project like it’s modern classical. And some guys are obviously a lot better than others! The other thing that maybe sets you apart from other Beatles tribute bands is that there’s no ‘fancy dress’ element. Are you all multi-instrumentalists? You have the flexibility to swap around and play on different instruments?
It’s not like “this guy is Paul McCartney and this guy, John Lennon” – it changes quite a lot. A lot of these musicians play different instruments and you need a lot of people on stage, so it’s ‘hands on’ usually for everyone. Then behind us we have four horn players and a string quartet. But then we have two other guys who come in to play some guitar and sing. Officially there’s five guys in the band. How many people are officially in the band, because obviously you need a lot of people on stage for certain songs, additional players, string sections, and all the rest of it? Pepper, we’ve done ‘The White Album’ and Abbey Road. There are quite a lot of Beatles cover bands, but they usually focus on the early Beatles stuff, when they were wearing the suits – but we focus on the later years and what makes us slightly different from other Beatles cover bands is that we play complete albums, so we would do a whole tour based around all of them. Obviously, there’s a lot of orchestration and stuff like that on these records which would have made it impossible for them to play at that time. SDE: Hi Felix, who are The Analogues and what do you do?įelix Maginn: The Analogues are technically a tribute band, which is not a term we use a lot necessarily and what we do is we play The Beatles’ albums from 1966 to 1970, the records that The Beatles never performed live themselves – ‘the studio years’, so to speak. SDE caught up with band member Felix Maginn to find out more…
They are currently on tour and next week play a few more dates (including The London Palladium on Monday 3 October) where they will perform Let It Be and Abbey Road. In the last six or seven years, they have performed Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt, Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The White Album in full, live on stage. They don’t attempt to look like The Beatles, just to sound like them. The Analogues are a Dutch band who pay homage to The Beatles by performing their later albums live on stage with pin-point accuracy, using analogue and period-accurate instrumentation.
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