There are tribute bands and there are tribute bands. Some of them play in pubs as a hobby and some of them take it a lot further and try to make a full time living out of it.

Then there are the exceptional few who make a lifelong career out of it and tour the world playing to thousands.

One of the bands that falls into the final category is The Bootleg Beatles.

Of course they do have an advantage in the shape of one of the best-known bodies of work ever produced by a single band.

In fact it must be difficult deciding what to leave out but decide they did and delivered a set of classic songs and made them sound just as exciting and fresh as they were fifty years ago.

The show was split into different sections each representing a period of the bands career.

The set opened with the mop top haircuts, black and white suits and the early pop hits leading to a quick change into the colorful uniforms of Sgt Pepper and songs from the album of the same name.

After a brief interval and another change of clothes we had moved onto the late sixties starting with Magical Mystery Tour and I Am The Walrus from 1967 followed by Hello Goodbye and Strawberry Fields.

A quick break for a video and another quick change and the show started to rock with Get Back, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and The Ballad of John & Yoko.

The two-and-a-half-hours flew by and before we knew it the show closed with Let It Be and a rousing version of Revolution.

This was not an evening put on by a band going through the motions, they are all excellent musicians in their own right supported by an equally talented mini orchestra who together deliver a show worthy of the Beatles name and will help to keep the music of this brilliant band alive.