The Jacaranda Liverpool
Liverpool venue with deep Beatles history - the original Slater Street club where Lennon and Sutcliffe worked. Now on Seel Street, still making music history.
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The Jacaranda has one of the most significant backstories of any venue in Liverpool. The original club on Slater Street was where John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe helped paint the basement in exchange for the use of the space, and early incarnations of the band that would become the Beatles played here before Hamburg changed everything. Owner Allan Williams was the band’s first manager and the Jacaranda was the centre of a pre-fame Liverpool beat scene that deserves recognition beyond the Cavern Club mythology.
The current Jacaranda has relocated to 34 Seel Street in the Ropewalks area and continues operating as a live music venue and bar maintaining the spirit if not the original space. The booking covers the kinds of acts that would have been welcome in the original – new guitar bands, singer-songwriters, emerging acts finding their Liverpool audience – alongside club nights that reflect the area’s broader nightlife character.
For anyone interested in Liverpool music history the Jacaranda is an essential visit. It represents the unpolished, entrepreneurial origins of a scene that changed popular culture globally, and the current venue wears that history lightly rather than commercially, which feels like the right approach.