he was leaving the group. On 18 July, a press release announced his replacement as Adam Hastings, a musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. It was announced in September 2012 that longtime member David Catlin-Birch was leaving the group. It was announced that they would perform on the acoustic stage at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival. Andre Barreau's last gig was at Hyde Park in London on 13 July 2014. After Barreau's departure, there are currently no original members touring as the Bootleg Beatles. In 2017, Professor Nigel Osborne (Edinburgh University) was commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to arrange Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for concerts with the Bootleg Beatles performed to capacity crowds at the Royal Albert Hall and Echo Arena Liverpool. Meeting the Beatles Their first meeting was in 1996 at David Gilmour's 50th birthday party. Gilmour booked both the Bootleg Beatles and the Australian Pink Floyd Show as he'd "always wanted to have the Beatles support Pink Floyd". George Harrison was in the audience and quipped "you probably know the chords better than I do" and "Where's the Bootleg Brian Epstein? 'Cos he's got all the money!" The second meeting was at the Party at the Palace for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002, where McCartney headlined. Show format Typically, each gig consists of performances of songs from four eras. For the 2022 Tour, these were: Part One: Cavern Club (1962-1963): " Part Two: Beatlemania and the touring years (1964–1966): (Interval) Part Three: Magical Mystery Tour (1967): Part Four: The Get Back sessions and rooftop concert (1969): Since 2017, the band have done special sets of albums celebrating a 50th anniversary that year and have begun 60th anniversary sets for Please Please Me. These sets usually contain a number of deep album tracks that are rarely performed by other tribute bands. 2017: Sgt Pepper’s / Magical Mystery Tour 2018: White Album 2019: Abbey Road 2020 (also 2021 & 2022 due to covid postponements): Let It Be 2022 / 2023: Please Please Me (60th anniversary celebration) Band members Current members Tyson Kelly (John Lennon) – guitar, vocals, keyboard, harmonica (2018–present) Steve White (Paul McCartney) – bass, vocals, keyboard (2012–present) Stephen Hill (George Harrison) – guitar, vocals (2014–present) Gordon Elsmore (Ringo Starr) – drums, percussion, vocals (2016–present) Former members Adam Hastings (John Lennon) – guitar, vocals, keyboards, harmonica (2011–2018) Hugo Degenhardt (Ringo Starr) – drums, percussion,