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Os Britos at Strawberry Fields??
'OS BRITOS'
Rock Legends England Tour
Oct 14th > Oct 22nd, 2006
Os Britos in Liverpool??

 
TENTATIVE ITINERARY

 

The Long and Winding Road

 
Day One - Saturday, Oct 14
Nightstops

Depart Brazil (Rio/Sao Paulo) on British Airways BA 246 at 13.55pm, or if joining from the USA on appropriate flight, on a direct flight to LONDON, arriving on the following day.

 
Day Two - Sunday, Oct 15

London:  Capital of Rock n Roll! The day’s highlights:

  • London sightseeing tour including Big Ben, St Pauls, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly and more!
  • Free time for British Museum or shopping
  • Welcome dinner at the Rolling Stones ‘Sticky Fingers’ restaurant (where the walls are covered with Stones memorabilia!)
  • First competition to find Rock trivia kings/queens!…Finding 10 lucky winners to visit Hendrix’s apartment, 10 lucky winners to visit Trident Studios,  2 lucky winners to have their photographs taken ‘playing’ Hendrix’s Gibson Flying V!
London
Dinner inc.
Day Three - Monday, Oct 16
 

London: ‘They built this city on rock n roll!
featuring The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Clapton, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Small Faces, Queen,  Sex Pistols, Clash, Blur, Kinks, Elvis Costello and many more. The day’s highlights:

  • Full day London Rock Legends and Beatle sites tour (includes sites associated with ‘Tropicalia’ exiles)
  • Exclusive Hard Rock Café Memorabilia Vault visit
  • Visit to the amazing London Beatles Store and Rock Museum
  • 10 lucky winners enjoy exclusive, special opening of Jimmy Hendrix’s apartment
  • 10 lucky winners receive exclusive tour of Trident Studios
  • Special meal and party at the Hard Rock Café

Os Britos play The Hard Rock Café in a very special charity gig to support Jimmy Page’s ABC Trust. A night of very special guests for you to meet, and a grand charity auction of rock memorabilia. A highlight of the evening being special guest appearances by Rock stars and surviving members of The Quarrymen (John Lennon and Paul McCartney's first skiffle band).

London
Dinner inc.

Day Four - Tuesday, Oct 17

London: ‘The Thames Delta’ Cradle of Rock
featuring The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Pink Floyd, Clapton, The Who, Queen, and many more. The day’s highlights:

  • The London Blues Delta and Beatle Movie sites! A special tour for fans of the Who, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton. You’ll see homes past and present of Mick Jagger, Elton John, the Yardbirds, Phil Lynott, and Freddie Mercury. Famed clubs like the Ealing Blues Club, Crawdaddy and Eel Pie Island. Roger Gilmour’s flaoting studio. You’ll see all the important Who sites. You’ll also see where the Beatles ‘Hard Days Night’ and ‘Help’ were filmed and have lunch in a pub featured in A Hard Day’s Night!
  • Exclusive tour of Abbey Road, including the Beatles No.2 Studio, for 10 lucky winners
  • Exclusive access to the famed Apple Corp. roof top where the Fab Four played their last gig! 
  • Competition winners enjoy exclusive visit the National Portrait Gallery to see Angus McBean's very special photographic exhibition The Beatles on the Balcony
  • Six lucky winners to enjoy an exclusive visit to the famed Madame Tussauds wax works and have their photos taken with 'The Beatles' and Justin Hawkins of 'The Darkness'!

Tonight a choice: either you join a special Rock Club tour, seeing new talent in famed gig sites, or you attend a concert (Queen's; 'We Willl Rock You!').

London
Dinner not inc.
Day Five - Wednesday, Oct 18

Manchester:  ‘Madchester’, rock’s second city!
featuring the Smiths, Oasis, Herman’s Hermits, New Order, Simply Red, John Mayall, Stone Roses, Bee Gees, Hollies, 10cc.
The day’s highlights:

  • Manchester city Rock tour, seeing sites connected with Morrissey and The Smiths, Oasis, Stone Roses, Simply Red, Buzzcocks, Joy Division and many more!
  • Meet the legendary Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub
  • Special showing of the Madchester film ’24 Hour Party People’
  • Optional visit for football fans to the ‘Theatre of Dreams’, Manchester United Old Trafford.
Tonight: Os Britos play a major Manchester gig. Will Oasis turn up to see them!? Afterwards, time to explore Manchester’s dynamic and exciting nightlife.
Manchester
Dinner inc.
Day Six - Thursday, Oct 19

Liverpool: featuring The Beatles. The day’s highlights:

  • Magical Mystery Tour of Liverpool Beatle sites
  • See John and Paul’s original homes
  • Exclusive visit to the Casbah Coffee Club! The Beatles first venue and home of Pete Best. Meet people who knew the Beatles from the earliest days! Lucky competition winner gets signed lithograph of Pete Best (worth US$500)
  • Take the ferry across the Mersey
  • Visit the Beatle Story Exhibition
  • Optional visit for football fans to Anfield, Liverpool FC’s museum.
Tonight: Os Britos play The original Cavern Club! Recreating the Beatles seminal sounds in the place where it all began. Macca’s Mecca.
Liverpool
Dinner not inc.
Day Seven - Friday, Oct 20

En route to Dublin / a tourism sightseeing day! The day’s highlights:

  • North Wales – fantastic mountain scenery where Led Zeppelin made Bron-Yr-Aur, and home of The Alarm
  • Fairytale 12th century castles
  • Visiting Bangor, where the Beatles studied Transcendental Meditation with the Marharishi Yogi
  • Ferry across the Irish sea.

Tonight: free time to enjoy a Friday night discovering Guinness and Irish Whiskey in Dublin’s legendary pubs!

Dublin
Dinner inc.
Day Eight - Saturday, Oct 21

Dublin: Irish Rock!
featuring U2, Thin Lizzy, The Cranberries, Waterboys, Bob Geldorf, Boomtown Rats, Snow Patrol, Paul Brady, Chris DeBurgh. The day’s highlights:

  • Dublin city Rock tour concentrating on U2 sites
  • Dublin’s Hard Rock Café
  • A special exclusive tour of the Jamison Irish Whiskey Distillery
  • A special visit to the Guinness Storehouse.

Party night BIG TIME! Os Britos play the legendary Eamonn Dorans in the middle of Dublin’s hottest nightlife district 'Temple Bar'. End of tour party gig.

Dublin
Dinner not inc.
Day Nine - Sunday, Oct 22

Dublin & London. The day’s highlights:

  • Farewell dinner
  • Fun competitions run all day with lots of Rock memorabilia prizes to be won!

Evening return to Brazil departing BA 247 at 21:45, arriving Rio/Sao Paulo approx. at 08.55 on the morning of Monday, October 23rd.

The winners of the Paris extension will travel to Paris on Eurostar.

Those wishing to extend their visit and stay in London can do so.
(London, for those extending stay)

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