Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2012 | Page 156

ENTERTAINMENT

Bootleg Beatles new

'John' at Faux Fest

Adam Hastings, aka John Lennon, will be

last July. It will be the 24-year-old’s first visit

weekend with lots of people there enjoying

making his own Magical Mystery Tour to

to the Island, even though he has already

themselves and having a laugh.”

the Isle of Wight when he performs with the

undertaken four tours with the Bootleg

ever-popular Bootleg Beatles at this year’s

Beatles, including the one this summer to

of the Beatles, and I once saw the Bootleg

Faux Fest.

Australia.

Beatles when I was 14. Then about four years

He continued: “I have always been a big fan

The Bootleg Beatles are among a host of

He said: “Although I have never been to

top tribute bands who will be displaying their

the Island, when I was about nine years of

musical talents at the Faux Fest, which will be

age there was a girl in my class at school

staged at the IW Donkey Sanctuary, Wroxall,

who went on holiday there every year, and I

‘new’ John Lennon, Adam missed out on the

on August 24, 25 and 26.

ago I started doing a tribute act, and so that
was the group I looked up to.”
When the group began their search for a

remember thinking it must be some magical

first few auditions because he was touring

Adam is the newest member of the group,

place. So I can’t wait to come and have a look

in the US and Australia, so he had to rely on

having taken up the role of John Lennon only

around, and hopefully it will be a good sunny

sending in videos of the gigs he was doing.
When he eventually got to meet the other
band members he was soon offered the job
as Lennon.
Although Adam comes from Newcastle, he
has mastered the art of Lennon’s Liverpudlian
accent as well as his mannerisms. He added:
“I think, aside from the team effort of getting
to try and make the sound of my favourite
records, I love the endless quest that
impersonation seems to be. No matter how
many mannerisms or John Lennon quirks I
put into my performance there will always be
more little gems to find.”
The Bootleg Beatles will be performing all
the favourite songs that made the Beatles the
iconic group of the 1960s in what promises to
be a spectacular weekend of tribute music.

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