Liverpool Music Icons Tour
5.0
48 Ratings
Merseyside

Explore Liverpool’s musical legacy with icons Pete Hooton or Keith Mullin. Discover secrets, enjoy a guided tour, and chat over a free drink.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts - Your tour will start at LIPA, founded by Paul McCartney and the building in which he went to school.
  • Liverpool - Experience a personally curated tour of sites in central Liverpool. The tour will visit sites, not on the usual tourist trail and showcase Brian’s story of being part of a global music…
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What's Included
  • Services of your iconic guide
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities (optional)
Additional Information

Liverpool is renowned globally for its rich musical heritage, most famously The Beatles. Yet, this vibrant musical city has consistently produced a stream of talent both before and after the Beatlemania era, a story that is only now being fully explored.
This exciting new experience provides an exclusive insider perspective of Liverpool through the eyes…

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Location
L1 9HF
Meet 10 minutes prior to the tour outside the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Mount St L1 9HF (approx 15-min walk from Lime Street Station). Meet by the suitcases on Hope St. If it rains you can shelter in the entrance area of LIPA 30 seconds walk from the suitcases.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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267gertjanv
Aug 25, 2025
Unforgettable! - What a must do for music lovers! The four of us have made this unforgettable music tour with host Pete (singer of the Farm) and we enjoyed it so much! Particularly nice extra information that you rarely to never read is heard here and visiting the locations where it all happened in the 60/70/80/90 ties makes it very special. Clearly, the love that host Pete feels for the locations and the accompanying musical memories. The tour confirms what we secretly thought: Liverpool is special, the soul of music and its inhabitants lives on in the streets of this wonderful city! Thanks again Pete for this fantastic day!
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Odyssey45598404012
Aug 25, 2025
Fantastic - Best tour we've ever had. Seen a lot, heard a lot and information that is not widely known. Also important: Pete is very pleasant company, a particularly fine man. The tour does justice to a beautiful music that must be kept alive and honored. It is a wonderful memory for us. Would highly recommend it!
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Sarahty1135wq
Aug 17, 2025
Excellent tour of Liverpool.s musical history - Due to a scheduling mishap, we ended up on a private tour, just me and my husband with Pete Hooton. This was a fantastic way to explore the city if you’re interested in music. It’s a fantastic mix of history that surfaces more obscure Beatles history along with the emergence of other music styles and artists, some you will have heard of, others less so, but their stories are important in the evolution of the music scene. As a host Pete was incredibly passionate and knowledgeable telling stories based on his own experiences as well as the historical facts. Highly recommended.
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Voyager30920146129
Jun 28, 2025
A great way to delve into the what’s what of Liverpool culture. - Went on this tour last summer (2024) with a couple of mates. It added to and turned out to be part of one of those brilliant summer afternoons and nights that happen now and again. Thoroughly enjoyable and informative, Peter absolutely knows is stuff, he’s been there and done it and it adds to a brilliant couple of hours. It brought back loads of brilliant memories of music, bands and venues and also loads of really interesting facts and information about the culture of a great city. Couldn’t recommend this tour highly enough, it was brilliant. Do it.
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K451aqgillb
May 18, 2025
Brilliant!! - Absolutely brilliant!!! Lived in Liverpool all my life and learned so much! Peter was so funny and very interesting! The little stories he told were amazing. Thank you so much! Highly recommend x
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A5186dhroseh
May 17, 2025
A true icon in every sense of the word! - What an incredible depth of knowledge about our music scene here in Liverpool from Pete. A very enjoyable sunny and warm personality from this great man from the farm. You will certainly not be disappointed with this very knowledgable informative reminiscing account of the different groups such as Echo and the Bunnyman, The House Martins and even one of my all time favourites Deaf School. Could have fallen down with shock when he mentioned Betty Bright married too Suggs and there you go that made it for me. A truly inspirational afternoon for us and we had Pete recapturing some funny accounts of how newspapers mix up accounts of what actually happened between The Farm and the band Oasis and their so called rivalry. I wouldn’t hesitate to book this encapsulating personality from Peter he truly takes so much pride in his accounts and puts them across in a comical way with loads of quips. I even covered 10,000 steps in 2 plus hours so I’m asking Peter for new soles for my trainers as they have worn out. I have even re christened him Pete Plaque and all will be revealed when you book this fabulous music Icon experience. A truly memorable afternoon spent in excellent company and rounded off having a drink in an old traditional pub with all its gorgeous original features so nostalgic and coupled with the fabulous atmosphere who could ask for more not me that’s for sure!
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Upsetneil2022
Apr 27, 2025
a brilliant tour - a fabulous tour indeed with Peter Hooton , so many things i discovered and seen ! i highly recommend this tour ! i might even go again sometime !!!!
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Shazzleb
Oct 20, 2024
Excellent! - I booked this for my husbands birthday, we travelled from Birmingham. Keith was such a great host. Friendly and so passionate about his city. I loved how he told us so much about the history of the bands there which we love. The Bunnymen, Pete Wylie, Cast, The Zutons and many more. Loved to see where they rehearsed in The Farm, and many other bands. He showed us pictures too of how things were, it was really personal too and we both got to ask him questions about the bands. Thank you so much Keith it was such a good experience and would so much love to do it again with the other hosts. Keep up the great work for Liverpool, so much needed 👏
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Holidayblahblahblah
Jun 10, 2024
A Great Afternoon Being Hosted Around Liverpool's Musical History by The Farm's Peter Hooton - Recommended! Myself & a friend attended the Liverpool Musical Icon's Tour with the Farm's Peter Hooton and what an excellent experience it was. I have to admit to already being something of a fan of Peter's prior to attending the tour, for many reasons: His 'originator' status when it comes to the birth of terrace-fashion, his involvement in the 70's/80's/90's Liverpool fanzine & music-scene, his impeccable musical-tastes and of course, the success he had as part of the Farm ......... all this (and plenty more) is touched-on during the tour. No Liverpool music tour would be possible without some Beatles content & Peter did touch on the Fab-4, but this is absolutely NOT a Beatles-centric tour ........ it is far, far wider than that. We found ourselves winding a route around the city at a reasonable pace (finding time for a mid-tour pint), touching on general history of the city, significant architectural touch-stones & of course, primarily, the rich musical history across multiple decades & genres...... all delivered with Peter's insightfulness & sense of humour. The tour concluded with the group having time for another beverage with Peter which gave the opportunity to chat in further detail on things that maybe weren't covered on the tour, but which they had a specific interest in. Peter was a great host & spent quite a bit of time with this and autographs/photo's, etc. The consensus across all the group was a great afternoon had by all.
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Nigelb190
Jun 10, 2024
Best £60 I’ve ever spent!! - I cannot recommend this tour enough. It was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon in the company of Peter Hooton. Peter’s knowledge of all eras of the Liverpool music scene is unparalleled and this is evident throughout the tour. A stop off for a beer during the tour and one at the end of the tour was the icing on the cake. Some fabulous chat about football and music throughout the day from one of music’s most genial figures.
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