PAUL KAPPA / AMAZING KAPPA BAND: THE STORY

Paul Kappa started playing guitar at the age of 10, soon impressing his classmates with his rendition of Stairway to Heaven. At Southport Art College he formed a band with Roger Jones called Circle of Poverty latterly The Cathedral. They played in the rebuilt Cavern Club soon after its reopening in 1984 and wrote, recorded and self-released a score of original songs.

In 1994 when Paul was the frontman with Cat Scratch Fever, he won the Liverpool Echo Arts Award for best newcomer. He played more than 1800 shows with CSF in six years, touring the continent and UK and played at major festivals, such as Glastonbury '97, and Cropredy with Fairport Convention in 1998. Cat Scratch Fever recorded two albums, "Death Western", 1996, and "The Big Bang" 1997. They also appeared on MTV and just about every other major TV and radio shows, Europe wide. 

When Paul left Cat Scratch Fever, he tried to figure out what he was going to do next. So he put together Kappa & The Angel Dust, and set about gigging.  Several line-ups fell apart, variously called Kappa or The Paul Kappa band.
After securing a residency at The Cavern Pub and Cavern Club every weekend, the band built up a substantial following in Liverpool and beyond.
Alex McKechnie who was booking for the Cavern Club at the time, printed some flyers and handed them out to punters at the Cavern Pub. It said "You are witnessing The Amazing Kappa". And the name has stuck since.

The band has undergone a number of line-up changes, but has remained a vital force in Liverpool music culture. Amazing Kappa Band has had a twice weekly residency in both Cavern Pub and Cavern Club since 2002 and has remained popular with lengthy shows of up to five hours of original material and mash ups of all kinds of genres from Ravel to Mötorhead, Classic Rock to Western Swing, Dolly Parton to Led Zeppelin, never a set list on stage, leaving huge scope for improvisation and surprise.

Paul Kappa has written, recorded and independently released over a dozen of albums of original material, with different AKB line-ups as well as solo. Most of limited-run CDs have sold out a long time ago, but some of the albums are still available on streaming services.

The Amazing Kappa show has taken the band around the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Russia and many times in the USA where the band has a firm fan base. But it is the world's most famous club, in Mathew Street, Liverpool L2 where legends are made and during the last two decade The Amazing Kappa band has done their bit... and now has a brick in the Cavern wall of fame on Mathew Street.

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