The Unravelling Wilburys are Thumper, Blind Melon, Sticky Willy, Walter and Rev. Honky Tonk. In a former guise as top Beatles project, Sgt Pepper’s Only Dart Board Band, (The Flab Five), they toured for over 20 years playing at UK and USA festivals, and at theatres and music venues across Europe and the UK.
Their latest tongue-in-cheek shows feature the boys take on their songs being (allegedly) usurped by The Traveling Wilburys back in the late 1980s at Nashville, Tennessee. The Unravelling Wilburys now “steal back what is rightfully theirs” and also ‘borrow’ some choice solo songs from Messrs Dylan, Lynne, Orbison, Harrison and Petty.
Wilburys classics such as End Of The Line, Handle With Care, The Devil’s Been Busy, and Tweeter And The Monkey Man form the basis of the set, with additional choice cuts from their solo careers such as Pretty Woman, You Got It (Orbison), Mr Blue Sky, Evil Woman (Lynne), American Girl, The Waiting (Petty), Here Comes The Sun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Harrison), Mr Tambourine Man, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (Dylan) to name but a few.
The whole package is presented with the band’s inimitable style and humour and is not to be missed! A fabulous night out for lovers of great music.
