UNRAVELLING WILBURYS
IAC 13TH August 2025
Last night was the night that the legendary The Unravelling Wilburys - the Wilbury Brothers (Sticky Willy, Walter, Blind Melon, Thumper and cousin Rev Honky Tonk - who'd joined from Australia thinking he was joing the Unravelling Wallabies, made their return to Leicester at the Internatianal Arts Centre.
The story goes they were playing their songs in a Nashville bar when Jeff Lynne went in,, liked what he heard and called Bob, Roy, George and Tom to come... they loved what they heard... nicked the songs and went on to fame and fortune leaving the brothers behind!!
But onto the gig... the band play a host of familar Travelling Wilbury pieces, including the likes of "End of the Line" "Handle me with Care" "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" among others as well as a raft of songs from the solo careers of the Travelling Wilbury Members... the highlights for me being Tom Petty's "Refugees", Dylans "Like a Rolling Stone" which starts the second half as a solo acoustic before the rest of the band appear to really rock it up and Orbisons "Pretty Woman" and Harrisons "Here Comes the Sun" but the band do really quality versions of all of the diverse material... sadly once again Eric Clapton hadn't shown up to play on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", but Blind Melon made a fine job of it in his place.
Musically the band are quality... not only singing and playing in the styles of the originals, but doing it extremely well...
The Wilbury Brothers theme continues through the show, with great humour and fun and the band deliver a hugely enjoyable two hour plus show... if you havent seen them... go see them when you can.
To introduce a note of controversy... i wish the band wouldn't encore with Mr Blue Sky, and song that i have never liked... mind you, i prefer it to Bryan Ferry's version "Hard Rain"... but to be fair the band deliver both extremely well!!
Great concert.... thoroughly enjoyable great evening.
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