The Traveling Wilburys played the Abbey Cinema in Abingdon this evening. The group is made up of Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, George Harrison (look-alike sound-alikes) and drummer . They not only played Wilbury songs but also individual songs by the individual artists. There was a near capacity audience.
Merchandise included Traveling WilBearys, CDs, pens and T Shirts. A signed guitar was raffled and won by the man with pink ticket 491.
The audience left the concert after one encore. The band did not play a second encore.
If they are a proper tribute band shouldn’t they have a spoof name like ‘Taveling Wontburys’ or similar?
They did have ‘Paul Hopkins’ in front in small writing. But they have been doing it for 6 years which is longer than the originals.
Glad they did not play a 2nd encore. The audience left after one encore so they would have nobody to play to!
not really a wilburys tribute act, they only played 6 of their songs, so publicity a bit mis leading, very good musicians, vocals good apart from roy orbison, we bought last of the red/pink ticket but a blue ticket won a £400/500 guitar, can they afford that every gig, just sayin for afriend, however credit to the cinema for trying something different