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Aylesbury’s DUNG BEATLES will play their third Friars Aylesbury headline date at the Waterside Theatre on Friday 16 October 2026, when they celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the album REVOLVER by playing the album in its entirety, as well as other Beatles classics.

 

Fresh from their hugely successful sell-out Friars headline date at the Waterside Theatre on 3 October 2025, when they celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the ‘Help!’ and ‘Rubber Soul’ albums, The Dung Beatles return to the Waterside to celebrate the 1966 album Revolver. Unlike other Beatles bands, The DBs don’t try to mimic the Beatles with moptop wigs etc. Rather, they just play their music to a sensationally high standard.

 

The Dung Beatles are regarded as one of the best Beatles bands in the UK and indeed the world. Formed in Aylesbury in 2013, the band have created a big fanbase, having played extensively in the UK and also in France. The band played their first Friars gig at the Waterside in March 2018 playing a set as part of the Earthly Messenger Bowie Statue unveiling concert. A year later, in the Friars Aylesbury 50th Anniversary year they headlined the Waterside playing the Abbey Road album in its entirety.  In 2022 Friars presented the band at two special sold out Ukraine benefit concerts in St Mary’s Church, Aylesbury which raised over £20,000 for the DEC Ukraine appeal. The Dung Beatles have also played the Beatles spiritual home, the iconic Cavern in Liverpool, on two occasions.

 

The band are Steve Hillier (guitars/vocals), Phil Toler (bass/harmonica/vocals), Danny Prendergast (guitars/vocals), Mike Ashton (drums/vocals) and Martin Kent (keyboards/vocals). Their joyous live performances, which feature superb harmonies and attention to musical detail (without any use of backing tracks or programming), are the hallmark of their success.

 

The Beatles Revolver was the seventh Beatles studio album. It was released on 5 August 1966, accompanied by the double A-side single Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine. The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their 1965 release Rubber Soul. It has since become regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative albums in the history of popular music, with recognition centred on its range of musical styles, diverse sounds and lyrical content. Classic tracks such as Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, Good Day Sunshine and Got to Get You Into My life are embedded in the counter culture of the 20th Century. The final track Tomorrow Never Knows incorporating heavy Indian drone and a collage of tape loops was highly influential in the psychedelic revolution which was to follow in 1967.