THE CREAM OF CLAPTON BAND PRESENTS UNPLUGGED & 24 NIGHTS REVISITED 

Endorsed by the man himself, The Cream of Clapton Band featuring family, friends & band mates play select 2025-2026 dates to celebrate Eric Clapton’s record-breaking 24 Nights  at The Royal Albert Hall, & best-selling LIVE album of all time, MTV’s Unplugged.

This tour has been the first time in over 30 years that East & Ferrone have revisited these historic performances together. With the successful recent reissue of the Royal Albert Hall concerts, dubbed “The Definitive 24 Nights” and 2025’s ‘extended, remixed and remastered’ “Unplugged…..Over 30 Years Later” audiences have been loving the shows!

Nathan East is one of the most recorded bass players of all time. East was 16 years old when he got his first break and went on the road with Barry White. The next call came from Quincy Jones. The calls kept coming, and for the last four decades, East has been recording and performing with artists as legendary as Phil Collins, George Harrison, Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Barbra Streisand, and Stevie Wonder. He is a founding member of the chart-topping contemporary jazz group Fourplay and has been Clapton’s go-to bass players for over 40 years!

Known for his exceptional groove and deep ‘pocket’, Steve Ferrone’s six-year tenure with Eric Clapton included touring and recording on Journeyman, 24 Nights and Unplugged. He went on to join Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1994, through to Tom’s untimely passing in 2017. He has also played/plays with a myriad of top artists during a career spanning five decades, including Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, The Average White Band, Bee Gees, George Benson, Johnny Cash, Duran Duran, Bryan Ferry, Peter Frampton, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan and Christine McVie.

“To be able to play this music with those who were there in the first place is almost impossible to comprehend” says nephew Will Johns. We are playing classics like ‘Cocaine,’ ‘Sunshine of Your Love,’ ‘Badge,’ and ‘Layla,’ and many greats that haven’t been performed live by Eric for some time such as ‘Bad Love,’ ‘Tearing Us Apart,’ ‘Holy Mother,’ and ‘Run.’ 

Johns is a renowned British blues artist born to Paula Boyd sister of style icon Pattie (“Layla”) Boyd, famously married to both George Harrison and then Eric Clapton. He got to know his “Uncle Eric” as a boy, which included an introduction to the guitar. His father is the late, great Andy Johns, legendary record producer and engineer for the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and Van Halen.

Twenty-four-year-old Noah East has played the piano since the age of four and has listened to his father play with Clapton since he can remember: “Our goal is to do justice to this incredible body of work, and given Eric’s blessing of this project, we have the confidence to interpret these songs in our own way. So many great musicians want to sit in with the band, so we’ve decided to invite ‘special guests’ as often as we can. To have my father and Steve Ferrone back out together, is such an honor. It’s all about honoring the legacy but keeping it fresh."