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Post by electrocutas on May 11, 2008 22:33:04 GMT
Just this very moment back from York
Set details Below. Went with my sister , Brother in Law & My Wife All really REALLY Critical Bast... People... worse even than Moi... General consensus GREAT SHOW really enjoyed it Better than Newcastle.. because it is a smaller venue and The sound was excellent. Ok usual crap about Ians voice but He is 60+ and has toured for 40 years so Bollock's They were Great and it was a Great show anyone says otherwise, Well, You Are Wrong.. because my Wife and Sister are NEVER Wrong !!! I also must admit I think the line up with Goodier & O'Hara is pretty tight too, I now find David Goodier is an upgrade from Mr Noyce and as long as John O'Hara is kept on Medication he should be fine Sister says he looks a bit Axemanish Wife thinks he looks like he should be in an 80's New Romantics Band!!But we all thought they played brilliantly.... Brother in Law thought what Sister told him to !!
9/10
Special Guests - Heather Findlay & Brian Josh of Mostly Autumn
Evergreen - (Heather & Brian) Yellow Time - (Heather & Brian with Ian,David & Doane) Caught in A Fold - (Heather & Brian with Ian,Martin,John,David & Doane) Hero's Never Die - (Heather & Brian)
My Sunday Feeling. Living In The Past. So Much Trouble. Serenade To A Cuckoo. Nursie. A Song For Jeffrey. A New Day Yesterday/Kelpie. Bouree. -------- Interval -------- For A Thousand Mothers. We Used To Know/ With You There To Help Me. Dharma For One. Heavy Horses. Farm On The Freeway. Thick As A Brick. Aqualung. Locomotive Breath (*)
(*)With Heather & Brian (Heather sang Verse 2)
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Post by prestonplatform on May 11, 2008 23:17:47 GMT
Just got in from York. Have to agree with electrocutas' comments...great show. Band really seemed to be having fun Was not at Newcastle but York was certainly better than Manchester. I was so pleased to hear Nursie
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Post by admin on May 12, 2008 20:19:46 GMT
Once again thanks for keeping the excellent reviews coming amigos You guys got any more dates lined up?
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Post by prestonplatform on May 12, 2008 21:02:32 GMT
Oh I forgot to add that Mostly Autumn were much much better at York compared to Manchester.
My friend who has seen Tull about 7 times since 2000 reckoned that the York show was the best he had seen.
I am not so sure about that Fareham was pretty good and IA and orchestra in Fairfield Hall was pretty memorable. However this tour is good, its fresh and vibrant and the band are certainly trying to recreate all that is / was good about Tull. Martin Barre was just fantastic at York.
Got three more shows left , LLandudno , Blackburn and the acoustic festival thing. that will be about the 60th time I have seen Tull since 1974. I know that pales into insignificance when compared to electrocutas who is a reall Tull veteran. However ,met an American guy last night on the front row who has apparently seen Tull 350 + shows. Its probably true because this chap is often on the front row at every concert in the UK I go to
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Post by admin on May 19, 2008 12:28:13 GMT
Great York review from www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/music-gigs/GIG-REVIEW-Jethro-Tull.4076216.jpGIG REVIEW: Jethro Tull
Sunday 11 May at the York Grand Opera House
« Previous « PreviousNext » Next »View GalleryPublished Date: 13 May 2008 By Jo Francisco THERE'S a tight black bandana where haystack locks once were tossed, so that Ian Anderson fits perfectly the genre of ageing rock star. Yet you must not believe that nostalgia isn't what it used to be, for it takes little more than the intro of Living In The Past to convince an eager audience that the Jethro Tull front man still lacks nothing in termADVERTISEMENTs of energy, enthusiasm and eccentricity.
Bestriding and strutting the stage like a prowling beast, trademark flute whirling, Anderson mesmerises his followers with his extrovert showmanship.
With him now are Martin Barre on lead guitar, bassist David Goodier, John O'Hara on keyboards and Doane Perry on drums.
This is the modern-day Tull coming to the end of their 40th anniversary tour and yet there's a freshness and a raw edge to a quite breathtaking set.
Song For Jeffrey, with its rasping harmonica, the haunting Bouree, the cacophonous Dharma For One and the anthemic Aqualung are mixed with Heavy Horses, A New Day Yesterday and Serenade To A Cuckoo in what becomes a rollercoaster ride - Anderson, of course, on one leg much of the time - down memory lane.
The enduring and widespread appeal of Jethro Tull is reflected in sellout gigs the world over. Their imprint on modern music is indelible and here a little bit of Yorkshire got its little bit of legend.
The stage backdrop features a series of cuttings from the Tull formative years, one outraged columnist asking: "Would you let your daughter near this man?"
The subject, needless to say, was a then wild-looking Anderson.
To a large extent, he's still untamed. Thankfully.
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Post by admin on May 21, 2008 20:09:40 GMT
Yet another good review, this time from www.thisisyork.co.uk/ Aren't these critics the guys we are supposed to hate?! Review: Jethro Tull, Grand Opera House, York By Stuart Minting
A FEW minutes after it was announced the Jethro Tull train was York-bound, the grand old engine came a rollin' in and immediately transported the audience back to the dying days of steam.
It was 1968, and This Was, a pioneering album in many ways, had just been released. Off chugged frontman/flautist extraordinaire Ian Anderson and his latest ensemble of furnace-stokers with some pretty faithful renditions. It was Tull's 40th anniversary tour and they had a greater range of tracks from which to choose than train drivers do at Crewe. Yet it had been determined that they were going to restrict themselves, pretty much to their early, more blues-influenced, work.
Appropriately for the day of the week, they started with My Sunday Feeling. Apart from a minor derailment with a vintage wah-wah, Martin Barre's guitar work, while not wildly exciting, remains crisp and melodic. And the new boys on keyboards and bass certainly helped the pistons turn over during a rousing Thick As A Brick. But the engine drivers were drummer Doane Perry, who built up a modern, metallic, head of steam in Locomotive Breath and wildman Anderson with his eccentric stagecraft and unique, virtuoso flute breaks.
It had been 20 years since I'd last seen Tull riding on the Crest Of A Knave. It does seem, despite their possession of OAP railcards, as if the train just won't stop a rollin'.
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