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Post by ash on Jul 1, 2013 0:10:45 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Jul 1, 2013 5:53:35 GMT
That good!! Ash?
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Post by ash on Jul 1, 2013 7:47:22 GMT
The link is not spot on, you still have to put in the date. I must have been first in last night buying the tickets just after midnight. Anyone would think I like the band It would be rude not to go seeing as it's only a few miles from me
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Post by snaggler on Oct 9, 2013 22:44:47 GMT
I paid for tickets for the oxford Christmas show via travelbookingnetwork months ago. Should I have received tickets?? Or do we pick them up on the day. Thanks for any info cheers John
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 10, 2013 8:22:32 GMT
I paid for tickets for the oxford Christmas show via travelbookingnetwork months ago. Should I have received tickets?? Or do we pick them up on the day. Thanks for any info cheers John I don't know with this concert. Ash may know as he's also bought tickets but it's probably a good idea to contact the ticket agent to find out. I know the tickets that I've got for Salisbury next year won't get to me until 10 days before the concert so it may be the same with the Xmas Oxford show.
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Post by snaggler on Oct 10, 2013 18:21:18 GMT
Many thanks for the info, just checked and apparently the confirmation email is the ticket and should be printed off and brought to the concert. Also we will get a further email before the 19th.
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Post by ash on Oct 12, 2013 17:12:07 GMT
Many thanks for the info, just checked and apparently the confirmation email is the ticket and should be printed off and brought to the concert. Also we will get a further email before the 19th. Yes I was confused and emailed them about this as well. Good to see someone else from here is going
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 18, 2013 11:11:26 GMT
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Post by ash on Dec 3, 2013 18:53:45 GMT
Not long now. Very much looking forward to it
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 4, 2013 8:58:24 GMT
Not long now. Very much looking forward to it Look forward to reading all about it ash.
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 19, 2013 14:18:08 GMT
Tonight We Rock in Oxford! Looking forward to the review by Ash. Remember to 'Give till it hurts'.
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 20, 2013 9:18:23 GMT
Looking forward to hearing how it went as well. A friend and fellow Tull collector Mark Collins is going to Ely so we may have a review of that concert as well in due course.
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 22, 2013 1:55:05 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 22, 2013 8:21:16 GMT
Images by Sara Trevisan December 19, 2013 St. John's Cathedral
A 'Sold Out' performance! Her favorite tunes were "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Wootton Bassett" A special night indeed with "Adrian Edmundson or something like that. He is a famous comedian but I had never heard of him." Thanks for posting the first photo's Jim. As for Adrian Edmonson, he's probably most famous for playing Vivian in 'The Young Ones' seen here on the left. Not bad on the Mandolin either.
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Post by ash on Dec 22, 2013 14:11:58 GMT
Sorry for not posting sooner. Yeah a great night and venue! Adrian Edmonson was a surprise but was very good. Some lovely choir singing was well. Good to see the Rev'd George Pitcher from St Brides Fleet street doing all the intro and a blessing. Now there's a man who can sing and dance about to Tull I didn't take many photos but..... P1010451 by Ashley.R.G, on Flickr P1010460 by Ashley.R.G, on Flickr P1010477 by Ashley.R.G, on Flickr Don't ask me the full and correct order of play but we had.. God rest Ye Merry Gentlemen with Choir Gaudete: Choir Holly Herald A Christmas Song Reading from Ian Bach prelude in C major (happy Birthday) Bouree Jack in the green Reading from Adrian Edmonson Song from Adrian Edmonson with Tull Florian Opahle Bach's Toccata & Fugue Wootton Bassett town. We Five kings My God ...I saw Rev'd Pitcher cross himself at the start of that lol. Then I saw him singing along . Groovey 70's light show as well in the last three songs. Aqualung (The updated version) Which I have grown to really like! locomotive breath Worth ever penny and my friends who have only seen Tull once before had a great time as well!
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Post by ash on Dec 22, 2013 16:52:19 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 22, 2013 16:55:46 GMT
Thank you very much for your review ash. It sounds like it was a great night. Christmas wouldn't be the same now without an Ian Anderson Cathedral Concert.
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Post by ash on Dec 22, 2013 17:09:39 GMT
Thank you very much for your review ash. It sounds like it was a great night. Christmas wouldn't be the same now without an Ian Anderson Cathedral Concert. No problem....Roll on next year .
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 22, 2013 23:09:51 GMT
Thanks to Ash for his great review and set list! These images are super cool on the SJE Facebook page... Rock 'n Roll Cathedral with the music of Tull!
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 23, 2013 8:34:21 GMT
Many thanks Ash for the images and review of the Oxford concert.
Much appreciated.
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 23, 2013 8:44:35 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 23, 2013 9:07:37 GMT
www.thisismoney.co.uk/REV. GEORGE PITCHER: Financiers need to start giving something backBy REVEREND GEORGE PITCHEROn Thursday and Friday, I did a short UK tour with a rock band. It’s become quite a pre-Christmas tradition for me, a little advent ritual, after I fell in some years ago with Ian Anderson, who has fronted the folk-rock supergroup Jethro Tull this past 40-plus years, still occasionally on one leg as he wrestles a serpentine theme from his flute. This year, it was the turn of a cosy and intimate parish church in Oxford and the cavernous Ely cathedral to benefit from this venerable rock star’s yuletide largesse. The Jethro Tull brand still commands a dedicated following and we sell out churches and cathedrals every year, with every penny from the tickets going to the local congregation’s causes – and, I might add, the whole exercise costs Ian more than a few bob. Over a fierce prawn curry in Oxford (another tradition), I asked him why he did it, as he’s no card-carrying member of the Christian faith. Anderson’s reply surprised me. ‘I do it because I want to,’ he said. ‘I do it for me. At the end of a long year’s touring, it’s good to play a couple of challenging venues, with tricky acoustics and a different vibe.’ I might have expected some charity talk about ‘giving something back’ or being ‘lucky and having a responsibility to the less fortunate’. But Ian is clear that his principal motivation is for himself. And I don’t think that is selfish. He’s a performer - and the more he enjoys himself on stage with his band, the more his audience enjoys his performance. True, as I say, he gives of his wealth to support these charity gigs, but much more importantly he gives of himself. Since the financial crisis of 2008, I’ve a strong sense of a return to the idea of the giving of ourselves, self-sacrificially if you like, to the common good. It is dangerous to generalise, but a big part of the problem with our banks and the financial services industry has been that not enough of them have given of themselves in the service of others and have concentrated on taking from other people – and taking them for a ride, more often than not. You don’t have to be a crook to do that. You can perfectly properly operate within the law, while still being entirely focused on what you acquire from others, the wealth that it creates for you and the toys and trinkets of success that it buys. That’s the consumerism to which we’ve become so accustomed. And I think there’s a change of mood in our Austerity Britain. There has certainly been more resistance to the commercial pressures to buy like crazy this Christmas than any other that I can remember – forget consumerism seems to be the prevailing mood. And the companies that comprise our financial economy need to respond to that. Shoppers don’t just demand value, they now demand values. It is no longer sufficient to pretend all that matters is goods and services – we need to demonstrate the social impact of what we produce. And that means the giving of ourselves, genuinely and in service, not just of our wealth. It may seem easy, of course, for a gifted musician such as Ian Anderson to give of himself in performance – and harder for the rest of us. But even faceless financiers are now being asked to perform socially too. It simply isn’t good enough to state we provide financial services that meet a need (such as payday loans!), that we pay our taxes (if we do!) and that we enrich our economy (while really enriching ourselves!). We need more visibly to demonstrate that our work serves others rather than ourselves. And those who give of themselves in this way, incidentally, will be tomorrow’s leaders. There’s no better time to grasp that message than at Christmas. Because to give of ourselves at Christmas is the highest calling we have, as we celebrate the story of a God who gives willingly and entirely of Himself – in the greatest gift of all, a helpless baby. The Reverend George Pitcher is an Anglican priest and chairman of Jericho Chambers
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 23, 2013 14:30:10 GMT
Images by Sara Trevisan December 19, 2013 St. John's Cathedral
A 'Sold Out' performance! Her favorite tunes were "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Wootton Bassett" A special night indeed with "Adrian Edmundson or something like that. He is a famous comedian but I had never heard of him." Thanks for posting the first photo's Jim. As for Adrian Edmonson, he's probably most famous for playing Vivian in 'The Young Ones' seen here on the left. Not bad on the Mandolin either. Adrian Edmundson with his group The Bad Shepherds which, early on, featured Maartin Allcock. www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Article.aspx?id=4931
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 23, 2013 16:05:09 GMT
Dear Santa Tull, Please find me a hat like the one Florian Opahle is wearing these days! Sincerely Jim Sim
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 23, 2013 16:17:54 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 23, 2013 16:42:58 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 24, 2013 7:21:13 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 24, 2013 9:33:35 GMT
The last time I was in Germany, many years ago, Michael Veith (of fond memory) told me that they were very popular with German youth. I nearly bought one but I'd run out of money
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Post by ash on Dec 24, 2013 10:40:32 GMT
I was sat about two rows back from that . Great version of Aqualung!
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 26, 2013 12:17:48 GMT
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