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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 23, 2014 1:02:40 GMT
An Audience with Ian Anderson www.allflutesplus.com/product/audience-ian-anderson Sat 1st February 2014 @ 5pm Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL Tickets £5
Please select this product to buy and your ticket will be waiting on the door for you under your name.
We are delighted to Announce this exciting and unique event with a long established friend of All Flutes Plus Ian Anderson. It is the first in a series of new projects and events in our 2014 calender at All Flutes Plus. We wanted to put on an event with Ian to celebrate his amazing career for all his fans out there in the flute world and also maybe introduce a new generation of flautists to the amazing tour de force that is Jethro Tull. A fantastic opportunity to see the rock legend up close and personal and ask him questions regarding his love of the flute and amazing career spaning more than 4 decades.
An Audience with Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) Meet the Legend: Ian Anderson www.allflutesplus.com/event/audience-ian-anderson-jethro-tull
This is the first in a series of new projects and events in our 2014 calender at All Flutes Plus.
For more than 40 years, Ian Anderson has been delighting audiences all over the world with his unique and versatile style of rock flute playing. During this time, he has recorded a number of albums to critical acclaim and built up an eclectic, loyal and huge fan base!
Tickets are £5 each and are available from All Flutes Plus 0207 388 8438
Only 130 available! Hurry and book not to miss out.
Any enquiries email ian@allflutesplus.co.uk for more information.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 23, 2014 8:41:23 GMT
An Audience with Ian Anderson www.allflutesplus.com/product/audience-ian-anderson Sat 1st February 2014 @ 5pm Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL Tickets £5
Please select this product to buy and your ticket will be waiting on the door for you under your name.
We are delighted to Announce this exciting and unique event with a long established friend of All Flutes Plus Ian Anderson. It is the first in a series of new projects and events in our 2014 calender at All Flutes Plus. We wanted to put on an event with Ian to celebrate his amazing career for all his fans out there in the flute world and also maybe introduce a new generation of flautists to the amazing tour de force that is Jethro Tull. A fantastic opportunity to see the rock legend up close and personal and ask him questions regarding his love of the flute and amazing career spaning more than 4 decades.
An Audience with Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) Meet the Legend: Ian Anderson www.allflutesplus.com/event/audience-ian-anderson-jethro-tull
This is the first in a series of new projects and events in our 2014 calender at All Flutes Plus.
For more than 40 years, Ian Anderson has been delighting audiences all over the world with his unique and versatile style of rock flute playing. During this time, he has recorded a number of albums to critical acclaim and built up an eclectic, loyal and huge fan base!
Tickets are £5 each and are available from All Flutes Plus 0207 388 8438
Only 130 available! Hurry and book not to miss out.
Any enquiries email ian@allflutesplus.co.uk for more information. What an amazing chance to see and meet Ian. I'm thinking they'll be snapped up in no time. Thanks for the info Jim.
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Post by ash on Jan 23, 2014 18:07:58 GMT
I got myself a ticket last night . Well it's only 50 miles away, so it would be rude not to go I will pop into All Flutes Plus as well, seeing as it's just a road or two way. Anyone else going?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 23, 2014 18:10:54 GMT
I got myself a ticket last night . Well it's only 50 miles away, so it would be rude not to go I will pop into All Flutes Plus as well, seeing as it's just a road or two way. Anyone else going? Excellent. Bit of a journey for me but I'll look forward to any pictures you take
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Post by ash on Jan 23, 2014 18:59:10 GMT
Pity you can't make it. I'll see what I can do with the old box brownie
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 23, 2014 21:36:50 GMT
I got myself a ticket last night . Well it's only 50 miles away, so it would be rude not to go I will pop into All Flutes Plus as well, seeing as it's just a road or two way. Anyone else going? Yes indeed, A very cool lady from London Sara Trevisan Bolivar Hall Located in the Fitzrovia neighborhood of London, the Bolivar Hall opened its doors in 1986 and has never looked back ever since. Part of the Venezuelan cultural center, this hall boasts a choc-a-bloc repertoire of events spanning art exhibitions, drama, readings, solo recitals, dance performances and more. The gorgeous old building has been tastefully furnished and equipped with state-of-the-art facilities that please organizers and audiences alike. london.cityseekr.com/venue/670817-bolivar-hall
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Post by ash on Jan 24, 2014 17:17:40 GMT
May see you there
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 26, 2014 21:56:37 GMT
Holy Homo Erraticus! Just won these on EBAY !5 X IAN ANDERSON JETHRO TULL FLYERS 2014 HOMO ERRATICUS & 2012 THICK AS A BRICK Happy way to start the year off with such incredible luck!!!!!
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Post by Teacher on Jan 26, 2014 22:23:59 GMT
Holy Homo Erraticus! Just won these on EBAY !5 X IAN ANDERSON JETHRO TULL FLYERS 2014 HOMO ERRATICUS & 2012 THICK AS A BRICK Happy way to start the year off with such incredible luck!!!!! It will be a year of wonderful new Tull times. I can't wait!
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Post by Teacher on Jan 26, 2014 22:31:36 GMT
Or Ian Anderson times. I get so confused. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 27, 2014 1:16:34 GMT
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Post by Equus on Jan 27, 2014 6:24:56 GMT
Or Ian Anderson times. I get so confused. Please correct me if I am wrong. Whatever anyone calls it, I have found that it doesn't change the music! lol
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 27, 2014 9:24:57 GMT
Holy Homo Erraticus! Just won these on EBAY !5 X IAN ANDERSON JETHRO TULL FLYERS 2014 HOMO ERRATICUS & 2012 THICK AS A BRICK Happy way to start the year off with such incredible luck!!!!! Well done Sir. Won an auction on ebay myself at the weekend on an item which replaces one I lost many years ago. More later
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 27, 2014 9:26:56 GMT
Or Ian Anderson times. I get so confused. Please correct me if I am wrong. Whatever anyone calls it, I have found that it doesn't change the music! lol So very true.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 27, 2014 21:09:51 GMT
They sell libido on e-bay ( sorry dog, couldn't resist...and for the record...notify me next time it's on offer).
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Post by ash on Jan 28, 2014 18:08:39 GMT
An Audience with Ian Anderson update. I been told that the event with be filmed and will be on the All Flutes plus site at a later date.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 28, 2014 18:39:12 GMT
An Audience with Ian Anderson update. I been told that the event with be filmed and will be on the All Flutes plus site at a later date. Thanks for the info Ash - much appreciated.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 1, 2014 13:23:46 GMT
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Post by ash on Feb 2, 2014 9:48:03 GMT
Love the photo Sara . WOW what a gig! Ian was very relaxed and funny. He not only got the attendance to ask questions about him he also asked folk about their life. He played far more than I expected using two small amps and backing tracking from his ancient iphone as he put it. The whole thing went very well with tracks like.... In the Grip of stronger stuff. Living in the past Euroglogy Griminelli's Lament which was a duet with Ian Mullin who works at All Flutes Plus. Plus a few others ending with Loco. A big thanks has to go to Ian Mullin who had the idea in the first and asked IA to do this gig. I was a bit sad that I didn't get to ask my question or even tell Ian what I do for a living: maybe next time. I'll post some photo's later on because I have a very busy day today. Heads-up Ian said all the studio work for the new album was finished yesterday
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 2, 2014 10:59:58 GMT
Love the photo Sara . WOW what a gig! Ian was very relaxed and funny. He not only got the attendance to ask questions about him he also asked folk about their life. He played far more than I expected using two small amps and backing tracking from his ancient iphone as he put it. The whole thing went very well with tracks like.... In the Grip of stronger stuff. Living in the past Euroglogy Griminelli's Lament which was a duet with Ian Mullin who works at All Flutes Plus. Plus a few others ending with Loco. A big thanks has to go to Ian Mullin who had the idea in the first and asked IA to do this gig. I was a bit sad that I didn't get to ask my question or even tell Ian what I do for a living: maybe next time. I'll post some photo's later on because I have a very busy day today. Heads-up Ian said all the studio work for the new album was finished yesterday You lucky, lucky thing
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 2, 2014 11:48:23 GMT
Love the photo Sara . WOW what a gig! Ian was very relaxed and funny. He not only got the attendance to ask questions about him he also asked folk about their life. He played far more than I expected using two small amps and backing tracking from his ancient iphone as he put it. The whole thing went very well with tracks like.... In the Grip of stronger stuff. Living in the past Euroglogy Griminelli's Lament which was a duet with Ian Mullin who works at All Flutes Plus. Plus a few others ending with Loco. A big thanks has to go to Ian Mullin who had the idea in the first and asked IA to do this gig. I was a bit sad that I didn't get to ask my question or even tell Ian what I do for a living: maybe next time. I'll post some photo's later on because I have a very busy day today. Heads-up Ian said all the studio work for the new album was finished yesterday Thanks for the review/report Ash, much appreciated. Also, cheers for the info about HE, nice to see that it all fits in the time scale rather well and a thought, that one of my friends came up with, which was that HE seems to have been recorded in a very short space of time and not the months and months that some Tull albums have taken or the years that some other artists seem to take - Kate Bush is a prime example.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 2, 2014 15:49:15 GMT
ultimateclassicrock.com/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-horno-erraticus/Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Announces Third ‘Thick as a Brick’ LPby Nick DeRiso February 2, 2014 9:52 AM Ian Anderson isn’t finished with Gerald Bostock, a mythical character whose poetry was said to have inspired Jethro Tull’s legendary 1972 prog classic ‘Thick as a Brick.’ Of course, back in 2012, Anderson issued ‘Thick as a Brick 2,’ which imagined what might have become of the same child prodigy, decades on. Now yet another full-length album centering on the fantasy world of Bostock is in the works. ‘Homo Erraticus’ – a heavier, less folk-inspired project which Anderson is describing as his “next epic voyage into the progressive pock pantheon of strangeness” — is due via the longtime Jethro Tull frontman’s personal imprint Calliandra Records on April 14. A U.K. tour will follow. As he did with the original ‘Thick as a Brick,’ Bostock is said to have composed the entirety of this new studio effort, fancifully basing the new songs on an unpublished manuscript by an amateur historian named Ernest T. Parritt. Anderson will follow the album release with a series of dates that feature ‘Homo Erraticus’ performed in its entirety, along with a selection of Jethro Tull favorites in the show’s second half — “all illustrated and complemented by video and on-stage embellishments from my increasingly theatrically motivated troupe of musical thespians,” Anderson adds. NEXT: TOP 10 JETHRO TULL SONGSSay what you will about Jethro Tull – and the British band has been the target of both acclaim and ridicule over the decades – but the bottom line is no other band sounds anything like them. By picking up a concert flute (after deciding he’d never learn to play guitar as well as Clapton or Beck), Tull mastermind Ian Anderson gave his band a unique identity that would gain even greater distinction as his songwriting powers evolved to meld progressive rock with classical, folk, and medieval sounds and themes. And while they may never live down that late-career Grammy for “Best Heavy Metal Performance,” Jethro Tull’s expansive catalog is filled to the brim with timeless songs out of which we will now attempt to select just 10 career standouts. Wish us luck with our list of the Top 10 Jethro Tull Songs. 10 ‘A Song for Jeffrey’ From: ‘This Was’ (1968) Why not begin this list of the Top 10 Jethro Tull Songs with a key song from their very first album, 1968’s ‘This Was?' The band’s lone outing with original guitarist Mick Abrahams barely hinted at the daring musical adventures lurking in Anderson’s near future, but rather placed Tull squarely in the Brit-Blues tradition that dominated the era. Not that this in any way diminishes ‘A Song for Jeffrey’s’ lingering popularity as an infectious, slide-guitar-driven building block for what lay ahead. 9 ‘Life’s a Long Song’ From: ‘Life’s a Long Song’ EP (1971) The title track of Tull's first EP finds Ian Anderson at the peak of his poetic powers, contemplating life's everyday joys and travails before concluding, bitter-sweetly, that "the tune ends too soon for us all." Pretty heavy for a then 24-year-old, but then Anderson always acted wise beyond his years (he often looked and dressed it, too). Beyond that, ‘Life’s a Long Song’ is also a top-shelf showcase for his agile and inventive acoustic guitar playing. 8 ‘Sweet Dream' From: ‘Sweet Dream’ single (1969) The sinister words and melodies that introduce this early Tull single not only contradicted its seemingly upbeat title but taught fans they would be wise to always expect the unexpected from Anderson and his henchmen. And that they should expect boundless musical imagination, too, since 'Sweet Dream' requires barely four minutes to augment its catchy chorus with a fantastic, recurring classical score and galloping hard rock midsection that strikes out of the blue. 7 ‘Cross-Eyed Mary’ From: ‘Aqualung’ (1971) One of Anderson's most memorable characters, bar none, this intriguing damsel made the song that bears her name an absolutely necessary inclusion in this list of the Top 10 Jethro Tull Songs. After all, the unmistakable 'Cross-Eyed Mary' wasn't just any other schoolgirl, innocently capturing 'Aqualung's' lecherous gaze in the park, but a precocious prostitute – the "Robin Hood of Highgate" – who much preferred turning tricks instead of cartwheels. Yes, it's creepy, but still a great song. 6 ‘Living in the Past’ From: ‘Living in the Past’ single (1969) Jethro Tull's highest charting U.K. single ever (and a Top 20 in the U.S. years later), 'Living in the Past' helped establish the pastoral dimension of the band's sound as well as the nostalgic imagery common to so many Anderson lyrics. Yes, it's a relatively simple, straightforward song, by Tull's lofty standards (if one can consider 5/4 time “simple”), but an incredibly seductive one, at that. Even forty-plus years after its original release, it never fails to whisk listeners away from their adult concerns to experience childhood’s innocent wonders, even if briefly. Musical escapism defined. 5 ‘A New Day Yesterday’ From: ‘Stand Up’ (1969) For all people knew, Mick Abrahams' departure could have spelled the end for Jethro Tull after just one LP. But Ian Anderson knew differently and the opening cut from his band's sophomore album delivered the message loud and clear, simultaneously proclaiming a 'New Day Yesterday' and introducing new guitar player Martin Barre with an explosive riffing display. To top it all off, the song’s parent album, 'Stand Up,' raced up the U.K. Charts to No. 1 – a first and last in Jethro Tull’s storied career – and more than good enough for spot No. 5 in our list of the Top 10 Jethro Tull Songs. 4 ‘Songs from the Wood’ From: ‘Songs from the Wood’ (1977) Anyone foolish enough to presume that Jethro Tull’s peculiar musical template had effectively run out of steam towards the end of the ‘70s was proven sorely mistaken by the unprecedented finesse, balletic majesty and sheer, genre-straddling mastery of 1977’s ‘Songs from the Wood.’ The title track of Tull’s tenth album threw everything but the burning campfire depicted on its cover at unsuspecting listeners, categorically dazzling them with its serpentine blend of rock, folk and classical music, not to mention those delightfully fey lyrics, delivered barbershop quartet-style by the band. 3 ‘Locomotive Breath’ From: ‘Aqualung’ (1971) By 1971, Ian Anderson had earned quite the reputation for constructing Jethro Tull songs around deeply allegorical, sometimes downright baffling lyrics, but he really outdid himself on the second-to-last song from that year’s seminal ‘Aqualung’ LP, ‘Locomotive Breath,’ which allegedly describes its protagonist’s life, as it falls apart all around him. Musically too, this tune covers the length and breadth of Anderson’s songwriting talents, beginning with a bluesy John Evan piano intro so discreet one can barely hear it at times, before crashing into some of the most bombastic hard rock display of the band’s career. 2 ‘Thick as a Brick (Side 1)’ From: ‘Thick as a Brick’ (1971) After years of hearing his group conveniently lumped in with the prog rock bands of the early 1970s, Ian Anderson finally decided to pick up the gauntlet and fire back with an album-length song-suite on Jethro Tull’s fifth full-length. But, natural-born contrarian that he was, Anderson proceeded to fill the epic musical adventure that comprised 1972’s ‘Thick as a Brick’ with heaps of parody and satire, aimed squarely at those self-conscious purveyors of high-minded art rock. The results included both a now legendary, newspaper-aping album package design that perpetuated the LP’s conceptual hoax and a bona fide progressive rock masterpiece, worth every second of its 22 engaging minutes. 1 ‘Aqualung’ From: ‘Aqualung’ (1971) The tune helming our list of the Top 10 Jethro Tull Songs is built around an ominous heavy rock riff as universally renowned as the one behind ‘Smoke on the Water,’ ‘Iron Man’ or ‘Whole Lotta Love.’ But, ironically, it does without Ian Anderson’s trademarked flute-playing. Everything else about ‘Aqualung’ positively screams “Jethro Tull,” though, from the way it meanders unpredictably between hard and soft passages with shockingly effortless ease to its focus on the sort of protagonist that always seemed to interest Anderson most: marginal characters swept along in society’s slipstream. Any way you slice it, the bottom line is ‘Aqualung’ is one-of-a-kind.
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 2, 2014 16:10:43 GMT
ultimateclassicrock.com/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-horno-erraticus/Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Announces Third ‘Thick as a Brick’ LPby Nick DeRiso February 2, 2014 9:52 AM Ian Anderson isn’t finished with Gerald Bostock, a mythical character whose poetry was said to have inspired Jethro Tull’s legendary 1972 prog classic ‘Thick as a Brick.’ Of course, back in 2012, Anderson issued ‘Thick as a Brick 2,’ which imagined what might have become of the same child prodigy, decades on. Now yet another full-length album centering on the fantasy world of Bostock is in the works. ‘Homo Erraticus’ – a heavier, less folk-inspired project which Anderson is describing as his “next epic voyage into the progressive pock pantheon of strangeness” — is due via the longtime Jethro Tull frontman’s personal imprint Calliandra Records on April 14. A U.K. tour will follow. As he did with the original ‘Thick as a Brick,’ Bostock is said to have composed the entirety of this new studio effort, fancifully basing the new songs on an unpublished manuscript by an amateur historian named Ernest T. Parritt. Anderson will follow the album release with a series of dates that feature ‘Homo Erraticus’ performed in its entirety, along with a selection of Jethro Tull favorites in the show’s second half — “all illustrated and complemented by video and on-stage embellishments from my increasingly theatrically motivated troupe of musical thespians,” Anderson adds. We are in the most creative time since the early 70's for conceptual and progressive music. This is perfect!
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 2, 2014 16:47:06 GMT
A Flute with Ian by Sara Trevisan www.facebook.com/trevisansar/media_set?set=a.10203180285656367.1073741843.1484632745&type=1
Review It was a nice, quiet evening. Ian was on stage for more or less 1 1/2 hours. He played 4-5 tunes on his flute playing along some pre-recorded music tracks, which were his own tracks without his voice and flute (he took them off in his studio so he could practice on them).
It looked like him playing along songs on his ipod (that's what he was using), as any of us would do in their bedroom. He played God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Bouree', Bach's prelude in C, Griminelli's Lament, a couple of improvised things, and he played along two tracks by Seth Lakeman, whom he liked a lot, he said, which were called Coppinger and White Hare.
So, it was him playing a tune and then the audience asking questions, usually 1-2 during every break from his tunes. People asked him about when he got his first flute, they told him about concerts they'd seen, they asked him about his finger... and I asked him whether he had found it difficult to re-learn TAAB (I tried to ask, as I was totally nervous and the question didn't come out as well as I hoped)
That's why I got nervous... At the end, he came back and talked to people for about half an hour, signing things, discussing things, etc. He thought there'd be more people who were flute players in the audience -- that's what it was all about, a sort of masterclass for flute players.
But he had advertised on his website, so, of course, it was full of JT fans! It was nice anyway, an evening more unique than rare. Ian was quite relaxed, cracked jokes, he got only a bit irritated towards the end when a lady's phone rang. Finally -- he said he finished mixing his new album yesterday!
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Post by ash on Feb 2, 2014 18:55:48 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 3, 2014 11:32:58 GMT
Thanks again Ash and also to Sara.
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Post by chea on Feb 3, 2014 12:31:32 GMT
Very good report, from Bolivar Hall, as you see, often novelty from the Italian part of the J. T world .. Meanwhile, I already bought the tikets for the concert in Manchester, 14 May. I'm so happy about ! !
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 3, 2014 19:54:17 GMT
If Homo does come to me...I'll go to it.
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Post by Tull50 on Feb 3, 2014 22:00:56 GMT
We hope so. Kind of surprised that Ian toured the States for much of 2012 and 2013 and recorded a whole new album. And now, so quickly after, ANOTHER new album and possibly another tour in the states? Hope so. Don't understand how he could not write any new material for over a decade then record 2 albums in less than 2 years. I think the new guys have something to do with this new revival of Tull. Ian is rarely wrong in their decisions, though some are painful
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 5, 2014 21:03:13 GMT
Good point about Martin whining about the war horses and promptly trotting them out....apparently no one in Tull land has the balls to come out on not play certain songs.......
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