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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 5, 2016 16:58:32 GMT
It's beginning to look a lot like ... Ian Anderson Christmas Shows December 14th Worcester Worcester Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July December 15th Derby Derby Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July December 16th Winchester Winchester Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July
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Post by ash on Feb 6, 2016 10:49:13 GMT
It's beginning to look a lot like ... Ian Anderson Christmas Shows December 14th Worcester Worcester Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July December 15th Derby Derby Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July December 16th Winchester Winchester Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July Winchester is only 50 miles from me . My plastic friend is ready for action
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Post by bunkerfan on Feb 6, 2016 15:37:02 GMT
It's beginning to look a lot like ... Ian Anderson Christmas Shows December 14th Worcester Worcester Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July December 15th Derby Derby Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July December 16th Winchester Winchester Cathedral United Kingdom Tickets on sale June/July Winchester is only 50 miles from me . My plastic friend is ready for action Lucky you. I've just checked and it's 306 miles from Durham to Winchester with a drive time of 5 hours 4 minutes so I'm afraid I'll just have to wait for your review. Wonder if they'll have a go at playing this. When you go will you tell Ian we have a Cathedral in Durham.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 5, 2016 9:20:49 GMT
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Derby-Cathedral-used-entertainment-venue/story-29212781-detail/story.htmlDerby Cathedral to be used as a major entertainment venueBy Derby Telegraph | Posted: May 03, 2016 By ZENA HAWLEY "We don't charge people to come in to visit the cathedral on a day-to-day basis and never will, unlike some cathedrals in the UK. But holding concerts and exhibitions is a way of doing this instead. A jazz night this year attracted almost 300 people and we are holding another one in July.
"The band Jethro Tull will be appearing on December 15. We are also a venue for part of the city's book and film festivals. There are regular tours of the cathedral tower and free lunchtime concerts planned. On July 29, there will be an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of England winning the World Cup including talks, film footage, a raffle of signed pictures, 60s memorabilia and guest speakers – all with a red and white dress code."
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Post by Essan on Jun 29, 2016 13:40:51 GMT
Not sure about Derby & Winchester, but tickets for Worcester Cathedral now on sale - only available from the Worcester Live box office 01905 611427 ( www.worcesterlive.co.uk/boxoffice.asp ) - just got mine
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 29, 2016 14:12:37 GMT
Not sure about Derby & Winchester, but tickets for Worcester Cathedral now on sale - only available from the Worcester Live box office 01905 611427 ( www.worcesterlive.co.uk/boxoffice.asp ) - just got mine Thanks for the info essan and please let us know all about the Concert when you go. I couldn't get the link to work so it's only the phone for now. Beautiful Worcester Cathedral
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Post by Essan on Jun 29, 2016 17:36:08 GMT
Thanks for the info essan and please let us know all about the Concert when you go. I couldn't get the link to work so it's only the phone for now. link doesnt give any more info - you have to book by phone (or in person). No internet booking. Never been inside the cathedral so looking forward to it for that alone. I will certainly report back (and hopefully get some pics)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 18:11:13 GMT
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Post by zobstick on Jun 30, 2016 7:59:43 GMT
Well well - Ian Anderson in Worcester Cathedral. Who'd have thunk it!
Got my tickets yesterday, and it'll be good to welcome the Headmaster and his boys, and a good few forum members hopefully, to my home city.
I think a pre/post show beer or six will be in order, don't you...
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 30, 2016 9:31:00 GMT
Well well - Ian Anderson in Worcester Cathedral. Who'd have thunk it! Got my tickets yesterday, and it'll be good to welcome the Headmaster and his boys, and a good few forum members hopefully, to my home city. I think a pre/post show beer or six will be in order, don't you... Enjoy! Trust him to make the Xmas gigs a bit out of the way for me considering this was going to be my first. I'd be getting the train and I checked Glasgow to Worcester - it would involve three changes and Derby's not much better. I would have preferred Glasgow or London but he never asked.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jun 30, 2016 9:35:10 GMT
Beautiful Worcester Cathedral I might just consider the trek now!!
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Post by zobstick on Jun 30, 2016 10:37:09 GMT
Hey nonrabbit - it'd be good to catch up if you did..!
Worcester Cathedral is a beautiful awe-inspiring building, but then most of our Gothic heritage in this country is to be fair. I'm probably a bit biased however..
We've got the tomb of King John in Worcester - now he was a proper bugger by all accounts..!
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Post by ash on Jul 22, 2016 16:53:02 GMT
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Post by leighiturner on Sept 6, 2016 10:43:25 GMT
Does anyone have 2 tickets for the Worcester Cathedral show for sale? Or know anyone who can no longer go?
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 7, 2016 17:31:33 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 6, 2016 14:35:39 GMT
Discover Ian Anderson, the flute and voice behind the legendary Jethro Tull!Complete interview What / who are you inspired by and listening to right now?
Muddy Waters, Beethoven and Varttina, the Finnish folk band. Right now, I am listening to Marc Almond's new, as yet unreleased song which I just guested on. Called, “Lord Of Misrule”. A perfect Christmas song which we will play together at Worcester and Winchester Cathedrals in December.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 14, 2016 9:31:18 GMT
www.winchestergigguide.co.uk/?action=DisplayVenue&venueid=18Date: Friday 16 December 2016 Venue: Winchester Cathedral Address: Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 9LS Event: IAN ANDERSON PLAYS THE CHRISTMAS JETHRO TULL - 7.30pm - For ticket details and more information visit www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/events/'It must be a decade ago that we started playing benefit concerts in churches and cathedrals during Advent. And I hope you find that we merry men have prepared a tasty aperitif of seasonal tunes and Tulloid classics to whet your appetite for the Christmas feast. Please be assured we're not taking a Yuletide dram off you. The proceeds from ticket sales - tickets you've been kind enough to buy to join us at this concert - go to support the fabric and running costs of this lovely cathedral. A big thank you from me, then, for supporting us in supporting your local spiritual asset.' Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull Venue website: www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk Venue Facebook: www.facebook.com/winchestercathedral Twitter: @wincathedral
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 14, 2016 9:46:54 GMT
Well well - Ian Anderson in Worcester Cathedral. Who'd have thunk it! Got my tickets yesterday, and it'll be good to welcome the Headmaster and his boys, and a good few forum members hopefully, to my home city. I think a pre/post show beer or six will be in order, don't you... Enjoy! Trust him to make the Xmas gigs a bit out of the way for me considering this was going to be my first. I'd be getting the train and I checked Glasgow to Worcester - it would involve three changes and Derby's not much better. I would have preferred Glasgow or London but he never asked. As it gets nearer the time I'm getting more annoyed. He's obviously trying to avoid me. Those who are going - we rely on you to share.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 14, 2016 9:51:23 GMT
Ian's Christmas Message
THE CHRISTMAS JETHRO TULL
It must be a decade ago that we started playing benefit concerts in churches and cathedrals during Advent. And I hope you find that we merry men have prepared a tasty aperitif of seasonal tunes and Tulloid classics to whet your appetite for the Christmas feast.
It was at Lincoln – the tenth great church we'd played like this, if memory serves – that I was asked why we do it. And my first answer was and remains that the main thing is to encourage you all to dig just a little further into that hard-pressed Christmas trouser pocket to support your local cathedral.
Look around you. Beautiful isn't it? But it costs the earth to keep it standing here - and the world has changed a bit since those medieval or Victorian master-masons and labourers put it together, so we're not going to be building any more of them. Seems to me that a couple of fund-raiser gigs between schlepping around the world on tour and going home to hang up our stockings is a worthwhile thing to do.
And please be assured we're not taking a Yuletide dram off you. The proceeds from ticket sales – tickets you've been kind enough to buy to join us at this concert – go to support the fabric and running costs of this lovely cathedral. A big thankyou from me, then, for supporting us in supporting your local spiritual asset.
So our first reason is largely architectural. But there are a couple of other reasons. You might call them a holy trinity of reasons (though not in front of the Dean).
My second reason is selfish: I like the challenge of playing some of these most unusual "venues" at the end of the year. Concert halls have their idiosyncrasies. But cathedrals are something else entirely. I love to see whether these cavernous spaces, mostly built hundreds of years before electronic amplification was ever even imagined, can respectfully be tamed for the kind of musical fare that we have to offer you.
Careful deployment of multiple speakers, time delayed as necessary to focus the sound down the long nave and across big spaces plus the judicious use of light arrays to show the backdrop of architectural magnificence are the stock-in-trade of we musical cathedral-dwellers. I arrive in the cheaply-rented white van driven through the night via a motorway caff and a Travelodge or Premier Inn near you. Just like the old days, loading up the bandwagon after the show. Does a man good to push, shove and shoehorn amps and drum kits into impossible spaces. All hands to the pump. Cheapskate that I am....
Thirdly and finally, there's something else going on and it's this: It does us good to be here. My disclaimer, as always, is that I don't count myself among practising Christians – but if they keep practising as much as I carry on practising my flute, one day we might all get some of it right. The world's full enough of people giving religion a bad name just now but, from all that I know of it, the Anglican brand of Christianity that this cathedral lives and breathes is – at its best at any rate - warm-hearted, generous-spirited and welcoming of the old not-quite-sures like me. I firmly believe that people of enquiring mind or of resolute faith need all the encouragement they can get in these increasingly secular days – and as our cathedral shows do pull in one or two people that may not have visited before, we hope that we're doing a bit of encouraging too.
My thanks to the various people who help in these endeavours should be mentioned here. Where would we be without our Field Chaplain, the Revd George Pitcher and the local Cathedral staff and organisers who are really the folks who make it all happen? My usual band and crew happily give up their Christmas holiday time to take part and help fulfil their, and our, spiritual needs. Even hardened drummers seek the solace of the Mistletoe, the heady aroma of mulled wine, the gentle icy fingers of Jack Frost.
That in a nutshell – or a codpiece by any other name – is why I'm here. Why are you? As we send you out tonight into the cold December air with, I hope, a warm song or two ringing in your ears, some of the answers to that question might surprise you as much as what's in that parcel Auntie Mildred has left under the tree with your name on it. They certainly surprise me.
Meanwhile, A Very Merry Christmas, one and all.
Ian Anderson Jethro Tull
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 14, 2016 9:54:36 GMT
Worcester is now sold out however there's tickets still available for Derby.
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Post by stevep on Nov 14, 2016 17:32:44 GMT
Just took a look at the Derby cathedral ticket page and the concert now sees to be sold out. Does anyone know if they are available elsewhere?
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 14, 2016 19:44:53 GMT
Just took a look at the Derby cathedral ticket page and the concert now sees to be sold out. Does anyone know if they are available elsewhere? Just checked Winchester Cathedral on 16th December and all that's left is Block A North Nave Aisle Restricted View - £18. Plus 75p per ticket booking fee. Mind, Winchester's nee where near Durham. Durham Cathedral next year would be good.
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Post by stevep on Nov 14, 2016 20:56:23 GMT
Yes, a long journey for a restricted view. Probably cheaper and easier to get Easyjet or Ryanair over to Europe to see a concert..
On the topic of concerts in Durham Cathedral, I remember Jon Lord composed some music that he played there some years back. Sting also played there so there is no excuse Mr Anderson.....
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 14, 2016 21:00:10 GMT
Just took a look at the Derby cathedral ticket page and the concert now sees to be sold out. Does anyone know if they are available elsewhere? Just checked Winchester Cathedral on 16th December and all that's left is Block A North Nave Aisle Restricted View - £18. Plus 75p per ticket booking fee. Mind, Winchester's nee where near Durham. Durham Cathedral next year would be good. Absolutely perfect for me. Direct train and 2.55 hours travelling.
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 14, 2016 21:06:29 GMT
Beautiful Worcester Cathedral Marc Almond and Lloyd Grossman guesting again.
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 7, 2016 4:06:16 GMT
JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS CONCERT Reykjavík Iceland December 7, 2016 @ 8:00 pm Hallgrímskirkja Church LINK The concerts will take place on 7 and 8 December, with capacity for 600 on both days. Jethro Tull have performed their famous ‘Christmas Show’ in churches in the UK and abroad, and have now announced their plans to bring it to Iceland. Unnur Birna Björnsdóttir: "Look forward to see you guys!!" Mike Downs: "Also on our flight is Eddie Izzard and Mark Almond. And of course SCOTT HAMMOND is on this flight too."
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 8, 2016 4:13:30 GMT
Holy Unnur Birna Björnsdóttir Rockin' the TULL Christmas Tree in Reykjavik, Iceland LIVE @ Hallgrímskirkja Images by Guðmundur Jónsson
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 8, 2016 9:05:45 GMT
From Marc Almond via his twitter page. "Here in Wonderful Reykjavik Iceland for a Christmas show with Ian Anderson and guests at the Cathedral."
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 8, 2016 18:42:08 GMT
It never stops making me happy that Mark Almond is such a proud, consistent Tull fan and Ian collaborator.
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Post by JTull 007 on Dec 9, 2016 3:11:02 GMT
Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull in Hallgrímskirkju last night !
Image by Eiríkur Stefán Eiríksson
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