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Post by futureshock on Jan 14, 2014 2:45:46 GMT
My hopes are high cuz Ian keeps hinting that he feels like he's still circling on a masterpiece...if he was just getting warmed up on TAAB 2....look out Regardless of who is concerned about creating masterpieces, I think the general quality and quantity radically gains when the process of creativity is carefully nurtured and is considered as a process, and one doesn't get too hung up on a product first. It's an old eastern Tao thing of recognizing the link between principle, process and product. Processes come out of principle, and products come out of processes. I've been to songwriter workshops and taken music lessons, I've read about novel writing that still focuses far too much on product, much less on process and almost NIL on principles. I'm trying to write a couple kids books and create a music album for kids and I find the process and products arrive rapidly if I keep my eye on the principles. What is needed? That's just one example. Someone with as much talent and experience as Ian Anderson surely has a few dozen more masterpieces to realize, not just one.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 14, 2014 4:03:37 GMT
Couldn't agree more and respect the magic mix or hunt/wait for the muse. Tell more when stuff you publish gets out in the big world so the great Tull Forum Rave Review machine can be cranked up !
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 14, 2014 9:05:53 GMT
Maybe IA could arrange a concert nearby to tie in with this ? Over to you Time Team and Phil Harding who I believe is a Tull music lover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-24593772Jersey's place in Neanderthal history revealed in studyA study on a Jersey site that revealed a significant piece of late Neanderthal history has been published. "Scientists working on an archaeological dig in St Brelade said teeth found at La Cotte suggest Jersey was one of the last places Neanderthals lived.
The team of British archaeologists have unearthed items which show the presence of Stone Age hunters at the headland.
They said the finds were helping scientists understand more about the early relatives of modern humans."
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Post by nobodyspecial on Jan 15, 2014 18:51:28 GMT
Hey anyone/everyone.... Been a while since I've posted. Well, I have to say I'm 50/50 on the new effort from IA. I'm one of the seeming few ancient JT/IA followers that thought/thinks TAAB2 wasn't 'all that'. Personally, I found it a bit 'flat' lyrically and instrumentally, didn't find it in keeping with the extremely high-quality of TAAB, represented an 'odd' way to change away from, or end JT - and MB, etc. Too, I think IA should have just named it an IA album/without such an 'obvious connection' to JT and TAAB. Go ahead, laod 'em up and fire away - remember, our manners here, please. I'll volunteer I'm a musical 'snob' which is why I (mostly) enjoyed all the JT efforts which were high in drive and power with awesome musicianship. Having read the 'HE' comments from IA, I've found myself kind-of thinking I may be tiring of IA's way of promoting his upcoming project(s). I'm not as anxious a supporter of IA and his 'new band' as I used to be when he did recorded solo's with a mixed bag of artists. He certainly has earned and deserves to do whatever he feels - so I'll give him that as still love the JT and IA back-catalog - except for TAAB2. Too, I'm not getting hooked by the new title, but again, I'll give it due listening when it arrives and here's to hoping it's a great effort.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 21:48:54 GMT
Prog rock legend Ian Anderson brings new tour to Brum 14 Jan 2014 14:14 Jethro Tull legend to showcase new album ‘Homo Erraticus’ at Birmingham Symphony Hall in Maywww.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/ian-anderson-plays-birmingham-symphony-6506603Prog Rock icon Ian Anderson will be visiting Birmingham Symphony Hall in May - following the release of his new concept album ‘Homo Erraticus’. The 22-date UK tour kicks off in late April, before moving on to Europe and the US. The former Jethro Tull frontman will be performing at the Symphony Hall on May 3. The show will feature Homo Erraticus – an ‘epic voyage into the Progressive Rock pantheon of strangeness’ according to Anderson - in its entirety followed after the intermission by a collection of the artist’s favourite Tull classics. The performance will be illustrated and complemented by video and theatrical settings ‘to bring a tear to the eye’, an enthusiastic Anderson has declared. The new shows follow the success of his ‘Thick As A Brick’ tour – which included a one-off performance at the Royal Albert Hall. Ian Anderson recently won The Prog God Award from Prog Magazine, celebrating the innovators of rock. The people who have inspired generations and have carved a way for others to be at their creative best. A spokesman for the musician said: "There is no one who has pushed the boundaries more than Ian Anderson, who to this day remains immersed in his love for the music. "Fronting seminal Prog outfit Jethro Tull and as a solo artist, Ian Anderson has performed in more than 54 countries over 45 years; he is widely considered an icon of the genre and he’s recognised as the one who introduced the flute to rock music. "With over 60 million albums sold in their career, Tull have been characterised by Anderson’s trademark acoustic textures, created with ethnic flutes and whistles together with acoustic guitar and the mandolin family of instruments. In his most recent solo shows, Anderson has played with orchestras, string quartets and featured soloists. His eclectic acoustic performances are also a hit with fans of the genre." Tickets for Birmingham Symphony Hall wll be £27.50 and £32.50, and are available from 0121 780 3333 or www.thsh.co.uk
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Post by csmoker on Jan 18, 2014 14:00:18 GMT
I am the Tull-Freak formerly known as LongTullTexan. Exited to see Homo Erraticus to be released in the near future. TAAB2 was not one of my favorite attempts by Ian. Maybe this attempt will slip Viagra into the Meta-Mucile.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 18, 2014 16:13:24 GMT
I am the Tull-Freak formerly known as LongTullTexan. Excited to see Homo Erraticus to be released in the near future. TAAB2 was not one of my favorite attempts by Ian. Maybe this attempt will slip Viagra into the Meta-Mucile. Welcome Csmoker !Although TAAB2 is not your favorite cup of tea, I think the Viagra is working well in the future. Did you see the show in Dallas 2012? Long Tull Texan has a nice ring to it.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 18, 2014 17:48:53 GMT
I am the Tull-Freak formerly known as LongTullTexan. Exited to see Homo Erraticus to be released in the near future. TAAB2 was not one of my favorite attempts by Ian. Maybe this attempt will slip Viagra into the Meta-Mucile. Hi csmoker and welcome to The Jethro Tull Forum. There's plenty to do and see here so join in whenever you can and I look forward to reading your contributions. MD
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 18, 2014 18:35:07 GMT
Weren't there a couple of brothers from Texas who were huge Tull fans? They travelled all over hell to see Tull, got in a Rolling Stone article about superfans?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 18, 2014 18:55:49 GMT
Weren't there a couple of brothers from Texas who were huge Tull fans? They travelled all over hell to see Tull, got in a Rolling Stone article about superfans? There were Scott and Ken Green who Graham Smith and I met during the Rock Island tour. Can't remember if they were from Texas or not. Don't know if it was these two you were thinking of.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 18, 2014 20:25:30 GMT
If it's the same guys, one of them got his picture in Rolling Stone looking like Paul Forrester doing Ian.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 19, 2014 10:02:19 GMT
If it's the same guys, one of them got his picture in Rolling Stone looking like Paul Forrester doing Ian. Both were well into the Scottish mode of dress with Scott buying an Anderson kilt in a specialist shop in Inverness. Ken worked as a newspaper journalist in San Antonio, Texas (just found the calling card he gave me in '89) so your original assumption could very well be correct.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 19, 2014 10:33:17 GMT
If it's the same guys, one of them got his picture in Rolling Stone looking like Paul Forrester doing Ian. This it ?
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 19, 2014 17:15:07 GMT
Yup, that's the one...I never played Ian dress up but i did feel a pang of jealousy on the 'superfan' score....well, they traveled more and surely saw more concerts, so with the wisdom of age i can retract the envy I felt when that issue hit the stands.
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Post by futureshock on Jan 21, 2014 20:49:28 GMT
Listening to Tull has never made me want to go fishing in a red vest. I'm a musician, but I guess that makes me a very bad Tull fan. Just don't know the protocol. In high school, I did at one time take two flutes on stage, wrapping one of them very carefully in blue jeans (did an amazing job of cutting it to fit around the keys and stitching it up so it looked like pro work), and told the amazed and shocked audience that I played the only flute that played cords. There's more than one way to win.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 28, 2014 4:07:50 GMT
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson brings his Homo Erraticus tour to Derby's Assembly Rooms www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Jethro-Tull-s-Ian-Anderson-brings-Homo-Erraticus/story-20493375-detail/story.html
Lynne Brighouse talks to Ian Anderson about what inspired his latest album and forthcoming tour.
IAN Anderson will be back on the road again this year, visiting Derby in May with other former members of Jethro Tull.
And, like many other successful performers, he has no intentions of retiring just yet.
"Why would you even consider it when you can still be out there doing what you love, testing and challenging yourself?" says the talented musician who became well known in the 1960s and 1970s for his one-legged flute playing.
In recent months, Ian has been busy developing and recording his new album, which he will tour from spring onwards. It is called Homo Erraticus – Latin for the wandering man.
He says: "The theme I was interested in exploring is our species' tendency to constantly globally migrate.
"The movement of people around the world is a controversial topic at the moment but it can often be discussed in very inward- looking terms.
"It is easily forgotten that all humankind came from the same place originally – Mesopotamia – and that meaningful migration has always taken place. We are an opportunistic species – the grass is always greener, so we go where we imagine there are better prospects.
"Humans have never had a permanent homeland we have always explored. The sense of migration is always there."
Ian is very proud of the heritage of the UK and, although he realises there are real issues to be addressed in terms of how many people Britain can sustain, he would like debates around population movement to be more outward-looking and less inflammatory.
"I'm not a politician; I'm an artist and an entertainer, it is also my job to make people laugh and but also maybe to get angry about things at times, too," he says.
Ian says the style of his new album is very close to his musical origins.
He says: "I have been influenced by many genres over the years. Initially by blues and jazz – then folk music in the early part of my career. Actually church music is there somewhere too, that's what I grew up with. There is evidence of it in many of my songs and that influence is still there.
"Even Indian music has had an impact. It is part of my heritage too from spending many hours eating in Indian restaurants.
"As artists, we soak in all the influences we come across and Britain is a very multi-cultural place these days. I wanted the album to speak about our heritage and culture here but also embrace world music. It doesn't feel so foreign any more and we have integrated and absorbed these influences without even being aware of it at times."
The 66-year-old plans to perform songs from Homo Erraticus in Derby and says there is no substitute for playing live.
"You test your musical skills in a recording studio but it is incomparable with the instant feedback and emotional response of a live audience," he says. "That shared experience is thrilling. Why would I want to give that up?"
WHAT: Ian Anderson WHERE: Derby Assembly Rooms WHEN: May 13
ADMISSIONS: £26 and £30. TICKETS: Call 01332 255800 or visit www.derbylive .co.uk
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Post by billw on Jan 28, 2014 6:42:06 GMT
Thanks for this info, JTull 007. What are the other bands that you are as passionate about. and are they also touring around?
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Post by chea on Jan 28, 2014 14:46:25 GMT
I really look forward to the new work of Ian and the band. I have no idea how will 'be the cover. It would be interesting to know something in advance ...
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Post by Equus on Jan 28, 2014 18:11:56 GMT
I really look forward to the new work of Ian and the band. I have no idea how will 'be the cover. It would be interesting to know something in advance ... I feel exactly the same way, Chea! ...and it's so incredible that Ian is still out there giving it his best...
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Post by journeyman on Jan 29, 2014 0:28:41 GMT
Nice post, Jim. Great to have this new insight into the album. Although, it sounds like it may not be as rocking as we thought? Bluesy and jazzy.. a modern day Catfish Rising?
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Post by journeyman on Jan 29, 2014 0:31:57 GMT
Listening to Tull has never made me want to go fishing in a red vest. I'm a musician, but I guess that makes me a very bad Tull fan. Just don't know the protocol. In high school, I did at one time take two flutes on stage, wrapping one of them very carefully in blue jeans (did an amazing job of cutting it to fit around the keys and stitching it up so it looked like pro work), and told the amazed and shocked audience that I played the only flute that played cords. There's more than one way to win. Had to do a double take on this post--I'm impressed that you had fashioned a denim flute and played it in front of a live audience. Hats off to you, that is pretty damn cool.
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Post by Tull50 on Feb 2, 2014 19:19:42 GMT
www.miusyk.com/ian-anderson-editara-homo-erraticus-14-abril.htmlBy David López Google translator: Ian Anderson will release his new album with the band that he has been following for years, Homo erraticus April 14 . Just then begin a tour that will bring to Spain from 8 to 12 July . We told you the details of the new album as legendary musician. If in 2012 edited the second part of his classic Thick as a brick , whose tour we told you , now , as he confirmed at the time, returned to the music scene to tell the dreams of amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt (1865-1928) that own Gerald Bostock , author of the poem " Thick as a brick" and political review . Parritt achieved " write several prophecies about what would happen in England and also what happened in the past thanks to the delirium that produced malaria. Thus , we can see through the eyes of characters who tell us what happened. Among others is a nomadic Neolithic , a blacksmith of the Iron Age , a Christian monk, the owner of a resort and even Prince Albert . " This version is a bit different from what we were getting at first . Parritt would have fallen from his horse and that punch would have caused you to have this type of dream , has now chosen to malaria as a cause thereof. Please remember that Ian himself, do not know if serious or not , described the album as "progressive metal" but has recently granted occasional interviews a blues magazine so we can expect from it. A point of the cities that will bring his new show confirmed, we're in luck. It shuffles that Ian and his band interpret the new album in its entirety and then celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of Jethro Tull with a review of the classic group. We will keep you informed.
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Post by stormmonkey on Feb 3, 2014 7:45:12 GMT
Bloody brilliant news about the new album. Can't wait to hear it!
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 3, 2014 9:12:48 GMT
Bloody brilliant news about the new album. Can't wait to hear it! Hello Stormmonkey Nice to see you back
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Post by stormmonkey on Feb 3, 2014 12:23:27 GMT
Bloody brilliant news about the new album. Can't wait to hear it! Hello Stormmonkey Nice to see you back Hi nonrabbit, thanks for the welcome back Another album and so soon - FANTASTIC! Ian is really on a roll - but hopefully not the kinda roll pictured above! lol. I'm not sure how a deli-sandwich-flute might sound? Errrr...crap? April 14th not too far away. 'Homo Erraticus' sounds intriguing with all this heavier flute.
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 3, 2014 14:44:52 GMT
Hello Stormmonkey Nice to see you back Hi nonrabbit, thanks for the welcome back Another album and so soon - FANTASTIC! Ian is really on a roll - but hopefully not the kinda roll pictured above! lol. I'm not sure how a deli-sandwich-flute might sound? Errrr...crap? April 14th not too far away. 'Homo Erraticus' sounds intriguing with all this heavier flute. You're right stormmonkey, very much on a roll with a lot of good publicity doing the rounds of the local press. This is from bunkerfan's neck of the woods. www.thejournal.co.uk/I an Anderson back on tour with a new albumBy David WhetstoneMore than 40 years after Jethro Tull's concept album Thick as a Brick, the band's very intelligent frontman Ian Anderson is preparing to release another.
The studio album Homo Erraticus will be unleashed on April 14, just ahead of a tour bringing Anderson to Sage Gateshead on May 16.
The concept behind Thick as a Brick is that it was based on a poem written by a child prodigy called Gerald Bostock.
The album was made to look like a local newspaper, the St Cleve Chronicle & Linwell Advertiser, in which the poem – and its setting to music by Jethro Tull – are reported.
A follow-up concept album called Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock? was released in 2012, with an accompanying website, StCleve.com, having supposedly replaced the defunct newspaper.
Now we are told Bostock has reunited with Anderson as manager on the forthcoming tour with Homo Erraticus featuring new Bostock songs inspired by the unpublishing writings of an amateur historian called Ernest T. Parritt.
The new album will be performed in its entirety at each tour venue along with Tull classics and, say the promoters, “video and theatrics”.
Who knows quite what to expect from the highly inventive Anderson, recently honoured with the Prog God Award from Prog Magazine?
Well, good music and fireworks are certainly on the cards from a man whose band has sold more than 60m albums. For tickets tel: 0191 443 4661 or visit www.sagegateshead.comAfter two magic years on the road with the Thick As A Brick shows, legendary Prog Rock icon Ian Anderson embarks upon a UK tour, following the release of his new concept album ‘Homo Erraticus’ in April.
The 22-date UK tour kicks off in late April, before moving on to Europe and the US. The show will feature Homo Erraticus – an ‘epic voyage into the Progressive Rock pantheon of strangeness’ according to Anderson – in its entirety followed after the intermission by a collection of the artist’s favourite Tull classics. The performance will be illustrated and complemented by video and theatrical settings ‘to bring a tear to the eye’, an enthusiastic Anderson declared.
Following the astonishing success of his ‘Thick As A Brick’ tour – including a one-off performance at the iconic Royal Albert Hall – tickets for the 2014 shows are expected to go fast. An opportunity not to be missed for any Prog addict out there to check out Ian’s latest work, visit Memory Lane once more and enjoy a majestic, unforgettable show.
“After winning the GRAMMY for Best Hard Rock/Metal album back in 1988, this seems like an opportunity to justify that strange and misplaced accolade with a new album to celebrate the more forceful, full-on rock credentials which are found in many of my songs over the last 45 years. It’s not an end to the acoustic and gentler moments but more of an emphasis on the louder aggressive flute style which marked me out from the earliest days of Jethro Tull.” Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson recently won The Prog God Award from Prog Magazine. The Award celebrates the innovators of rock. The people who have inspired generations and have carved a way for others to be at their creative best. There is no one who has pushed the boundaries more than Ian Anderson, who to this day remains immersed in his love for the music.
Fronting seminal Prog outfit Jethro Tull and as a solo artist, Ian Anderson has performed in more than 54 countries over 45 years; he is widely considered an icon of the genre and he’s recognised as the one who introduced the flute to rock music. With over 60 million albums sold in their career, Tull have been characterised by Anderson’s trademark acoustic textures, created with ethnic flutes and whistles together with acoustic guitar and the mandolin family of instruments. In his most recent solo shows, Anderson has played with orchestras, string quartets and featured soloists. His eclectic acoustic performances are also a hit with fans of the genre.
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Post by snaffler on Feb 3, 2014 15:47:16 GMT
if you look on the same page i took the pic with the bloke holding the $500,000 cello above his heed last fri! haha (the journal)
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 3, 2014 16:23:33 GMT
if you look on the same page i took the pic with the bloke holding the $500,000 cello above his heed last fri! haha (the journal) Hope he didn't drop it
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Post by Tull50 on Feb 3, 2014 18:56:35 GMT
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson Announces Third ‘Thick as a Brick’ LPby Nick DeRiso February 2, 2014 9:52 AM ultimateclassicrock.com/jethro-tull-ian-anderson-horno-erraticus/?trackback=fbshare_topMark Metcalfe, Getty Images 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 ‘Home 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.
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Post by Equus on Feb 3, 2014 20:16:05 GMT
Interesting link... www.kscopemusic.com/2014/02/03/ian-andersons-homo-erraticus-released-kscope-14th-april/Ian Anderson’s ‘Homo Erraticus’ to be released through Kscope on 14th April February 3, 2014 in Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull Legendary prog pioneer Ian Anderson has announced the imminent release of new studio album Homo Erraticus. The record will be out on 14th April on the artist’s own label imprint Calliandra Records in conjunction with Kscope, to coincide with Anderson’s 2014 UK tour. In 1972 Jethro Tull released iconic concept album Thick As A Brick, based on a poem by child prodigy Gerald Bostock; in 2012, as fans wondered what happened to Bostock, Ian Anderson explored the different paths his life might have taken in Thick As A Brick 2. With Homo Erraticus enfant prodigy Gerald is back for real. Following a 40 years’ political career, Bostock reunited with Anderson taking the role of tour manager on a string of shows. Homo Erraticus marks his return to songwriting, and it’s based on an unpublished manuscript by amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt (1865-1928). In Homo Erraticus Parritt examines key events of British history with a string of prophecies stretching to the current day and the future; visions of past lives caused by the delirium of malaria generate the characters through whose eyes the stories are told, including a nomadic Neolithic settler, an iron Age blacksmith, a Christian monk, a turnpike innkeeper and even Prince Albert. The album release will be followed by an extensive UK tour, where Homo Erraticus will be performed in its entirety followed by a selection of Tull classics updated with video and theatrics. Tickets – online booking: www.gigantic.com/artist/ian-anderson or from venue box offices (full dates below). Tickets are subject to booking fee. Ian Anderson will be onstage at 7.30pm. There is no support. Ian Anderson recently won The Prog God Award from Prog Magazine, celebrating the innovators of rock who have inspired generations and carved a way for others to be at their creative best. There is no one who has pushed the boundaries more than Ian Anderson, who to this day remains immersed in his love for the music. Fronting seminal Prog outfit Jethro Tull and as a solo artist, Ian Anderson has performed in more than 54 countries over 45 years; he is widely considered an icon of the genre and he’s recognised as the one who introduced the flute to rock music. With over 60 million albums sold in their career, Tull have been characterised by Anderson’s trademark acoustic textures, created with ethnic flutes and whistles together with acoustic guitar and the mandolin family of instruments. In his most recent solo shows, Anderson has played with orchestras, string quartets and featured soloists. His eclectic acoustic performances are also a hit with fans of the genre.
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