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Scotsman
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Jethro Tull announce UK tour, tickets on sale from Thursday
Jethro Tull - one of the most unique and groundbreaking progressive rock bands of all time - will be performing in the UK from April 19, 2026 starting in Perth and then weaving their way through the country with 19 concerts of music from much of their 24 album catalogue starting with 1968's 'This Was' through to their acclaimed 'Curious Ruminant' released earlier this year. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Tickets for The Curiosity Tour 2026 go on pre-sale from 9am on May 8 at and on general sale directly from the venues at 9am on 9th May. Ian Anderson presents Christmas With Jethro Tull tickets go on sale at 9am on May 2. As formidable as they are iconic, it would be easy to say that Jethro Tull are merely still enjoying the fruits of their early labour as they announce a tour in what will be their 58th year but this couldn't be further from the truth. 'Curious Ruminant' was released in March 2025 and this was preceded by the release of 2022's 'The Zealot Gene' and 2023's 'RökFlöte'. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Add to that over 50 shows a year all over the world, including 'The Seven Decades Tour' in 2024 and it becomes clear that Ian Anderson remains as committed to the creativity of Jethro Tull as he has ever been. Ian Anderson On this tour, Ian will be accompanied by long-standing Tull band musicians David Goodier (bass), John O'Hara (keyboards), Scott Hammond (drums) and new boy Jack Clark (guitar). The show will be enhanced by full-scale video throughout. On announcing the tour Ian Anderson says, 'It was January of 1968 when we began regularly playing at the famous Marquee Club in London. Late in the following year, with growing success, we were able to perform in theatres and concert halls up and down the country much as we do today. 'For me, one advantage of a UK tour is that I can often travel by train much of the time and get to see both countryside and cityscapes alike from the tranquil vantage point of a railway carriage. Michael Portillo with a flute, you might say… Albeit less colourful, since my wardrobe is limited to various shades of grey in order to blend in perfectly with a dank and dreary rainy Monday afternoon at a railway station near you. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Our audiences may have become senior citizens in some cases but, being young at heart, they still venture out to see a bunch of old guys having fun. Which, indeed, we are with our young, nimble and lightning-fast fingers, skittering up and down fretboards and keys with apparent ease and facility. Just don't ask us to put out the recycling or programme the TV controller." Jethro Tull - The Curiosity Tour Jethro Tull - The Curiosity Tour 2026 Tickets available from from 8 May April 2026 19 – Perth, Concert Hall 20 – Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall 22 – Edinburgh, Usher Hall 23 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall Newcastle 25 - Blackburn , King George's Hall 26 – Salford Quays, The Lowry 28 – Liverpool, Philharmonic 29 – Sheffield, City Hall May 2026 2 - Stoke-on-Trent, Victoria Hall 3 – Birmingham, Symphony Hall 5 – Leicester, De Montfort Hall 6 – London, The London Palladium 8 – Basingstoke, The Anvil 9 – Swansea, Brangwyn Hall 10 – Bristol, Beacon Theatre 12 – Truro, Hall for Cornwall 13 – Bournemouth, Pavilion Theatre 15 – Southampton, Guildhall
Glasgow Times
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
English rock band coming to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Jethro Tull, famous for songs like Aqualung and Locomotive Breath, will be performing at the Royal Concert Hall in the city centre on April 20, 2026. It comes as part of the group's Curiosity Tour 2026, which will also take them to the likes of Edinburgh, Liverpool, London and Swansea. READ NEXT: Rock giants to perform in Glasgow as part of upcoming tour The tour follows the release of the Blackpool band's new album, Curious Ruminant, which came out earlier this year. Speaking on the upcoming tour, frontman Ian Anderson said: 'Our audiences may have become senior citizens in some cases but, being young at heart, they still venture out to see a bunch of old guys having fun. Which, indeed, we are with our young, nimble and lightning-fast fingers, skittering up and down fretboards and keys with apparent ease and facility. Just don't ask us to put out the recycling or programme the TV controller." The band first formed back in 1967. READ NEXT: Free library events celebrating VE Day - here's what you need to know Tickets will go on sale at 9am on May 9. Pre-sale tickets will also be available to purchase from 9am on May 8. To purchase tickets, visit
Forbes
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Jethro Tull Scores A Second New Hit Album In Just As Many Months
Jethro Tull's Songs From the Vault – 1975 – 1978 debuts at No. 17 on the U.K.'s Official Rock & ... More Metal Albums chart, marking the band's second hit of 2025. AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: Jethro Tull posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1972. Left to right: John Evan, Ian Anderson, Barriemore Barlow (Barrie Barlow), Martin Barre, Jeffrey Hammond. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns) Jethro Tull is quietly having one of its most successful years in recent memory. The legendary rock act is back on the charts this week with another collection, and this latest win continues what's quickly becoming a noteworthy streak. With two bestselling efforts in just the first half of 2025 alone, the band clearly maintains a solid fan base to this day, which is incredibly difficult for any group. Jethro Tull's Songs From the Vault – 1975–1978 debuts at No. 17 on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart. The ranking, which tracks the U.K.'s top-selling full-lengths and EPs across all corners of the rock spectrum, is once again home to one of the more prolific names in progressive rock. With Songs From the Vault, Jethro Tull earns its twenty-eighth appearance on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart. Impressively, it's the act's second placement on the tally in 2025 alone. Just last month, the group's latest studio full-length Ruminations debuted at No. 1 on the same list. That effort spent five consecutive frames on the ranking before stepping aside—just in time for this archival project to take its place. This week is a crowded one on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart. But even so, Songs From the Vault still claims one of the top debuts of the week, coming in as the tenth-highest new title on the roster. The band lands just behind brand new releases from some of the genre's heaviest hitters, including Those Damn Crows, Epica, Rage Against the Machine, Black Sabbath, and Motörhead. Even Post Malone appears on the chart this frame in a first for the superstar. Songs From the Vault is not another greatest hits repackage. The double LP, which was released as part of Record Store Day, features more than 20 tracks, many of which are making their vinyl debut. Pulled from recording sessions that took place across a pivotal four-year period, the collection highlights rarities, alternate versions, and deep cuts that hardcore fans will appreciate.
Telegraph
23-04-2025
- General
- Telegraph
10 places to visit that will make you proud to be English
These days England often gets a bad press but this 'land of lovely things', as Arthur Mee described it, has given the world plenty to improve the lives of peoples everywhere. Here, on St George's Day, are 10 places to visit that England can be proud of. Runnymede Surrey On June 15 1215, somewhere in this lush green meadow beside the River Thames near Windsor, John, King of England, put his seal to a document that would become the foundation stone of liberty and individual rights for much of the world. Magna Carta was the first recorded attempt to establish basic human rights and the template for constitutions everywhere, including the American Constitution and Bill of Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. Whether contemplating Sir Edward Maufe's Magna Carta Memorial on the slopes of Cooper's Hill, climbing the 50 steps representing the 50 American states at the Kennedy Memorial, enjoying the various art installations dotted around the meadows or just strolling along the river bank beside the rippling Thames, you cannot help but be moved by the thrill of knowing that the rights of man and the rule of law began to take shape right here. Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire This small grey stone farmhouse set in a quiet Lincolnshire valley was the birthplace, on Christmas Day 1642, of the man who gave the world the fundamental laws of science, Isaac Newton. In a small upstairs room Newton laid the foundations of calculus, discovered how light and colour worked, invented the reflecting telescope and set down the principles of motion. Today you can explore the humble rooms where the origins of the modern world were conceived and wander through the orchard where Newton famously saw an apple drop, inspiring his discovery of the laws of gravity. If you visit at the right time of year, you can watch an apple drop from the very same tree, which still flourishes in the orchard. 19. The Street Crowmarsh Gifford, Berkshire It was while living in this quaint half-timbered cottage on his father's farm, Howbery, in 1701, that gentleman farmer Jethro Tull, irritated by the slow and wasteful process of sowing seed by hand, invented the world's first agricultural machine. He experimented with his new machine on the fields behind the house and, once perfected, his horse-drawn 'seed drill' could accurately sow three rows at once, saving a huge amount of time and waste. Jethro Tull's seed drill inspired the development of modern mechanised farming and helped improve the productivity of agriculture across the world. Most of the fields on which Jethro Tull experimented are built over but some of the first fields to be ploughed by machine survive and can be seen from the footpath that runs along the opposite bank of the Thames. Jethro Tull himself would have known Crowmarsh Gifford's early Norman church and two ancient pubs, the 14th-century Queen's Head and the 17th-century Bell. As well as inventing the horse-drawn seed drill, Tull also inspired the eponymous 1970s folk-rock band Jethro Tull. Brompton by Sawdon North Yorkshire In his small workshop in the garden of Brompton Hall, Sir George Cayley became the first man to identify the four principals of aerodynamics and modern aviation design: weight, lift, drag and thrust. Using these principles he designed a flying machine which, in the summer of 1853, achieved the first ever manned flight of a fixed wing aircraft when his coachman took off from nearby Wydale Hall and flew 900 feet across the garden valley. Brompton Hall is now a school but Sir George Cayley's workshop, displaying a model of his flying machine, is visible from the main road and can be visited by appointment. There is also an awe-inspiring walk from Snainton, further down the road, to the valley which saw that first flight in 1853. Ironbridge Shropshire The world's first iron bridge, built in 1779, spans the River Severn as the earliest and most potent symbol of the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, a period which forged the modern world. You can walk over the bridge and along the river valley to nearby Coalbrookdale to see the remains of the Old Furnace where, in the early 18th century, Abraham Darby perfected the technique of smelting iron ore with coke rather than charcoal, thus making the process easier and cheaper. Within walking distance are the remains of industrial sites that sprang up near the iron forges and various museums telling the story of how this quiet Shropshire valley changed the world. Wadesmill Hertfordshire A small monument beside the road out of Wadesmill marks the spot where Thomas Clarkson rested on his way home to London from Cambridge. It was here that Clarkson, shocked by what he had learnt while researching an essay on slavery for a competition at Cambridge University, determined to devote the rest of his life to ridding the world of 'these calamities'. This was not the first step but certainly the most significant step on the road to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, making this quiet corner of England one of the most precious places in human history. Locomotion Shildon, County Durham The first journey made by the first train on the first public railway in the world began at Shildon on September 27 1825 when Locomotion No 1, built by George and Robert Stephenson, was attached to 12 coal wagons, 21 wagons fitted with seats and one experimental passenger coach before steaming off to Darlington and then Stockton with some 600 people aboard. Railways transformed the way we lived, socially, economically and politically, connecting different parts of the country for the first time and enabling people, goods, perishable foods, letters and newspapers to be moved around quickly and cheaply. Shildon became the world's first 'railway town' and today a trail has been created linking the various landmarks of that fateful day, including the railway workshop and goods shed and the coal drops where the engines were refuelled. Locomotion No 1 itself can be seen in the main museum along with other ground-breaking locomotives. Greenwich Observatory London Greenwich sits at the centre of the world. The Greenwich or Prime Meridian marks 0 degrees longitude and divides the world into East and West, while from 1844 until 1972 Greenwich Mean Time was the international standard time by which the world set its clocks. Greenwich was chosen because the observatory had been instrumental in calculating new methods of navigation and time-keeping and because most ships already used sea charts based on the Greenwich Meridian; in the late 19th century, over half the world's trade passed by Greenwich on its way to and from the Port of London. Greenwich Park provides a large and beautiful green space with delightful walks and magnificent views over London, while much fun can be had stepping back and forth from East to West across the Prime Meridian. Battersea Park London Sport brings the world together and while England invented many of the world's favourite sports such as lawn tennis, rugby and cricket, it is football that has become a truly global game enjoyed by hundreds of millions. It was in Battersea Park on January 9 1864 that the first football match under Football Association rules was played, rules that were eventually adopted around the world. There is a plaque commemorating the event on the park's cricket pavilion and you can still kick a football around on or near the turf that hosted that momentous match. Liverpool Liverpool gave the world the most famous and influential rock band of all time. The Beatles created new sounds, revolutionised recording techniques, invented the concept album and album covers as works of art, were the first to use videos as a marketing tool and kickstarted youth culture to become the sound and symbol of the Sixties. Liverpool has been transformed from the run-down city of the 1950s and 1960s which moulded the Beatles, but there are walking tours that visit many of the landmarks from that time including their birthplaces and childhood homes, the places that inspired songs (such as Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane) and the venues where they performed. The most famous music venue in the world, the iconic Cavern Club in the city centre where the Beatles gave their early performances, has been refurbished and still hosts live music.
Forbes
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Rock Band Yes Charts A ‘New' Album As Fans Return To A Classic
Yes has been together since 1968, on and off. The group has taken a handful of hiatuses, and the lineup has changed quite a bit since the beginning, with well over a dozen musicians spending time as members and then departing. Despite all the shake-ups and the many years that have passed since Yes began releasing music, the group is still popular in the United Kingdom. The English progressive rockers score another hit album in that country this week, not with a brand new production, but with a decades-old set that has become a bestseller once more – and in spectacular fashion. Close to the Edge reaches five U.K. charts for the first time this week. It opens inside the top 40 on all but one of them and even cracks the top 10 on one, showing that even after so much time, Yes still lays claim to a fanbase that will support anything the musicians release — even if some of the music featured on the successful project has already been available for a long, long time. Yes's Close to the Edge kicks off its time on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart at No. 8. This is a particularly busy frame on the ranking of the bestselling projects that can be classified as rock, hard rock, or metal, as No. 8 only gives Yes the sixth-highest ranking debut. The pioneering outfit comes in behind new releases by Jethro Tull, The Wildhearts, Spiritbox, Bob Mould, and Whitechapel. Throughout the decades, Yes has collected a lucky 13 top 10s on the Official Rock & Metal Albums chart. That is slightly more than half of the 24 titles that the group has pushed to the genre-specific roster, which did not exist when the band's first albums were released. Close to the Edge also enters the top 40 on the Official Vinyl Albums (No. 18), the Official Physical Albums (No. 38), and the Official Albums Sales charts (No. 39). The project only fails to become a top 40 win on the Official Album Downloads ranking, where it starts its run at No. 49. Released in the fall of 1972, Close to the Edge went on to become both a critical and commercial smash and helped take the group to a new level of fame. A super deluxe edition was recently released, which comes with five discs. The first is the original album, which has been remastered. The second is filled with remixes and instrumentals helmed by Steven Wilson, and the third CD is packed with rarities. Discs four and five contain recordings from a concert at the Rainbow in London that was taped in December 1972.
