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Sunday 25 March, 18:00 "Life Is A Long Song" repeat
David Randall talks to Ian Anderson

Previous highlights:

GRTR! Archive, Sunday 12 February 2012, 14:00 "Life Is A Long Song" repeat
David Randall talks to Ian Anderson

GRTR! Archive, Saturday 5 November 2011 16:00
Ian Anderson chats to Pete Feenstra in September 2009.

Podcast

"Heroes", Sunday February 28, 21:00 "Life Is A Long Song"
David Randall talks to Ian Anderson

"Heroes", Sunday June 12 2011, 18:00 (repeat)

Playlist

IAN ANDERSON Life Is A Long Song/My God
from Ian Anderson Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull (2005)
JETHRO TULL Living In The Past
from Live In Montreux 2003 (2007)
IAN ANDERSON In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff
from Divinities Twelve Dances With God (1995)
JETHRO TULL Aqualung
from 25th Anniversary Special Edition (1996)
IAN ANDERSON Fly By Night
from Walk Into Light (1983)

Sunday, 28 August 2011 22:00 (Monday 29 August, Friday 2 September 22:00 repeat)

Ian Anderson chats to David Randall about his hatred of festivals and his forthcoming tour in the UK.  Plus our usual mix of new and classic rock.

Podcast

February 2010, Featured Artist

IAN ANDERSON

Elder statesmen of rock maybe, but there seems no slowing down for Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull.  Now in their forty-third year, they embark on an extensive UK tour in February 2010. 

Ian Anderson M.B.E. started out musically in the early sixties in Blackpool and formed the first line-up of the Jethro Tull band in 1967.  He has been the mainstay ever since, together with guitarist Martin Barre who replaced Mick Abrahams in 1969.  The band's album highpoint is generally perceived as "Aqualung", released in 1971.

In spite of many line-up changes through the years, the band have retained their signature sound: a mixture of English folk, rock, blues and progressive.  In the late eighties they even surfed the tide of popular taste and received a Grammy for "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" for the album ' Crest Of A Knave' (1987).

With a band famed for its longevity, inevitably there have been several key anniversary releases: in 1988 a boxed set "20 Years of Jethro Tull" included BBC sessions and outtakes whilst in 1993 the 25th Anniversary celebration came in the shape of a sumptuous cigar box.

Separately, Ian Anderson released his first solo album in 1983 'Into the Light', a collaboration with Peter-John Vitesse who at that time was also keyboard player with Tull.  In 1995 came 'Divinities: Twelve Dances with God", and later 'The Secret Language of Birds' (2000) and 'Rupi's Dance' (2003).

A multi-instrumentalist, Anderson is best-known for his flute playing and almost single-handedly brought that instrument into a rock format, allied to his very visual approach which although easily parodied remains an iconic image of 1970's rock music.

Ian Anderson Tour Dates 2012

April

14th Perth Concert Hall 01738 621 031 £22.50/£25.50/£28.50
15th Glasgow Theatre Royal 0844 871 7627 £25.50/£28.50
17th Newcastle City Hall 0191 261 2606 £25.50/£28.50
18th Liverpool Philharmonic 0151 709 3789 £25.50/£28.50
19th Sheffield City Hall 0114 2 789 789 £25.50/£28.50
20th Blackburn St George's Hall 0844 847 1664 £26.50
21th Harrogate Royal Hall 0845 130 8840 £25.50/£28.50
22th Manchester Opera House 0844 847 2484 £25.50/£28.50
24th Derby Assembly Rooms 01332 255 800 £25.50/£28.50
25th Ipswich Regent Theatre 01473 433100 £25.50/£28.50
27th London Hammersmith Apollo 0843 221 0100 £25/£28.50/£32.50
28th Bristol Colston Hall 0117 922 3686 £25.50/£28.50
29th High Wycombe The Swan Theatre 01494 512 000 £26.50/£29.50
30th Birmingham Symphony Hall 0121 780 3333 £26.50/£29.50

May

2nd Oxford Apollo 0844 847 1588 £25.50/£28.50
3rd Reading Hexagon 0118 960 6060 £25.50/£28.50
4th Guildford G Live 0844 7701 797 £28.50/£31.50
5th Cardiff St David's Hall 029 2087 8444 £25.50/£28.50
6th Southampton Guildhall 023 8063 2601 £25.50/£28.50

 

Featured Heroes

Gig review (2010)

Jethro Tull website