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The Pallas Cat is a small wild cat living in Central Asia from Western China to…

Jethro Tull’s famous concept album “Thick As A Brick” was…

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has been nominated for three awards at the 2014 Progressive Music Awards…

In the video below, Ian Anderson plays “Enter the Uninvited” from his new album Homo Erraticus…

Join the Global Campaign against IED’s on Sunday, October 5, 2014 for a special night with…

Here is a gallery of photos from Ian Anderson’s sold out show at the O2 Shepherds…

Alongside Thick As A Brick, 1973′s A Passion Play is Jethro Tull’s most overtly Progressive and…

You can now stream and download for free ‘Enter The Uninvited’ taken from Ian Anderson’s forthcoming…

The official website for Ian Anderson’s upcoming album ‘Homo Erraticus’ has launched. You’ll find audio…

The new album from Jethro Tull frontman to be released on Calliandra Records in conjunction…

Legendary prog pioneer Ian Anderson has announced the imminent release of new studio album Homo Erraticus…

Gigantic.com are running a competition where if you answer the question correctly, you could be in…

Volume 2 of the A New Day Tapes collects more exclusive in-depth interviews with Jethro Tull…

A short Christmas message from Ian Anderson’s Homo Erraticus recording sessions.

After the last two TAAB shows (for all time?) in the Czech Republic, sniffle sniffle, we…

Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with…

Mandoki’s Soulmates is the collective title for a ever-evolving band of musicians from several disciplines. Jazzers…

Another US / Canada tour draws to a close as we wend our way from Edmonton…

Violinist and composer Anna Phoebe has been thrilling audiences around the world with her dazzling live…

A DVD/2CD ‘Collector’s Edition’ of Benefit (1970), one of Jethro Tull’s finest and most lyrically personal…

“Prog is FUN!” began award recipient Ian Anderson last night at the Prog Magazine Awards, held…

Following the release last year of the 40th anniversary edition of Thick as a Brick, on…

My dear friend and long-standing German promoter, Fritz Rau, died aged 83 on Monday 19th August….

Jethro Tull’s 40th Anniversary reissue of the 1972 classic ‘Thick As A Brick’ has been nominated…

So – here we are with the new-look website. Much of the archival content remains for…

Another USA tour so must be time for another live webcast. Hear audio from Ian’s TAAB/TAAB2…

Ian Anderson and his band will kick off the 2014 touring schedule with 22 shows across…

Time to break out the old turntables for a highly limited 7” vinyl edition of ‘Living…

Ian will perform the classic concept album in its entirety for the first time since 1972…

A fantastic new limited collection celebrating Tull’s classic progressive masterpiece, Thick as a Brick, is hitting…

I am in my hotel room in Stockholm, feeling a very long way from home. Sometimes…

Oh, the changing fortunes of traveling musicians. One minute Donald Trump’s white stretch limo is shuttling you…

We had a fantastic European tour taking in sights and places, old and new in Western and…

2001 began with a series of interesting and varied musical assignments. NAMM came and went with an…

I was astonished to discover that the bottom diameter of the Hubbell Telescope is only marginally larger…

OK, so it’s October…no need to work yourself up into a lather. There’s a lot of stuff…

It was a hot night in Budapest…… And in Brno, Prague, etc., all the way to Freiburg,…

It has been almost a month of transition from studio work to preparing for concert touring again….

A rough month, in the sense of having to work some pretty long hours on the vocal…

We holidayed (vacationed) with lots of rich Americans on board the MS Lucky Windstar, cruising to the…

Hallo, Look, I don’t know much about this Fan Club thing, but Ian explained that I was…

Having devoted most of 2008 to the dubious celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of Jethro Tull,…

Dear followers, fans, friends and those of idle curiosity, Many best wishes for a fruitful and joyous…

Well, as the old year has drawn to a close, I can reflect on a busy 12…

Just back from a quiet week in Switzerland where we visited a cheese factory, drove around the…

Riding the Jumbo beast, as we speak, back from sunny Santiago, Chile. I have just played a…

Oh, what a lot of office work since we finished the UK tour. Concert tours to set…

“Over here in India, we are reading that some of your band members are turning into ladies…..”…

News Update: February 2003 Well, no news is, in this case, good news. The last few weeks...

Imagine a slightly saucy talk show with too much music: or a music concert with a tendency…

September announced the foliage season for me with the end of our August tour spilling over to…

On the eve of our departure for another US summer tour, I should start by apologising to…

Well, the good news is that the first little Habanero seedling popped his head up through the…

Happy new year from all of us at JethroTull.com to you, dear readers. We have been busy…

In the last few weeks, there has been much for us all to talk and think about…

Another train, another day speeding up the mighty Rhine (down again, tomorrow). Since we last spoke, dear…

God bless Deutsche Bahn and all those who roll with her. I write this from the train…

Off to Nashville! Tull head to the music capitol of the USA, at least that’s how the…

I suppose that the most significant news at the moment is the addition of new tour dates…

Well, last year of the False Millennium is now behind us and the glorious voyage into the…

We are nearing the end of the second leg of our North American tour with a total…

Tull are now launched upon their US tour and currently concluding the Texan dates at the end…

It has been a long seven months since we began the touring schedule for 1999: Europe,…

The busy period of touring continues with the band returning from the USA to play concerts in…

Half way through the US tour, Tull are briefly back in the UK to enjoy much-needed rest…

Tull have completed the first major series of tours for 1999. These consisted of 33 shows in…

Jethro Tull are back on the road after four months of work in the studio writing, rehearsing…

Hard on the heels of the last recording sessions for the Tull album, I am now ensconced…

Recording: More and more work has been carried out on the Tull album with a period of…

Well, here we are at the mid-point of a second month of working intermittently on the new…

Well, what can I say? The web-site took a little longer than anticipated to get up…