We saw him last year, and he was great.  Plays very big venues in the US.  In the current market place, personally I think that's a below averagely priced ticket.

Go for a curry, then you’ll still hear ‘Windpower’ ….

We were considering going to see Thomas Dolby at the Sub Rooms, Stroud, on Friday.

Frankly, £38.50 a head seems expensive for someone very popular 40 years ago.

I think we may take out our daughter and granddaughter for a slap-up meal instead.

For London-based Tír na nÓg fans...

Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

As this week's show happens to be going out on my birthday (can't remember whether this has occurred before in my 14 years at the controls), I'm playing some absolute favourites, including :

Poco, The Waterboys, Sugar, Big Star, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, REM, Grant Hart, Genesis, Fairport Convention, The High Llamas, Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, Isaac Guillory, Steeleye Span, King Crimson, Richard & Linda Thompson, Ashley Hutchings (feat. Judy Dunlop), The Byrds...

Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :

https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/ See less

That's the pigeon one, isn't it?  Beautiful song.

Yes, they played King of Rome at the end of their set.  Wonderful!

I must agree with you David, I have also seen them many times and have never failed to be enthralled.

I will be seeing them this Thursday headlining the Woodland Stage at Bearded Theory Festival and am genuinely excited.
I believe King of Rome is back in the set which could be embarrassing for me as whenever I have seen them play it I have started bawling my eyes out!!  

My copy of Jethro Tull's Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition arrived yesterday. It has been some years since I have heard either Under Wraps or Fly By Night, so I'm taking a listen and finding I do still enjoy them. They are quite different from much of what went before, and Under Wraps was definitely 'marmite' for many JT fans.  

Like all of the boxsets, it is a lovely job, with a lot of information about the albums, interviews with Ian Anderson, Peggy, Martin Barre and others aboutt he making of, etc.  Each album is presented with the original programmed drums and with updated drum programming (apparently they thought about getting a real drummer in to redo them, but it didn't work).  And there's a live BBC recording from Hammy Odeon (the day after the one recorded on London Fields), and a Bluray with all the music in 5.1 and a couple of videos.

I'm hoping that Crest of a Knave will be the next one out, and then I think I'll have all I want - JT wise, anyway! - to the relief of my wallet!

But these Tull boxsets really are pretty much the gold standard for presentation at a pretty reasonable price, compared to what some people ask for sets with much less quantity or information.