Title Ian Anderson 2012-04-21 Grand Royal Hall, Harrogate, UK (Aud) (SPAR019)
Date 21-April-2012
Venue Grand Royal Hall, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Country England
Type Audience
Quality A (Exc Aud.)
Media 2CD-R

Billed as Jethro Tull's - Ian Anderson performs Thick As A Brick 1 & 2

Recording location: Stage Center Right
Recorded and transferred by: Sparci2000

Lineage: Recorded on Pocketrax CX @48k > SD Card -> Down Sampled to 44khz >Tracked on Adobe Audition > TLH > Flac 8.

Sound as recorded, no editing or noise reduction to music.

This is an accurate recording of how it sounded to the audience on the night.

Artwork Included

For Trade Only, Do Not Buy or Sell, Do Not Encode to a Lossy Format.

The show started with the various band members dressed in brown overalls and caps dusting down the mike stands, amps and speakers, before the introduction video kicks in on the large screen at the back of the stage.

Ryan O’Donnell is added to the band as a second vocalist, acting out the lyrics and screen shots shown on the backdrop.

As with the 1972 shows a phone call interrupts the music, but this time it’s Anna Phoebe the violinist who toured with Tull a few years ago. Ian asks her to call back in two minutes as he’s in the middle of a concert. A few moments late Anna appears via SKYPE on the concert screen playing along with the middle bit of Thick As A Brick pt. 1.

There is the usual weather report and an informative moment on the awareness of prostrate cancer. Thick As A Brick pt 2 continues in full, before the interval.

The second half of the concert consists of Thick As A Brick 2 in it’s entirety, starting with a video from St. Cleve and ending with a video outro on the large screen.

There seamed to be some sound issues, with the vocal levels sometimes quite low, also the Bass was very subdued.

All said and done the concert was very enjoyable, entertaining and the music well played. The new stuff in my opinion is excellent and sounds better the more you listen to it.

If you get the chance to see Ian and his band then grab it with both hands and of course buy the new CD.

Band Members

Ian Anderson - Flute and Acoustic Guitar and Vocal
John O'Hara - Piano, Hammond Organ and Accordion
David Goodier - Bass and Glockenspiel
Florian Opahle - Electric Guitar
Scott Hammond - Drums and Percussion
Ryan O'Donnell - Song, Dance, Props and Sweeping

Set List

Disc One - THICK AS A BRICK - 50:27
01 Intro - 1:10
02 Thick As A Brick part 1 - 23:05
03 News & Weather - 0:45
04 Touchy Areas - 3:27
05 Thick As A Brick part 2 - 22:00

Disc Two - THICK AS A BRICK 2 - 60:41
06 Tuffty's Intro - 3:21
07 From A Pebble Thrown - 2:56
08 Pebble Instrumental - 3:42
09 Might-Have-Beens - 0:51
10 Upper Sixth Loan Shark - 1:18
11 Banker Bets, Banker Wins - 4:40
12 Swing It Far - 3:26
13 Adrift and Dumbfounded - 4:23
14 Old School Song - 3:13
15 Wootton Bassett Town - 3:41
16 Power and Spirit - 1:59
17 Give Till It Hurts - 1:14
18 Cosy Corner - 1:32
19 Shunt and Shuffle - 2:15
20 A Change of Horses - 7:46
21 Confessional - 3:08
22 Kismet In Suburbia - 4:16
23 What-Ifs, Maybes and Might-Have-Beens - 3:37
24 Tuffty's Outro - 3:24

Total Running Time :01:11:09

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