JETHRO TULL

JERRY EWING

VENUE THE LONDON PALLADIUM DATE 23/04/2024 “If that didn’t make you depressed, this one certainly will,” chuckles Ian Anderson as he leads the current line-up of Jethro Tull into a barnstorming version of Dark Ages, a chilling look at climate change that Anderson wrote for 1979’s Stormwatch album, although the subject was something the bandleader had been addressing since he wrote Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of The New Day) for 1974’s War Child. Dark Ages had been preceded by Mrs Tibbets, from 2022’s The Zealot Gene, with its strident message warning of the perils of extremism and right-wing populism via the mother of the man who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. Both songs are enhanced, as are all of the evening’s tunes, with bold imagery courtesy…

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