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6-7/1/68 | Abbey Road Studios | London, UK |
| Recording 'Sunshine Day'. |
8/1/68 | ? | London?, UK |
| At a band meeting, it was decided to use the name 'Jethro Tull' on the single. |
15/1/68 | Bay Hotel | Sunderland, UK |
| The first ever 'Jethro Tull' concert.
Precise venue unconfirmed |
16/1/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Booked and billed as 'Navy Blue', the band introduced themselves as 'Jethro Tull'. Supporting Black Cat Bones. |
26/1/68 | The South Bank | Grimsby, UK |
2/2/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| The first appearence billed as Jethro Tull; supporting Savoy Brown Blues Band. |
5/2/68 | Speakeasy | London, UK |
9/2/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
16/2/68 | Release of 'Sunshine Day' single b/w 'Aeroplane'. |
10/2/68 | Manchester University | Manchester, UK |
| A member of Money recalls that they and Tull supported Cream at this venue on 18/1/69. However, Cream's last show was in Nov. 1968.
Ian recalls supporting Cream, possibly in autumn 1968, but Cream were in the USA.
Cream played at this venue on this date – the support bands aren't recorded, but might this be the concert Money and Ian recall? |
16/2/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Supporting The Spirit Of John Morgan. |
26/2/68 | Cromwellian | London, UK |
7/3/68 | Metro Club | Birmingham, UK |
| Appearing at the regular Thursday night Blues evening. |
8/3/68 | Jazz and Folk Club, Argus Butterfly | Peterlee, UK |
15/3/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Supporting Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. |
18/3/68 | Star Hotel | Croydon, UK |
29/3/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Supporting Fleetwood Mac. |
6/4/68 | Magic Village | Manchester, UK |
11/4/68 | Railway Hotel | Bishops Stortford, UK |
12/4/68 | Candlelight Club | Scarborough, UK |
14/4/68 | Britannia Rowing Club | Nottingham, UK |
15/4/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Billed as appearing with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, but Tull didn't play. |
16/4/68 | Fishmongers Arms | Wood Green, London, UK |
18/4/68 | Rambling Jack's Blues Club, The Railway Hotel | Bishops Stortford, UK |
| Audience: 136. Tull were paid £20. |
20/4/68 | Cat Balou Club | Grantham, UK |
22/4/68 | Star Hotel | Croydon, UK |
| Setlist as recalled by Glenn Cornick:
Serenade To A Cuckoo, Cat's Squirrel, Rock Me Baby, So Much Trouble, Beggar's Farm, Dharma For One, My Sunday Feeling, It's Breaking Me Up, A Song for Jeffrey, Fat Man, Someday The Sun Won't Shine For You, Sunshine Day |
23/4/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Supporting The Who. Glenn's 21st birthday. |
?/?/68 | ICI Fibres Club | Pontypool, UK |
| A Saturday afternoon, the exact date of this show isn't known; could be any time between May and August. Definitely before the release of 'This Was'. |
?/?/68 | Tin Hat Club | Kettering, UK |
| Date not known, but considering the venue was a small corregated shack by Kettering Town football club, it was probably early in the year!
At this show and others, Tull used two VOX AC 30 amps as a PA system. |
3/5/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Headlining the Marquee's Blues Night for the first time. Support: The New Nadir. |
5/5/68 | Queens Stagg Hounds | Ascot, UK |
17/5/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Also appearing (joint headline?): The Taste (Rory Gallagher's band). |
20/5/68 | Nags Head, Battersea | London, UK |
23/5/68 | Sound Techniques Studio, Chelsea? | London?, UK |
| Preliminary recording session for 'This Was'. |
24/5/68 | Blues Loft (Nag's Head) | High Wycombe, UK |
25/5/68 | Bluesville '68 (Farmers Inn) | Thornbury (Bradford), UK |
26/5/68 | ? | Coventry, UK |
| Replacing Jeff Beck, who cancelled |
29/5/68 | Hub Club | Marlow, UK |
30/5/68 | Mecca Ballroom | Hull, UK |
| Venue unconfirmed. If that was the venue, Tull were apparently booked by Ed Bicknell, subsequently Dire Straits' manager, and paid £400. That's a lot of money for 1968, especially for that point in Tull's career, so is in doubt.
Supporting evidence suggests that the booking described was later in the year, even December (in which case, it was almost certainly cancelled), though Tull may still have played a different concert in Hull on this date. |
31/5/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Support: The Spirit of John Morgan (see 16/2). |
13/6/68 | Sound Techniques Studio, Chelsea | London, UK |
| Proper start of recording sessions for 'This Was' (until 23 August). |
14/6/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Support: Duster Bennett. |
15/6/68 | Klooks Kleek | West Hampstead, UK |
18/6/68 | Klooks Kleek | West Hampstead, UK |
21/6/68 | Candlelight Club | Scarborough, UK |
23/06/68 | The Swan | Billingham, UK |
| Venue was 'The Tent', a ballroom attached to the rear of the pub. |
??/??/68 | Kirk Levington Country Club | Yarm, UK |
| Date unknown, but after Billingham and before Mick left in November. |
26/6/68 | Students Union, Sheffield University | Sheffield, UK |
| Supporting Pink Floyd.
Tickets cost 7s 6d (7 shillings and sixpence). |
28/6/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Two shows? Support: Tramline. |
29/6/68 | Hyde Park | London, UK |
| Britain's first large-scale free outdoor concert, including Roy Harper, Jethro Tull, Tyrannosaurus Rex & Pink Floyd, in that order.
Tull set included:
Cat's Squirrel, Serenade To A Cuckoo, Stormy Monday, Dharma For One |
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5/7/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Support: Thackery. |
11/7/68 | Railway Hotel | Wealdstone, UK |
17/7/68 | Toby Jug | Tolworth, UK |
19/7/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Support: Dynaflow Blues Band. |
20/7/68 | Piccadilly Studio 1 | London, UK |
| Radio session for 'Top Gear', broadcast 4/8/68, repeated 22/9/68. Last track only on the rebroadcast.
Released officially on the 40th Anniversary edition of 'This Was'.
A Song For Jeffrey, Serenade To A Cuckoo, My Sunday Feeling, So Much Trouble; Cat's Squirrel |
20/7/68 | Magic Village | Manchester UK |
| Paid £50 (cash) for a 90-min (two set) concert. |
26/7/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Not on the July '68 Marquee programme, which advertised Ten Years After for this date; perhaps they cancelled and Tull appeared instead. |
2/8/68 | Bluesville 68, Hornsey Wood Tavern Manor House | London, UK |
4/8/68 | Mothers | Birmingham, UK |
9/8/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Support: Black Cat Bones (see 16/1). |
11/8/68 | Sunbury Race Course | Kempton Park, UK |
| Eighth National Jazz & Blues Festival
Tull played on the Sunday evening, as did: The Incredible String Band, Tramline, Dynaflow Blues Band, Chicken Shack, Fairport Convention, John Mayall, Spencer Davis, Traffic.
On other days of the festival: Deep Purple, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Alexis Korner, The Cream, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Marmalade, Al Stewart, Ten Years After, Taste, The Nice, Joe Cocker, Arthur Brown.
Tull's 'breakthrough' gig, in front of their first large audience: ~50,000.
Also David Palmer's first experience of Tull, as an audience member. |
16/8/68 | Candlelight Club | Scarborough, UK |
21/8/68 | Mothers | Birmingham, UK |
23/8/68 | Sound Techniques Studio, Chelsea | London, UK |
| End of recording sessions for 'This Was' (started 13 June). |
23/8/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Support: Duster Bennett. |
24/8/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Two shows. Not listed on the August '68 Marquee programme, so presumably added at the last minute, following their success at Kempton Park. |
27/8/68 | Blaises | London, UK |
28/8/68 | Country Club | London, UK |
29/8/68 | Railway Hotel | Wealdstone, UK |
31/8/68 | Van Dike Club | Plymouth, UK |
| Playing at the club's opening night, supported by Gethsemane, Martin Barre's band. |
3/9/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Tull's first headline appearence on the Marquee's 'Star Night' (previous appearences all 'Blues Night'). Support: East Of Eden. |
4/9/68 | Rambling Jack's Blues Club (Railway Hotel) | Bishop's Stortford, UK |
| Audience: 240. Tull were paid £30. |
5/9/68 | Le Metro Club | Birmingham, UK |
6/9/68 | Grand Hotel | Felixstowe, UK |
| 20:00 start. |
7/9/68 | Magic Village | Manchester, UK |
9/9/68 | Nags Head, Battersea | London, UK |
20/9/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| The usual 'Blues Night' residency appearence. Support: The Love Sculpture. |
21/9/68 | Mothers | Birmingham, UK |
23/9/68 | Edmonton Cooks Ferry Inn | London, UK |
23/9/68 | Resurrection Blues Club, Black Bull | London, UK |
| Late show, after the Cooks Ferry Inn gig. |
29/9/68 | Fairfield Hall | Croydon, UK |
| Part of Croydon Gala, the near-4-hour show was titled 'Olympop' and in aid of the British Olympic Appeal Fund. Compered by John Peel.
Running order: Jethro Tull, The Eclection, David Ackles, The Alan Price Set - [Interval] - Spooky Tooth, The Nice, Julie Driscoll & The Brian Auger Trinity.
Tull, Alan Price & Julie Driscoll were filmed for the TV show 'Colour Me Pop'. |
5/10/68 | Pop Club | Brøndby, København, Denmark |
6/10/68 | Star Club | København, Denmark |
11/10/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Support: John Morgan. |
13/10/68 | Hotel Leofric | Coventry, UK |
15/10/68 | Royal Albert Hall | London, UK |
| An afternoon benefit gig (apparently for Czechs stranded in the UK), with other blues bands. |
16/10/68 | Toby Jug | Tolworth, UK |
19/10/68 | Lyceum Ballroom | London, UK |
| 'Midnite Rave' organised by Brunel University Students' Union and running from 00:30 (19/10/68) to 07:00.
Artists appearing: Tull, Arthur Brown, Alan Bown, Elmer Gantry, The Who (headlining).
Information taken from a reproduction poster, presumed to be genuine. |
22/10/68 | Fishmongers Arms | Wood Green, London, UK |
24/10/68 | ? | London?, UK |
| Appearing on the 'Time for Blackburn's' TV show, broadcast at 7 pm. Presumably recorded the same day, or even live, but that's not verified. Glenn C. has no memory of Tull having played on the show at all, though it is mentioned in a contemporary press report. |
24/10/68 | Red Lion Hotel | Leytonstone, UK |
25/10/68 | UK release of 'This Was' Highest chart position: 10 |
26/10/68 | London College of Printing | London, UK |
29/10/68 | Crown Hotel | Birmingham, UK |
31/10/68 | Blues Scene ('Jimmy's') | Brighton, UK |
1/11/68 | California Ballroom | Dunstable, UK |
| Support: Killing Floor. |
2/11/68 | University College | London, UK |
2/11/68 | Chalk Farm Roundhouse | London, UK |
5/11/68 | Piccadilly Studio 1 | London, UK |
| Radio session for 'Top Gear', broadcast 15/12/68.
Love Story, Dharma for One, Stormy Monday, Beggar's Farm
Released officially on the 40th Anniversary edition of 'This Was'. |
5/11/68 | Klooks Kleek | West Hampstead, UK |
8/11/68 | New Marquee Club | Leeds, UK |
| Support: The Amazing Friendly Apple.
Tickets cost 7/6. Sold out (capacity: 1,200), with long queues turned away. Tull were paid £100. |
9/11/68 | Town Hall | Glastonbury, UK |
13/11/68 | 'Velvet Underground', Victoria Restaurant | Chesterfield, UK |
15/11/68 | Hornsey Wood Tavern | London, UK |
| Supported by Gethsemane. Martin Barre received an invitation to audition for Tull. |
16/11/68 | 'A university or college' | ?, UK |
| An audience member recalls a concert at UWIST, Caerdydd, introduced by John Peel, for which Tull were paid only ~£50 as 'This Was' had yet to be released at the time of booking. This date fits the recollection. |
23/11/68 | Magic Village | Manchester, UK |
24/11/68 | Frolicking Kneecap | Market Harborough, UK |
| The oddly-named club was situated above a pub.
Date unconfirmed, but near-certain. Afternoon concert.
At this show and others, Tull used two VOX AC 30 amps as a PA system. |
24/11/68 | Mothers | Birmingham, UK |
| Support: possibly Earth (which later became Black Sabbath). Their lead guitarist was Tony Iommi, who was asked to audition for Tull.
Evening concert, attended (introduced?) by John Peel.
A newspaper advert mentions Peel (so he presumably had a greater role than audience member) but not any support band, and the venue's archives don't report Earth having appeared on this date. It's been suggested that Earth supported Tull at a different Birmingham venue, Le Metro, on a different date.
Returning from this gig, Mick was told he was leaving. |
26/11/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Tull headlined 'Star Night' for the second time; their last Marquee appearence. Support: Bakerloo Blues Line. |
?/11?/68 | Jimmy's | Brighton, UK |
| Tull played here in 'late 1968'; the precise date is unknown.
Audience: ~60, sitting on the floor.
An audience member recalls that Ian shared out cigarettes and held his own between the frets of his guitar as he played |
29/11/68 | Van Dike Club | Plymouth, UK |
| Listed in 'Melody Maker.
Supported by Gethsemane - could Martin have been invited to audition for Tull after this concert, rather than the 15/11/68 show? That might be a better match to Martin's own recollection. |
30/11/68 | London School Of Economics | London, UK |
| Mick Abrahams' last concert with Tull. |
0?/12/68 | ? | London, UK |
| Auditions for a new guitarist. Tony Iommi got the job. |
12/12/68 | Rediffusion Studios, Wembley | London, UK |
| Rolling Stones Rock'N'Roll Circus
Due to time restrictions, Tull mimed. It was originally thought that Ian was the only member to perform live, but Glenn recalls that Ian mimed too. Note that this means Tony Iommi never played live as a member of Tull, and though the Black Sabbath 'Archangel Rides Again' bootleg includes a track from this performance, no member of Black Sabbath plays on it!
Appearence was to feature both 'Fat Man' and 'A Song for Jeffrey', but the former was dropped. |
1?/12/68 | | London, UK |
| Tony went back to Birmingham, and Martin was given a second, more private audition famously without an amplifier. He was asked to join. |
14/12/68 | Union Ballroom (Uni. of Newcastle) | Newcastle, UK |
| Cancelled.
Support would have been West Side Story. 20:00 start, 23:30 curfew. |
20/12/68 | Marquee Club | London, UK |
| Cancelled |
24/12/68 | Rehearsal Room | Soho, London, UK |
| Martin Barre joined Tull. He told his parents he wouldn't be home for christmas, then the band rehearsed straight through the holiday, in a rehearsal room near Leicester Square Underground station. |
30/12/68 | Winter Gardens | Penzance, UK |
| Martin Barre's first concert with Tull.
Also Clive's birthday. |
31/12/68 | Mothers | Birmingham, UK |
| Also playing: Savoy Brown, Bakerloo Blues Line. |
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