- - Legendary '70s Rock Band Announces Massive 2026 Tour Following Recent Comeback

Jacqueline Burt CoteDecember 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM

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It's been a big year for Jethro Tull, the rock band behind such classics as "Locomotive Breath" and "Aqualung," and 2026 is shaping up to be equally as epic. Following the success of their 2025 album Curious Ruminant, the band just announced a huge tour for next year that's sure to thrill countless fans.

As Ultimate Classic Rock reported, frontman Ian Anderson, 78, scheduled over 40 dates across the U.K. and Europe for the spring of 2026, with almost half of those shows taking place in England, Wales and Scotland, along with concerts in Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain, Austria and Denmark.

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Though Anderson "retired" Jethro Tull in the early 2010s, saying he preferred to make music under his own name, the band made a comeback with 2022's The Zealot Gene, which was the first album to be released as a Jethro Tull offering in almost 20 years (though Anderson was the only remaining member from the group's most well-known lineup).

Ian Anderson said Mick Jagger didn't 'set the bar very high'

In a July 2025 interview, flautist and singer Anderson opened up about the challenges of performing after over 50 years of playing live shows.

"You can be physically animated, but there's a degree to which you can only do so much if you're playing a flute," Anderson said, per Blabbermouth.

"If you are Mick Jagger and you're just running around with sort of shout-out vocals, then, yeah, no disrespect, but Mick Jagger didn't set the bar very high in terms of vocal skills right from the very beginning," he continued.

"So he's a shouter, and he doesn't have to really hit the notes or necessarily be terribly great on intonation or phrasing or anything. He's a shouter, and he runs around in a very animated way, and that's great for someone who's — whatever — a couple of years older than me, or three years older than me. That's fine. But it's not that easy if you're trying to play a flute, which is in itself quite a…You have to really try and maintain a lot of balance and a very, very delicate touch with the instrument and the contact with your mouth...So there is a limit to what you can do," Anderson explained.

Fans hoping to see Anderson test those limits live, take note: Tickets are on sale now through the band's official website.

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