Three consecutive charting studio albums. A tour that just quietly grew a spine and stretched nine months further than originally planned. Jethro Tull‘s Curious Ruminant campaign — already a dense European run — now reaches September 16, 2027, with newly confirmed dates across Spain, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland spanning three continents. The band resumes October 27 in Groningen, Netherlands, and doesn’t stop until Nuremberg’s Meistersingerhalle closes things out. Meanwhile, Ian Anderson has early ideas for a follow-up album but no recording schedule. He’s choosing stages over studios, for now.
From Dutch Concert Halls to Turkish Stages: The Late-2026 Leg
Nearly 20 dates across seven countries anchor a dense autumn schedule before the year is out.
Starting in the Netherlands — Groningen, Nijmegen, Hoorn, Rotterdam — the tour moves through Germany, Switzerland, and Turkey before landing at Vienna’s Wiener Konzerthaus on November 23, one of Europe’s most storied concert venues, whose prestige rivals that of any classical musician‘s dream stage. The UK stretch wraps December 3–4 inside Chelmsford Cathedral and Ely Cathedral, settings that are either deeply atmospheric or perfectly suited to a band that once built a concept album around a broadsheet newspaper. The leg closes December 18 in Bonn.
2027 Confirmed Dates
The newly announced dates push the campaign through three seasons across six countries.
- Feb. 2 — Lingen, Germany, Emland Arena
- Feb. 12 — Almería, Spain; Feb. 14 — Palma de Mallorca; Feb. 16 — Madrid, Teatro Lope de Vega
- Feb. 23 — Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice; Feb. 25 — Padova, Gran Teatro Geox
- March 6 — Hamburg, Congress Center Hamburg; March 7 — Bielefeld, Stadthalle; March 12 — Lugano, Lugano Arte e Cultura; March 19 — Bern, Festhalle
- July 6 — Stuttgart, Liederhalle Beethovensaal; July 7 — Munich, Isarphilharmonie im Gasteig HP8
- Sept. 16 — Nuremberg, Meistersingerhalle
Chart Numbers Don’t Lie – But They Don’t Tell the Whole Story
Three consecutive UK chart entries confirm sustained commercial momentum, even as the trajectory dips.
| Album | UK Chart Position |
|---|---|
| The Zealot Gene | No. 9 |
| RökFlöte | No. 17 |
| Curious Ruminant | No. 25 |
That slide is worth acknowledging honestly. The live show, though, clearly carries its own weight — the touring appetite has not softened alongside the chart numbers. Fans eager to explore deeper cuts would do well to revisit the 70s Rock Albums that shaped Tull’s canonical reputation.
On new music, Anderson has said he’s developed early musical and lyrical ideas but hasn’t committed to the focused time a proper recording demands. That’s a deliberate creative posture, not inactivity — and it tracks for a musician with a September 2027 date already on the calendar.
The Lineup, the Legacy, and the Losses
Anderson’s role as the sole constant member gives this expanded touring cycle its continuity and its creative stakes.
Anderson remains the only musician to appear across every Jethro Tull configuration. The current band supports a catalog being actively revisited through expanded reissues of Under Wraps and Living in the Past:
- David Goodier — bass
- John O’Hara — keys
- Scott Hammond — drums
- Jack Clark — guitar
Former guitarist Martin Barre, a longtime Tull collaborator, is running his own separate “Brief History of Tull” tour alongside his autobiography. Former members Mick Abrahams and Dee Palmer both died during this touring cycle — a quiet weight behind these performances explored in broader context among the Weirdest Deaths of the rock era — that doesn’t need amplifying.
Verify tickets, times, and availability at jethrotull.com and through individual venues, as touring schedules shift without notice. For a band scheduling concert hall dates well into late 2027, that’s not nostalgia — that’s a working musician with nowhere near finished business.
