Recording 'Sunshine Day'.

At a band meeting, it was decided to use the name 'Jethro Tull' on the single.

The first ever 'Jethro Tull' concert.
Precise venue unconfirmed

Booked and billed as 'Navy Blue', the band introduced themselves as 'Jethro Tull'. Supporting Black Cat Bones.

The first appearence billed as Jethro Tull; supporting Savoy Brown Blues Band.

b/w 'Aeroplane'.

Supporting The Spirit Of John Morgan.

Probable venue, but not confirmed.

Supporting Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation.

Supporting Fleetwood Mac.

Billed as appearing with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, but Tull didn't play.

Audience: 136. Tull were paid £20.

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

Supporting The Who. Glenn's 21st birthday.

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'.

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.

The oddly-named club was situated above a pub.
Date not known.
At this show and others, Tull used two VOX AC 30 amps as a PA system.

Headlining the Marquee's Blues Night for the first time. Support: The New Nadir.

Also appearing (joint headline?): The Taste (Rory Gallagher's band).

Preliminary recording session for 'This Was'.

Replacing Jeff Beck, who cancelled

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.

Support: The Spirit of John Morgan (see 16/2).

Proper start of recording sessions for 'This Was' (until 23 August).

Support: Duster Bennett.

Date totally unknown.

Supporting Pink Floyd.
Tickets cost 7s 6d (7 shillings and sixpence).

Two shows? Support: Tramline.

Britain's first large-scale free outdoor concert, including Pink Floyd, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Roy Harper & Jethro Tull

Support: Thackery.

Support: Dynaflow Blues Band.

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

Not on the July '68 Marquee programme, which advertised Ten Years After for this date; perhaps they cancelled and Tull appeared instead.

Support: Black Cat Bones (see 16/1).

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.

At some point between Kempton Park and November, Tull played here, supported by Gethsemane, Martin Barre's band.

End of recording sessions for 'This Was' (started 13 June).

Support: Duster Bennett.

Two shows. Not listed on the August '68 Marquee programme, so presumably added at the last minute, following their success at Kempton Park.

Tull's first headline appearence on the Marquee's 'Star Night' (previous appearences all 'Blues Night'). Support: East Of Eden.

Audience: 240. Tull were paid £30.

20:00 start.

The usual 'Blues Night' residency appearence. Support: The Love Sculpture.

Late show, after the Cooks Ferry Inn gig.

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'.

Support: John Morgan.

An afternoon benefit gig (apparently for Czechs stranded in the UK), with other blues bands.

'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.

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.

Support: Killing Floor.

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'.

Support: The Amazing Friendly Apple.
Tickets cost 7/6. Sold out (capacity: 1,200), with long queues turned away. Tull were paid £100.

Supported by Gethsemane. Martin Barre received an invitation to audition for Tull.

Support: Earth (which later became Black Sabbath). Their lead guitarist was Tony Iommi, who was asked to audition for Tull.
Returning from this gig, Mick was told he was leaving.

Tull headlined 'Star Night' for the second time; their last Marquee appearence. Support: Bakerloo Blues Line.

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

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.

Mick Abrahams' last concert with Tull.

Auditions for a new guitarist. Tony Iommi got the job.

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.

Tony went back to Birmingham, and Martin was given a second, more private audition famously without an amplifier. He was asked to join.

Cancelled.
Support would have been West Side Story. 20:00 start, 23:30 curfew.

Cancelled

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.

Martin Barre's first concert with Tull.
Also Clive's birthday.

Also playing: Savoy Brown, Bakerloo Blues Line
Scheduled and advertised in the national press, but almost certainly cancelled, due to Martin's arrival. Had Tull played, it would have meant a trip from Penzance on 30th, to Birmingham on New Year's Eve, then back to Penzance for 2 Jan. Unlikely.