A NEW DAY YESTERDAY - THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

As a Tull fan starved of anything Tull on DVD, this was a must get DVD. There's bugger all about Tull in Australia so a DVD like this is a veritable gold mine of treasures and gems from the Tull years. There are interviews with most of the Tullites though John Glascock is mystically absent, as is Dee, but the majority of members are here to give their pennies worth. There are extracts galore from the old live shows and promo clips that one might find hard to get hold of; or impossible to find stuff, but unfortunately they are mostly incomplete excerpts which is a real disappointment when you are as into Tull as I am.

Thankfully, there are some complete clips, namely Teacher, The Witch's Promise, The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles, Aqualung, Kissing Willie, Rocks on the Road and Living in the Past. They are all great except for The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles which I can hear on the album okay but it is a drag watching them prance about in pantomime gear with kangaroos and rabbits, sillier than Monty Python, and that is saying something. A Passion Play enhanced CD features the same clip so its not exactly rare anymore.

The excerpts include unearthed treasures such as Nothing Is Easy (Isle of Wight 1970), Minstrel in the Gallery (Paris 1975), Thick As A Brick (Madison Square Gardens, NY 1978) and Songs from the Wood (LA 1980). Overall the set is a very good insight into the band and how they perform but could have been so much better with full versions of all the clips as they are very difficult to find.