Editing Jethro Tull (band) (section)

===Anderson and Barre split & disbanding (2011–2017)===
Martin Barre stated in November 2011 that there were no current plans for further Jethro Tull work; in 2012, he put his own band together and toured as Martin Barre's New Day. The new band included former Tull bassist Jonathan Noyce and played mostly Tull material.<ref name="crr">{{cite web | url=http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/interviewmartinbarre2011.htm | title=Forty years of Aqualung: An interview with Jethro Tull's Martin Barre | access-date=25 November 2011 | author=Wright, Jeb | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123173724/http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/interviewmartinbarre2011.htm | archive-date=23 November 2011 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|date=22 November 2011|journal=Classic Rock Revisited|title=Interview with Martin Barre}}</ref> In 2015, Barre said: "It's important that people realize there will never be a Jethro Tull again. There will be two solo bands, the Ian Anderson Band and the Martin Barre Band, and long may they exist, and long may they enjoy playing music." Barre said he hated to hear "Oh, you've left Jethro Tull". He said, "Ian wanted to finish Jethro Tull. [He] wanted to stop the band completely."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/martin-barre-interview-2015/| title= Martin Barre Talks About Jethro Tull Memories, New Music and More: Exclusive Interview|publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock|date=19 October 2015}}</ref>

On 30 January 2012, Anderson announced on the Jethro Tull website that ''[[Thick as a Brick 2|Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?]]'', recorded by Anderson and the "Ian Anderson Touring Band" as a follow-up to 1972's ''[[Thick as a Brick]]'',  would be released on 2 April 2012. The band's line-up on the album and on the ensuing tour included two former Jethro Tull members, bassist David Goodier and keyboard player John O'Hara, plus guitarist [[Florian Opahle]], drummer [[Scott Hammond (musician)|Scott Hammond]] and additional vocalist [[Ryan O'Donnell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jethrotull.com/musicians/ | title=Ian Anderson Touring Band Members (2012–present)|website=Jethrotull.com |access-date=14 May 2016}}</ref> ''Thick as a Brick 2'' had its world premiere on 14 April 2012 at Perth Concert Hall in Scotland,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/12.htm |title=Set lists of Jethro Tull live concerts in 2012, at the Ministry of Information |website=Ministry-of-information.co.uk |date=5 May 2012 |access-date=5 May 2012}}</ref> at the start of an 18-month tour to promote the new album and the original album.

In November 2013, Anderson announced that another new album, ''[[Homo Erraticus]]'', ("The Wandering Man") would be released in April 2014. Tours of the UK and US followed the release, and the album was performed in its entirety. ''Homo Erraticus'' was a prog-rock concept album which, according to Anderson, "chronicles the weird imaginings of one Ernest T. Parritt, as recaptured by the now middle-aged Gerald Bostock after a trip to Mathew Bunter's Old Library Bookshop in Linwell village. Bostock and Bunter came across this dusty, unpublished manuscript, written by local amateur historian Ernest T. Parritt, (1873–1928), and entitled Homo Britanicus Erraticus." Like ''Thick as a Brick 2'', ''Homo Erraticus'' was described as an Ian Anderson solo album.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jethrotull.com/homo-erraticus-the-new-studio-album-from-ian-anderson/ | title=Homo Eratticus&nbsp;– The New Studio Album From Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson |website=Jethrotull.com| date=23 November 2013 |access-date=8 December 2013}}</ref>

In April 2014, after the release of ''Homo Erraticus'', Anderson stated that in future he would release all his music under his own name. He said Jethro Tull had "more or less come to an end" during the past 10 years, and that in his twilight years he would prefer to use his own name, "for the most part being composer of virtually all Tull songs and music since 1968".<ref name="billboard end"/> Anderson also said in the album's liner notes that he would continue to perform under his own name.

In 2015 Anderson toured the project ''Jethro Tull&nbsp;– The Rock Opera'' with the "Ian Anderson Touring Band", performing lyrically modified Tull material and new rock songs about Jethro Tull the agriculturist, with elaborate video productions on stage. The touring band included for the first time a female vocalist, Icelander Unnur Birna Björnsdóttir, who also played the violin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jethrotull.com/musicians/ | title=Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera Musicians (2015–present)|website=Jethrotull.com |access-date=14 May 2016}}</ref> The 2016 Tour visited Europe, Australia, and the US.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jethrotull.com/tour-dates/ | title=tour dates (2015–present) |website=Jethrotull.com|access-date=14 May 2016}}</ref> In 2017, Anderson toured under the name "Jethro Tull by Ian Anderson".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/lehigh-valley-music/mc-ent-musikfest-ian-anderson-jethro-tull-20170810-story.html | title=Q&A with Ian Anderson, who's carrying on Jethro Tull legacy at Musikfest|website=Mcall.com| date=11 August 2017}}</ref>