Probably poor form to reply to my own post, but whatever...
Forked out my £40 and went along to the UK gig at UTB tonight; all things considered, I'm glad I did. Asking around, it didn't sound like the VIP ticket holders heard much of the soundcheck for their £60, although they did get a meet & greet session with Messrs Jobson & Wetton (only 10 mins in total with the latter, I was told).
It was the loudest gig I've been to in ages and the brightness of the stage lights was a bit much too, but there was some really good stuff among the lengthy prog rock solos and the healthy audience was in raptures.
EJ was on good form, chatting between numbers and saying how pleased he was that his perspex violin (made in '72 in his Curved Air days) is still going strong. He had family in the audience, including his 89 year old father (don't know how
he felt about the decibel levels!) who hadn't heard him play for 35 years.
EJ looks a little like a Bond villain, with his shoulder length grey hair, tinted Lennon specs & dressed in black & dark grey; JW's luxurious locks are now cut to collar length, their thickness now matched by his waistline!
The 30th anniversary remastered versions of all three CDs were on sale at a very reasonable tenner apiece (Amazon copies are going for two or three times that sum) and I managed to get one of them signed by JW later as the gear was being dismantled.
No sign of EJ after the gig, but I guess he'd have had family stuff to deal with. Had met him a couple of years or so ago at a Curved Air gig in Kent, though, and found him to be a very approachable guy.
This was their only gig in this country, but they seemed to be enjoying it, so maybe one day it'll happen again (maybe the 40th anniversary; this was the 35th...).