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Marillion

Articles

Overview

Current members

Former members

Discography

Studio albums

Script for a Jester's Tear 56

Fugazi 59 Misplaced Childhood 61 Clutching at Straws 66 Seasons End 70 Holidays in Eden 74 Brave 78 Afraid of Sunlight 82

This Strange Engine 85

Radiation 88

Marillion.com 90

Anoraknophobia 93

Marbles 95

Somewhere Else 98

Compilations

Brief Encounter 107

B'Sides Themselves 109

A Singles Collection 112

The Best of Both Worlds 114

The Best of Marillion 116

The Singles '82–88' 118

Live albums

Real to Reel 120

The Thieving Magpie 123

Made Again 125

Anorak in the UK 128

Early Stages 130

Live from Loreley 134

Recital of the Script 137

Singles

"Market Square Heroes" 140

"He Knows You Know" 144

"Garden Party" 146

"Punch and Judy" 149

"Kayleigh" 151

"Lavender" 154

"Incommunicado" 156

References

Article Sources and Contributors 158

Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 161

Article Licenses

Overview

Marillion

Marillion

Marillion, 2009. L-R: Ian Mosley, Pete Trewavas, Steve Hogarth, Mark Kelly, and Steve Rothery. Background information

Origin Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England

Genres Progressive rock, neo-progressive rock, alternative rock, art rock, acoustic rock Years active 1979–present

Labels EMI, Capitol, Castle, Racket Records (Intact), IRS, Caroline, Sanctuary, Velvel/Koch, Edel, Liberty, Pony Canyon Associated acts Iris

Website _{www.marillion.com [1]}

Members Steve Rothery Mark Kelly Pete Trewavas Ian Mosley Steve 'h' Hogarth Past members Mick Pointer

Brian Jelliman Doug Irvine Fish Diz Minnett Andy Ward John 'Martyr' Marter Jonathan Mover

Marillion (/mʌˈrɪlˌjən/) are an English rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, in 1979. Their

recorded studio output since 1982 is composed of seventeen albums generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original frontman Fish in late 1988, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve Hogarth in early 1989. All four albums released with Fish were commercial successes, and during this period the band scored eleven Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including 1985's "Kayleigh", which reached No. 2 and

became their biggest hit single.

The first album released with Hogarth, 1989's Seasons End, was a hit, and albums continued to chart well until the dissipation of the band's mainstream popularity in the late 1990s; save for a resurgence in the mid- to late-2000s,[2] they have essentially been a cult act since then.[3] Marillion have achieved a further twelve Top 40 hit singles in the UK with Hogarth, including 2004's "You're Gone", which charted at No. 7 and is the biggest hit of his tenure. The band continue to tour internationally, and were ranked 38th in Classic Rock's "50 Best Live Acts of All Time" in 2008.[4]

Line-up and sound changes

The core line-up[5] of Steve Rothery (lead guitar, and the sole 'pre-Fish' original member), Pete Trewavas (bass), Mark Kelly (keyboards) and Ian Mosley (drums) has been unchanged since 1984. The band has enjoyed commercial success with 23 UK Top 40 hits spanning their career and 14 million albums sold by 2000.[6]

Marillion's music has changed stylistically throughout their career. The band themselves stated that each new album tends to represent a reaction to the preceding one, and for this reason their output is difficult to 'pigeonhole'. Their original sound (with Fish on vocals) is best described as guitar and keyboard led progressive rock or "neo-prog", and would be sometimes compared with Gabriel-era Genesis.[7][]

More recently, their sound has been compared, on successive albums, to that of Radiohead, Massive Attack, Keane, Crowded House, The Blue Nile and Talk Talk, although not consistently comparable sonically with any of these acts. The band themselves in 2007, tongue-in-cheek, described their own output merely as: "Songs about Death and Water since 1979..."

Marillion are widely considered within the industry[] to have been one of the first mainstream acts to have fully recognised and tapped the potential for commercial musicians to interact with their fans via the Internet circa 1996, and are nowadays often characterised as a rock & roll 'Web Cottage Industry'.[8] The history of the band's use of the internet is described by Michael Lewis in the book Next: The Future Just Happened as an example of how the internet is shifting power away from established elites, such as record producers.

The band are also renowned for having an extremely dedicated following[] (often self-termed 'Freaks') with some fans regularly travelling significant distances to attend single gigs, driven in large part by the close fan base involvement which the band cultivate via their website, podcasts, biennial conventions[9] and regular fanclub[10] publications.

History

The Fish era

Formation and early years (1979–1982)

Marillion was formed in 1979 as Silmarillion, after J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Silmarillion, by Mick Pointer, Steve Rothery, and others. They played their first gig at Berkhamsted Civic Centre, Hertfordshire, on 1 March 1980.[11] The band name was shortened to Marillion in 1981 to avoid potential copyright conflicts[12] at the same time as Fish and bassist Diz Minnett replaced original bassist/vocalist Doug 'Rastus' Irvine an audition at Leyland Farm Studios in Buckinghamshire on 2 January 1981. Rothery, drummer Mick Pointer, and keyboardist Brian Jelliman completed this line-up; the first gig with this line-up was at the Red Lion Pub in Bicester, Oxfordshire, on 14 March 1981. By the end of 1981, Kelly had replaced Jelliman, with Trewavas replacing Minnett in 1982. Minnett later formed Pride of Passion.[13]

The early works of Marillion contained Fish's poetic and introspective lyrics melded with a complex and subtle musical tapestry to create a sound that reflected the band's influences, notably Queen, early Genesis, Pink Floyd, Van

der Graaf Generator, Rush (specifically from the late 1970s), and Yes. Marillion's first recording was a demo tape produced by Les Payne in July 1981 that included early versions of "He Knows You Know", "Garden Party", and "Charting the Single".

The group attracted attention with a three-track session for the Friday Rock Show (early versions of "The Web", "Three Boats Down from The Candy", and "Forgotten Sons") and were subsequently signed by EMI. They released their first single, "Market Square Heroes", in 1982, with the epic song "Grendel" on the B-side of the 12" version. Following the single, the band released their first full-length album in 1983.

Script for a Jester's Tear and Fugazi (1983–1984)

The music on their debut album, Script for a Jester's Tear, was born out of the intensive gigging of the previous years. Although it had some progressive rock stylings, it also had a darker edge, suggested by the bedsit squalour on the album's cover. During the tour to promote Script for a Jester's Tear, Mick Pointer was dismissed from the band. The second album, Fugazi, built upon the success of the first album with a more electronic sound and produced the single 'Assassing', although the band encountered numerous production problems.[]

In November 1984, Marillion then released their first live album, Real to Reel, featuring songs from Fugazi and

Script for a Jester's Tear, as well as "Cinderella Search" (B-side to 'Assassing') and the debut single "Market Square

Heroes", which had not been available on album until that point. The album entered the UK album charts at No. 8.

Misplaced Childhood and international success (1985)

Marillion with Fish (1986) Their third and commercially most successful studio album was

Misplaced Childhood. With the blessing of their record company, the

band was free to depart stylistically from their previous albums, in the process developing a more mainstream sound. The lead single from the album, "Kayleigh", received major promotion by EMI and gained heavy rotation on BBC Radio 1 and Independent Local Radio stations as well as television appearances, bringing the band to the attention of a much wider audience. The band were able to showcase their ability on the album to juxtapose pert pop ballads ("Kayleigh", charting at No. 2 in the United Kingdom, behind charity fundraiser "You'll Never

Walk Alone" by The Crowd, and "Lavender", which charted at No. 5) with longer song cycles of lost youth, first love, drug abuse, drink, prostitution and, ultimately, rebirth and redemption, all inspired by Fish's life experiences. Following the exposure given to "Kayleigh" and its subsequent chart success, the album went to No. 1 in the United Kingdom, knocking Bryan Ferry off the top spot and holding off a challenge from Sting, who released his first solo album in the same week. The album came sixth in Kerrang! magazine's "Albums Of The Year" in 1985. Kayleigh also gave Marillion its sole entry on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 74. In the summer of 1986, the band played to their biggest ever audience as special guests to Queen at a festival in Germany attended by a crowd of over 150,000 people.

Clutching at Straws and the departure of Fish (1986–1988)

The fourth studio album, Clutching at Straws, shed some of its predecessor's pop stylings and retreated into a darker exploration of excess, alcoholism, and life on the road, representing the strains of constant touring that would result in the departure of Fish to pursue a solo career. It did continue the group's commercial success, however; lead single "Incommunicado" charted at No. 6 in the UK charts gaining the band an appearance on 'Top of the Pops'. Fish has also stated in interviews since that he believes this was the best album he made with the band.[14] The album came sixth in Kerrang! magazine's "Albums Of The Year" in 1987. The loss of the larger-than-life Fish left a hole that would be difficult to fill. Fish explained his reasons for leaving in an interview in 2003:

"By 1987 we were over-playing live because the manager was on 20 per cent of the gross. He was making a fantastic amount of money while we were working our asses off. Then I found a bit of paper proposing an American tour. At the end of the day the band would have needed a £14,000 loan from EMI as tour support to do it. That was when I knew that, if I stayed with the band, I'd probably end up a raging alcoholic and be found overdosed and dying in a big house in Oxford with Irish wolfhounds at the bottom of my bed."[15]

Giving the band a choice to continue with either him or the manager, the band sided with the manager and Fish left for a solo career. His last live performance with the band was at Craigtoun Country Park on 23 July 1988.[16] After lengthy legal battles, informal contact between Fish and the other four band members apparently did not resume until 1999; Fish would later disclose in the liner notes to the 2-CD reiussue of Clutching at Straws that he and his former bandmates had met up and discussed the demise of the band and renewed their friendship, and had come to the consensus that an excessive touring schedule and too much pressure from the band's management led to the rift. Although reportedly now on good personal terms, both camps had always made it very clear that the oft-speculated-upon reunion would never happen. However, when Fish headlined the 'Hobble on the Cobbles' free concert in Aylesbury's Market Square on 26 August 2007, the attraction of playing their debut single in its spiritual home proved strong enough to overcome any lingering bad feeling between the former band members, and Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, and Trewavas replaced Fish's backing band for an emotional encore of 'Market Square Heroes'. In a press interview following the event, Fish denied this would lead to a full reunion, saying that: "Hogarth does a great job with the band. We forged different paths over the 19 years."[17]

The Steve Hogarth era

Seasons End and Holidays in Eden (1989–1991)

After the split, the band found Steve Hogarth, the former keyboardist and sometime vocalist of The Europeans. Hogarth stepped into a difficult situation, as the band had already recorded some demos of the next studio album, which eventually would have become Seasons End. Hogarth was a significant contrast with Fish, coming from a New Wave musical background instead of progressive rock. He also had never owned a Marillion album before joining the band.[18]

After Fish left the group (taking his lyrics with him), Hogarth set to work crafting new lyrics to existing songs with lyricist and author John Helmer. The demo sessions of the songs from Seasons End with Fish vocals and lyrics can be found on the bonus disc of the remastered version of Clutching at Straws, while the lyrics found their way into various Fish solo albums such as his first solo album, Vigil In a Wilderness of Mirrors, some snippets on his second,

Internal Exile and even a line or two found its way to his third album, Suits.

Hogarth's second album with the band, Holidays In Eden, was the first he wrote in partnership with the band, and includes the song "Dry Land" which Hogarth had written and recorded in a previous project with the band How We Live. As quoted from Steve Hogarth, "Holidays in Eden was to become Marillion's “pop”est album ever, and was greeted with delight by many, and dismay by some of the hardcore fans".[19] Despite its pop stylings, the album failed to crossover beyond the band's existing fanbase and produced no major hit singles.

Brave, Afraid of Sunlight and split with EMI (1992–1995)

Holidays in Eden was followed by Brave, a dark and richly complex concept album that took the band 18 months to

release. The album also marked the start of the band's longtime relationship with producer Dave Meegan. While critically acclaimed, the album received little promotion from EMI and did poorly commercially. An independent film based on the album, which featured the band, was also released.

The next album, Afraid of Sunlight, would be the band's last album with record label EMI. Once again, it received little promotion and no mainstream radio airplay, and its sales were disappointing for the band. Despite this, it was one of their most critically acclaimed albums and was included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995.[20] One track of note on the album is Out Of This World, a song about Donald Campbell, who died while trying to set a speed record on water. The song inspired an effort to recover both Campbell's body and the "Bluebird K7," the boat which Campbell crashed in, from the water.[21] The recovery was finally undertaken in 2001, and both Steve Hogarth and Steve Rothery were invited.[22] In 1998, Steve Hogarth claimed this was the best album he had made with the band.[23]

This Strange Engine, Radiation and marillion.com (1996–1999)

What followed was a string of albums and events that saw Marillion struggling to find their place in the music business. This Strange Engine was released in 1997 with little promotion from their new label Castle Records, and the band could not afford to make tour stops in the United States. Luckily, their dedicated US fan base decided to solve the problem by raising some $60,000 themselves online to give to the band to come to the US.[24] The band's loyal fanbase (combined with the Internet) would eventually become vital to the band's existence.

The band's tenth album Radiation saw the band taking a different approach and was received by fans with mixed reactions.[]

marillion.com was released the following year and showed some progression in the new direction. The band were

still unhappy with their record label situation. As Steve Hogarth explained:

"We'd come to the end of our record deal and there were various indie labels interested in us. But we didn't feel comfortable with any of them. We're a band with a big fanbase, but the problem is that, as a result, no-one has an incentive to market us. Record labels know they could spend a fiver on promoting our album and our fans would still go and buy it if they had to find it under a stone. And we knew what would happen if we signed to an indie label. They'd do nothing, sell the album to the fanbase and put the money in the bank."[25]

Anoraknophobia and Marbles (2000–2006)

The band decided that they would try a radical experiment by asking their fans if they would help fund the recording of the next album by pre-ordering it before recording even started. The result was over 12,000 pre-orders which raised enough money to record and release Anoraknophobia in 2001.[26] The band was able to strike a deal with EMI to also help distribute the album. This allowed Marillion to retain all the rights to their music while enjoying commercial distribution. By this time the band had also parted company with their long-time manager, saving 20 per cent of the band's income.

The success of Anoraknophobia allowed the band to start recording their next album, but they decided to leverage their fanbase once again to help raise money towards marketing and promotion of a new album. The band put up the album for pre-order in mid-production. This time fans responded by pre-ordering 18,000 copies.[27]

Marbles was released in 2004 with a 2-CD version that is only available at Marillion's website – kind of a

'thank-you' gesture to the over 18,000 fans who pre-ordered it, and as even a further thanks to the fans, their names were credited in the sleeve notes (this 'thank you' to the fans also occurred with the previous album, Anoraknophobia).

Marillion in 2007, left to right: Steve Rothery, Steve Hogarth, Pete Trewavas (front row), Mark Kelly, Ian Mosley (back row) The band’s management organised the biggest

promotional schedule since they had left EMI and Steve Hogarth secured interviews with prominent broadcasters on BBC Radio, including Matthew Wright, Bob Harris, Stuart Maconie, Simon Mayo and Mark Lawson. Marbles also became the band’s most critically acclaimed album since

Afraid of Sunlight, prompting many positive

reviews in the press.[28][29][30][31][32][33][34] The band released "You're Gone" as the lead single from the album. Aware that it was unlikely to gain much mainstream radio airplay, the band released the single in three separate formats and encouraged fans to buy a copy of each in order to get the single into the UK Top Ten. The single reached No. 7, making it the first Marillion song

to reach the UK Top Ten since "Incommunicado" in 1987 and the band's first Top 40 entry since "Beautiful" in 1995. The second single from the album, "Don't Hurt Yourself", reached No. 16. Following this, they released a download-only single, "The Damage (live)", recorded at the band's sell-out gig at the London Astoria. It was the highest new entry in the new UK download chart at number 2.[citation needed] All of this succeeded in putting the band back in the public consciousness, making the campaign a success. Marillion continued to tour throughout 2005 playing several summer festivals and embarking on acoustic tours of both Europe and the United States, followed up by the "Not Quite Christmas Tour" of Europe throughout the end of 2005.

A new DVD, Colours and Sound, was released in Feb 2006, documenting the creation, promotion, release, and subsequent European tour in support of the album Marbles.

Somewhere Else and Happiness is the Road (2007–2008)

April 2007 saw Marillion release their fourteenth studio album Somewhere Else, their first album in 10 years to make the UK Top No. 30. The success of the album was further underscored by that of the download-only single See it

Like a Baby, making UK No. 45 (March 2007) and the traditional CD release of Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys, which made UK No. 15 and No. 6 in Holland during June 2007.

In July 2008 the band posted a contest for fans to create a music video for the soon-to-be released single "Whatever is Wrong with You", and post it on YouTube. The winner would win £5,000.[35][36]

Happiness Is the Road, released in October 2008, again featured a pre-order "deluxe edition" with a list of the fans

who bought in advance, and a more straightforward regular release. It is another double album, with one disc based on a concept and the second containing the other songs that aren't a part of the theme. Before the album's release, on 9 September 2008, Marillion achieved a world first[citation needed] by pre-releasing their own album via p2p networks themselves. Upon attempting to play the downloaded files, users were shown a video from the band explaining why they had taken this route. Downloaders were then able to opt to purchase the album at a user-defined price or select to receive DRM-free files for free, in exchange for an email address. The band explained that although they do not support piracy, they realised their music would inevitably be distributed online anyway, and wanted to attempt to engage with p2p users and make the best of the situation.[37]

Less is More and Sounds That Can't Be Made

The band's sixteenth studio album (released 2 October 2009) was an acoustic album featuring new arrangements of previously released tracks (except one, the new track: 'It's Not Your Fault') entitled Less Is More.

Their seventeenth studio album is titled Sounds That Can't Be Made and was released in September 2012. Two versions of the album were released: A 2-disc 'deluxe' version that included a DVD with 'making-of' features and sound-check recordings and a single CD jewel case version. The 'deluxe' version also included a 128-page book that incorporated lyrics, artwork and, as was the case with Anoraknophobia, Marbles and Happiness is the Road, the names of people who pre-ordered the album. Parts of the album were recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in 2011.

Marillion in the media

By their own admission, the band have never been fashionable in the eyes of the media. On the subject of joining the band, Steve Hogarth once said: "At about the same time, Matt Johnson of The The asked me to play piano on his tour. I always say I had to make a choice between the most hip band in the world, and the least." In the same interview, he claimed: "We're just tired of the opinions of people who haven't heard anything we've done in ten years. A lot of what's spread about this band is laughable."[18]

Much of the band’s enduring and unfashionable reputation stems from their emergence in the early 1980s as the most commercially successful band of the neo-progressive rock movement, an unexpected revival of the progressive rock musical style that had fallen out of critical favour in the mid-1970s. Some early critics were quick to dismiss the band as clones of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis due to musical similarities, such as their extended songs, a prominent and Mellotron-influenced keyboard sound, vivid and fantastical lyrics and the equally vivid and fantastical artwork by Mark Wilkinson used for the sleeves of their albums and singles. Lead singer Fish was also often compared with Gabriel due to his early vocal style and theatrical stage performances, which in the early years often included wearing face paint. In fact, Marillion's influences were more diverse than that. Fish was heavily influenced by Peter Hammill, two of guitarist Steve Rothery's biggest influences were David Gilmour and Andrew Latimer, keyboard player Mark Kelly's biggest inspiration was Rick Wakeman, Pete Trewavas especially loved Paul McCartney's bass lines and Mick Pointer was fond of Neil Peart's drumming.

As Jonh Wilde summarised in Melody Maker in 1989: "At the end of a strange year for pop music, Marillion appeared in November 1982 with "Market Square Heroes". There were many strange things about 1982, but Marillion were the strangest of them all. For six years, they stood out of time. Marillion were the unhippest group going. As punk was becoming a distant echo, they appeared with a sound and an attitude that gazed back longingly to the age of Seventies pomp. When compared to Yes, Genesis and ELP, they would take it as a compliment. The Eighties have seen some odd phenomena. But none quite as odd as Marillion. Along the way, as if by glorious fluke, they turned out some singles that everybody quietly liked – "Garden Party", "Punch and Judy" and "Incommunicado". By this time, Marillion did not need the support of the hip-conscious. They were massive. Perhaps the oddest thing about Marillion was that they became one of the biggest groups of the decade. They might have been an anomaly but they were monstrously effective."[38]

The band's unfashionable reputation and image problem has often been mentioned in the media, even in otherwise positive reviews. In Q in 1987, David Hepworth claimed: "Marillion may represent the inelegant, unglamorous, public bar end of the current Rock Renaissance but they are no less part of it for that. Clutching at Straws suggests that they may be finally coming in from the cold."[39] In the same magazine in 1995, Dave Henderson wrote: "It's not yet possible to be sacked for showing an affinity for Marillion, but has there ever been a band with a larger stigma attached?" He also claimed that if the album Afraid of Sunlight "had been made by a new, no baggage-of-the-past combo, it would be greeted with open arms, hailed as virtual genius."[40] In Record Collector in 2002, Tim Jones claimed they were "one of the most unfairly berated bands in Britain" and "one of its best live rock acts."[41] In 2004,

relevant. What are Radiohead if not a progressive band?" and claimed Marillion were "making strong, singular music with the courage of their convictions, and we should treasure them more than we do."[30] In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, an article on Marillion written by Mick Wall described them as “probably the most misunderstood band in the world”.[42] In 2007, Stephen Dalton of The Times stated: “The band have just released their 14th album, Somewhere Else, which is really rather good. Containing tracks that shimmer like Coldplay, ache like Radiohead and thunder like Muse, it is better than 80 per cent of this month’s releases. But you are unlikely to hear Marillion on British radio, read about them in the music press or see them play a major festival. This is largely because Marillion have – how can we put this kindly? – an image problem. Their music is still perceived as bloated, bombastic mullet-haired prog-rock, even by people who have never heard it. In fairness, they did once release an album called Script for a Jester's Tear. But, come on, we all had bad hair days in the 1980s."[]

Despite publishing a very good review for their 1995 album Afraid of Sunlight and including it in their 50 Best Albums of 1995, Q refused to interview the band or write a feature on them. Steve Hogarth later said: "How can they say, this is an amazing record... no, we don't want to talk to you? It's hard to take when they say, here's a very average record... we'll put you on the front cover."[18]

In 1999, DJ Simon Mayo commented on BBC Radio 1: "Marillion ... where are they now? And who cares anyway?" Fans objecting to the comment brought the station's computer system to a standstill with thousands of emails of complaint. Mayo subsequently apologised for his comment to keyboard player Mark Kelly when he phoned the show to take part in a quiz.[]

To accompany the release of Anoraknophobia in 2001, the band issued a press release asking critics to review the album in "a manner that is both accurate and fair. So, our challenge to you is to firstly listen to the album. Then write a review without using any of the following words: "Progressive rock", "Genesis", "Fish", "heavy metal", "dinosaurs", "predictable", "concept album". Because if you do, we'll know that you haven't listened to it."[]

Reviewing the band's appearance on BBC Two's The Future Just Happened in 2001, Gareth McLean of The

Guardian described the band as "once dodgy and now completely rubbish" and their fans as "slightly simple folks".

He also dismissed the band's efforts to continue their career without a label by dealing directly with their fans on the Internet, claiming: "One suspects that their decision occurred round about the time that the record industry decided to shun Marillion."[43]

In an interview in 2000, Hogarth expressed regret about the band retaining their name after he joined: "If we had known when I joined Marillion what we know now, we'd have changed the name and been a new band. It was a mistake to keep the name, because what it represented in the mid-Eighties is a millstone we now carry. If we'd changed it, I think we would have been better off. We would have been judged for our music. It's such a grave injustice that the media constantly calls us a 'dinosaur prog band'. They only say that out of ignorance because they haven't listened to anything we've done for the last 15 bloody years. If you hear anything we've done in the last five or six years, that description is totally irrelevant... It's a massive frustration that no-one will play our stuff. If we send our single to Radio 1 they say: 'Sorry, we don't play music by bands who are over so-many years old... and here's the new U2 single.' I suppose it's something everyone has to cope with – every band are remembered for their big hit single, irrespective of how much they change over the years. But you can only transcend that by continuing to have hits. It's Catch 22." However, Hogarth was still able to be optimistic: "You know, at some stage, someone has to notice that we're doing interesting things. Someday someone will take a retrospective look at us and be surprised."[44]

The band have been prepared to send up their unfashionable status, naming their 2001 album "Anoraknophobia" and printing T-shirts with the logo "Marillion: Uncool as F*ck."

Despite a return to the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart with 2004's "You're Gone", the media's perception of Marillion failed to soften.[45]

Several bandmembers are currently activeWikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Chronological items in UK music industry bodies – amongst them the FAC, whilst Mark Kelly was elected in November 2009 to both the Performer and Main Boards of the UK's PPL.[46]

Personnel

Members

Current members

• Steve Rothery – electric guitars, acoustic guitars (1979–present)

• Mark Kelly – keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming (1981–present)

• Pete Trewavas – bass guitars, backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects (1982–present)

• Ian Mosley – drums, percussion (1984–present)

• Steve 'h' Hogarth – lead vocals, lyrics, keyboards, guitars, percussion (1988–present)

Former members

• Mick Pointer – drums (1979–1983) • Brian Jelliman – keyboards (1979–1981) • Doug 'Rastus' Irvine – bass guitars, lead vocals

(1979–1981)

• Fish – lead vocals, lyrics, percussion (1981–1988) • Diz Minnett – bass guitars (1981–1982) • Andy Ward – drums, percussion (1983) • John 'Martyr' Marter – drums (1983) • Jonathan Mover – drums (1983-1984)

Lineups

1979-1981 1981 1981-1982 1982-1983

• Doug 'Rastus' Irvine – bass guitars, lead vocals • Brian Jelliman – keyboards • Mick Pointer – drums • Steve Rothery – electric

guitars, acoustic guitars

• Brian Jelliman – keyboards • Mick Pointer – drums • Steve Rothery – electric

guitars, acoustic guitars • Fish – lead vocals, lyrics,

percussion

• Diz Minnett – bass guitars

• Mick Pointer – drums • Steve Rothery – electric

guitars, acoustic guitars • Fish – lead vocals, lyrics,

percussion

• Diz Minnett – bass guitars • Mark Kelly – keyboards,

samples and effects, backing vocals, programming

• Mick Pointer – drums • Steve Rothery – electric

guitars, acoustic guitars • Fish – lead vocals, lyrics,

percussion

• Mark Kelly – keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming • Pete Trewavas – bass guitars,

backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects

1983 1983 1983-1984 1984-1988

• Steve Rothery – electric guitars, acoustic guitars • Fish – lead vocals, lyrics,

percussion

• Mark Kelly – keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming • Pete Trewavas – bass guitars,

backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects • Andy Ward – drums,

percussion

• Steve Rothery – electric guitars, acoustic guitars • Fish – lead vocals, lyrics,

percussion

• Mark Kelly – keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming • Pete Trewavas – bass guitars,

backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects • John 'Martyr' Marter –

drums

• Steve Rothery – electric guitars, acoustic guitars • Fish – lead vocals, lyrics,

percussion

• Mark Kelly – keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming • Pete Trewavas – bass guitars,

backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects • Jonathan Mover – drums

• Steve Rothery – electric guitars, acoustic guitars • Fish – lead vocals, lyrics,

percussion

• Mark Kelly – keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming • Pete Trewavas – bass guitars,

backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects • Ian Mosley – drums,

percussion 1988-present

• Steve Rothery – electric guitars, acoustic guitars • Mark Kelly – keyboards,

samples and effects, backing vocals, programming • Pete Trewavas – bass guitars,

backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects • Ian Mosley – drums,

percussion

• Steve 'h' Hogarth – lead vocals, lyrics, keyboards, guitars, percussion

Discography

Studio albums

• Script for a Jester's Tear (1983) • Fugazi (1984) • Misplaced Childhood (1985) • Clutching at Straws (1987) • Seasons End (1989) • Holidays in Eden (1991) • Brave (1994) • Afraid of Sunlight (1995) • This Strange Engine (1997) • Radiation (1998)

• marillion.com (1999) • Anoraknophobia (2001) • Marbles (2004)

• Somewhere Else (2007) • Happiness Is the Road (2008) • Less Is More (2009)

• Sounds That Can't Be Made (2012)

References

[1] http://www.marillion.com/ [2] [ Allmusic review of Marbles] [3] [ Allmusic review of Marbles Live]

[4] 50 Best Live Acts of All Time (April 2008) (http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/classicrock.htm). Classic Rock Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2010.

[13] "Record News", Sounds, 14 December 1985, p. 6 [15] Edinburgh Evening News, 29 May 2003.

[18] Dave Ling (May 2001) Interview with Steve Hogarth (http://www.daveling.co.uk/docmarillion.htm) Classic Rock Magazine [20] Q, February 1996.

[28] Betty Clarke The Guardian, 30 April 2004. [29] Tim Jones Record Collector, May 2004, Issue 297. [30] Jon Hotten Classic Rock, May 2004, Issue 66. [31] Roger Newell Guitarist, June 2004

[32] Simon Gausden Powerplay, June 2004 [33] Guitar, June 2004

[34] The Star, June 2004

[37] Marillion Press Release (2008-09-11) "Marillion Use P2P for Album Release (http://www.antimusic.com/news/08/sep/ 11Marillion_Use_P2P_for_Album_Release.shtml)" Anti Music

[38] Jonh Wilde Melody Maker, 28 October 1989

[39] David Hepworth (July 1987) Review of Clutching at Straws (http://www.the-company.com/disco/dacas.htm), Q Magazine (archived at Official Fish Site (http://the-company.com))

[40] Dave Henderson Q, August 1995. [41] Tim Jones Record Collector, May 2002.

[42] Mick Wall Q Classic: Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, 2005. [45] See You're Gone (Marillion song)#Background and release.

External links

• Marillion official site (http://www.marillion.com/)

• Marillion on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MarillionOfficial/)

Current members

Steve Rothery

Steve Rothery

Steve Rothery onstage with Marillion at their 2009 weekend festival in Montreal, Canada. Background information

Born 25 November 1959

Genres Rock, progressive rock, neo-progressive rock Occupations Musician, songwriter

Instruments Guitar

Associated acts Marillion, The Wishing Tree, Enchant, Edison's Children

Website _{Marillion.com [1]}

Steve Rothery (born 25 November 1959) is the guitarist of the English rock band Marillion. He was born in

Brampton, South Yorkshire, England. From the age of six he lived in Whitby, North Yorkshire. According to Guitar

Player, Rothery "specializes in crafting lush sonic atmospheres with layered guitars and effects processing."[2] In 2001, Rothery was voted Yorkshire and Humberside's best guitarist in a poll in Total Guitar magazine.[3]

Biography

Rothery began to play the guitar at the age of 15. In an interview for Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the Seventies on BBC Radio 2 in 2013, Rothery revealed that his musical tastes always differed from his friends, who were getting into punk rock while he preferred progressive rock, which he had been introduced to through the Alan Freeman show on BBC Radio 1. In 1979, he saw an ad in the music press for a band called Silmarillion that needed a guitarist. He auditioned successfully for the band (19 August 1979). From this point he concentrated more on melody, composition and mood, and less on his technique. Later, Silmarillion shortened its name to Marillion. Rothery is the only member of Marillion's founding lineup who remains in the band to this day. As well as work with Marillion, he started a solo project under the name The Wishing Tree (with Hannah Stobart providing vocals), and released 2 albums called Carnival of Souls and Ostara.

Style

Rothery is regarded by many fans of the band as providing their defining sound - with his signature clean toned, high-sustain Stratocaster soloing. His style of playing is heavily influenced by that of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Camel's Andrew Latimer. In a 2001 interview with Total Guitar Magazine, Rothery named Jeff Beck and Larry Carlton as his favourite guitarists. Like Gilmour, Rothery is very tonal and is considerate of every note, as opposed to extreme speed and other forms of technical wizardry. Despite this, he does occasionally incorporate faster runs into his solos for flavour, as can be heard in songs such as "The Web" and "King of Sunset Town". Other trademarks that recur throughout his career include clean picking arpeggios using digital delays and open voicings. Rothery has also stated that Joni Mitchell was another influence on his style, especially her use of open tunings, which Rothery believed created a very harmonically rich sound. He has cited Mitchell's "A Case of You" and Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" as two of the songs that had the biggest influence on him.[4]

The British Guitar Academy

In 2011, Rothery launched the British Guitar Academy "to bring together some of Britain's top guitarists to pass on their hard won knowledge and experience to a wider audience through a series of workshops and masterclasses. The aim is to concentrate not just on technique but also creativity and individuality." As well as Rothery, the Academy has featured guitarists such as Aziz Abrahams (Simply Red, The Stone Roses, Ian Brown, Asia and a solo artist), Dave Foster (Mr So & So and a solo artist), Michael Casswell (Brian May band, Cozy Powell band, Tony Hadley, Ronan Keating), Matt Prior (Bonnie Tyler and tv & film music composer), Rob Harris (Jamiroquai since 2000, Kylie Minogue, Beverly Knight) and Dan Steinhardt (Tin Spirits, developer of the Gig Rig pedal switching system and acknowledged tone guru).[5]

Equipment

• Laney VC50 & TT50 Heads •• Adrena-Linn effects processor •• Ernie Ball super slinky 9-42 strings •• Laney 4x12 cabinet • Analogman distortion pedal (modded

Boss DS-1)

•• Jack Dent Custom Guitars- Signature SR Model

•• Laney Lionheart L20 •• Xotic AC Booster •• Jack Dent Custom Guitars- Celeste Model ( Acoustic/Electric Hybrid)

•• Groove Tubes Dual 75 power amp

•• Xotic AC + • Jack Dent Custom Guitars- Telecaster-style guitar

•• Groove Tubes Trio valve pre-amp

• Eventide Timefactor • Jack Dent Custom Guitars- Stratocaster-style guitar

• Roland Jazz Chorus 120 Amp • Rockman sustainer/stereo chorus & delay • Blade RH4 Classic Strat-style guitar • TC Electronic 2290 effects

processor

•• Sound Sculpture switchblade 16 controller

• Blade Delta Tele-style guitar

•• Ground Control Pro MIDI foot controller

• Alesis Quadraverb effects processor •• Blade Texas Standard Strat-style guitar

•• Lexicon MPX G2 effects processor

•• Ebtech hum eliminator • Steinberger Custom made double neck 12/6

•• Roland GP16 effects processor • Sennheiser wireless system • Takamine 12 string acoustic • Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere •• Takamine Santa Fe 6 string acoustic • Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-wah pedal • Squier Stratocaster

• Ernie Ball volume pedal • Kahler Pro Tremolo System • Lindy Fralin Pickups

Discography

With Marillion

Steve Rothery appears on every Marillion release since their 1982 debut single; see Marillion discography

With The Wishing Tree

• Carnival of Souls (1996) • Ostara (2009)

Guest appearances

• Jadis - Jadis (1989, production) • Arrakeen - Patchwork (1990, guitar)

• Rock Against Repatriation - "Sailing" (1990, guitar)

• Enchant - A Blueprint of the World (1994, production, guitar) • John Wesley - Under the Red and White Sky (1994, guitar) • Arena - Crying for Help, The Cry (1994, guitar)

• Mr. So and So - The Overlap (1998, production, guitar) • John Wesley - The Emperor Falls (1999, guitar) • Ian Mosley & Ben Castle - Postmankind (2001, guitar) • The Reasoning - Awakening (2007, guitar)

• Gazpacho - Firebird (2005, guitar)

• Swallow the Sun - Servant of Sorrow (alternate version from the single New Moon) (2009, guitar) • Edison's Children - In The Last Waking Moments (2011, guitar)

References

[1] http://www.marillion.com/band/rothery.htm [3]

[3] Total Guitar. July 2001

[4] Interview with Steve Rothery. Sounds of the Seventies. BBC Radio 2. 24 March 2013

External links

• Steve Rothery's official MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/steverothery)

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly onstage with Marillion at their 2009 weekend festival in Montreal, Canada. Background information

Birth name Mark Colbert Kelly

Born 9 April 1961

Dublin, Ireland

Genres Art rock, neo-progressive rock, pop-rock

Occupations Musician

Instruments Keyboards, piano

Years active 1980–present

Labels Racket Records

Associated acts Marillion, Travis, Chemical Alice, Edison's Children, DeeExpus

Website _{www.marillion.com [1]}

Mark Kelly (born Mark Colbert Kelly, 9 April 1961, Dublin, Ireland) is the keyboardist of the neo-progressive

rock band Marillion. He was raised in Ireland until he moved to England with his parents in 1969.[2]

Kelly was an electronics student while performing part-time in the progressive/psychedelic band Chemical Alice, who released their EP Curiouser and Curiouser in 1981.[3] He was invited to join Marillion when Chemical Alice supported the band, replacing previous keyboardist Brian Jelliman.[4] His first performance with the band was at the Great Northern at Cambridge on 1 December 1981. Kelly has appeared on every Marillion studio album. He also appeared on John Wesley's album Under the Red and White Sky in 1994 and on Jump's album Myth of Independence in 1995 on production and keyboards.[5] He has also played keyboards with Travis for their headlining set at the Isle of Wight Festival (10–12 June 2005), at T in the park in 2005, and at the Live8 set in Edinburgh (6 July 2005). Mark Kelly also played Keyboards for Edison's Children's new album "In The Last Waking Moments..." (featuring fellow Marillion member Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood), for the song The "Other" Other Dimension as well as performing vocals with Steve Hogarth and Andy Ditchfield (DeeExpus) on the Edison's Children track The

Awakening in 2011. Also in 2011, Mark Kelly performed Keyboards on the epic, King of Number 33 for the prog

He is a director of the Featured Artists Coalition.[6]

References

[1] http://www.marillion.com/band/kelly.htm

[3] Btinternet.com (http://www.btinternet.com/~archimedes/alice2.html) [4] Marillion.com (http://www.marillion.com/band/other.htm) [5] Marillion.com (http://www.marillion.com/band/kelly.htm)

[6] Featuredartistscoalition.com (http://www.featuredartistscoalition.com)

External links

• Marillion - Other Faces (http://www.marillion.com/band/other.htm)

• Chemical Alice Website (http://www.btinternet.com/~archimedes/alice2.html) • Marillion - Band Member Profiles (http://www.marillion.com/band/kelly.htm) • Edison's Children (http://www.edisonschildren.com)

Pete Trewavas

Pete Trewavas

Pete Trewavas onstage with Marillion at 2009 Montreal weekend festival. Background information

Born 15 January 1959

Origin Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom Genres Art rock/progressive rock

Instruments Bass, Guitar, Backing Vocals, piano Years active 1982–present

Labels Racket Records / Random Disturbance Records Associated acts Kino

Marillion Transatlantic Big Big Train The Wishing Tree, Edison's Children

Website http://www.edisonschildren.com

Peter Trewavas (born 15 January 1959, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England)[] is an English musician. He

joined Marillion in 1982, taking over the role of bassist,[1] from Diz Minnett, while acting occasionally as a backing vocalist and acoustic guitarist.

Although he was born in Middlesbrough, Trewavas spent much of his childhood in the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury.[] It was in Aylesbury that he became involved in several bands, having most success with The Metros, before taking up his long term role in Marillion.

Although still a full member of Marillion, in recent years, Trewavas has also become a member of the progressive rock supergroup, Transatlantic. In 2004, Trewavas co-founded another group called Kino, with John Mitchell (Arena), John Beck (It Bites) and Chris Maitland (ex-Porcupine Tree).

In 2011, Pete Trewavas joined up with his longtime friend Eric Blackwood to form the duo Edison's Children. The new project was designed to be a creative outlet for Pete Trewavas (who has traditionally recorded in a "band" or "group" format on bass and acoustic guitar), in which he could also play lead guitar, lead vocals, drum programming and keyboards as well as have full creative control over the writing and producing of the record with. The 72 minute concept album "In The Last Waking Moments..." about a man fighting to understand if a recent bizarre happening was reality or a decent into madness, was released on 11.11.11. [2]

The Edison's Children project would result in the release of the single "A Million Miles Away (I Wish I Had A Time Machine)". The song debuted on American Commercial Radio in June of 2012 and by September it had reached the FMQB U.S. Commercial Radio Top 40 where it remained for 3 weeks (and stayed in the top 100 for 18 weeks) peaking at #38. [3]

On 17 September 2012 during a Marillion concert at The Junction in Cambridge, Steve Hogarth announced that Pete was now called "Sweet Pea Tremendous" as it was the result of putting Pete's name into an anagram solver. This new nickname was accepted by the crowd and stuck for the remainder of the night.

Trewavas has also appeared in Prog Aid, the charity project set up to raise money for victims of the 2004 tsunami. Trewavas was a guest musician on English progressive rock band Big Big Train's 2007 album, The Difference

Machine.

Though primarily a bassist, Trewavas has been known to write keyboard parts during his time with Transatlantic, and has played acoustic guitar on Marillion songs, particularly "Faith" and "Now She'll Never Know".

Trewavas on tour with Transatlantic (2010) Pete Trewavas uses:[]

•• Laney Amplification and Ibanez Bass Guitars • Laney B2 power amp & cabinets

•• Laney RWB300 Combo •• Ibanez RDB Bass •• Fender Precision Bass •• Fender Jazz Bass •• Squier Precision Bass •• Squier Jazz Bass

•• Rickenbacker 12-string + Bass Double-neck guitar •• Elites stadium series 45-105 strings

•• TC Electronic D-Two multi-tap rhythm delay processor

•• Various Boss effects pedals: Delay, EQ, Chorus, Distortion, Octaver •• Sennheiser wireless system

•• Roland PD5 Bass Pedals Controller

Trewavas is a fan of the Football team Manchester United F.C.

References

[2] http://www.edisonschildren.com/About_Edisons_Children.html [3] http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=16693

External links

• Pete Trewavas' homepage (http://www.marillion.com/band/trewavas.htm) at Marillion.com • Kino official homepage (http://www.kinomusic.com)

• http://www.edisonschildren.com

• http://www.edisonschildren.com/Pete_Trewavas.html Template:Edison's Children

Ian Mosley

Ian Mosley

Ian Mosley onstage with Marillion at their 2009 weekend festival in Montreal, Canada. Background information

Born 16 June 1953

Genres Neo-progressive rock

Instruments Drums

Associated acts Marillion, Darryl Way, Steve Hackett Website _{Ian Mosley's page at the Marillion website [1]}

Ian F. Mosley (born 16 June 1953, Paddington, London, England) is the drummer in the neo-progressive rock band

Marillion.

Mosley joined the band in 1984 after a long search for a replacement for Mick Pointer, who had left the band in 1983. He was the fifth drummer to play for Marillion and was frontman Fish's choice for the role, having been unhappy with the band's previous drummers. Mosley had previously, among others, played with former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, both on two of his solo studio albums and on tour. He also played on the 1975 album Birds by Dutch band Trace and on fellow Marillion bandmate Pete Trewavas' and Eric Blackwood's Edison's Children album "In The Last Waking Moments...", playing drums on the epic 16 minute "The Awakening". He is still a member of Marillion to this day.

Personal quotes

“

lyrics that quote dancing gnomes, Stonehenge and fairytales, etc. [2]

”

References

[1] http://forum.marillion.com/band/mosley.htm

External links

• Ian Mosley biography (http://web.archive.org/web/20091027103358/http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/ Palladium/2214/imosl_b.htm)

Steve Hogarth

Steve "h" Hogarth

Steve Hogarth onstage at Marillion's weekend festival in Montreal Canada, April 2009. Background information

Also known as H

Born 14 May 1959

Kendal, England, United Kingdom Genres New Wave, art rock, neo-progressive rock Instruments Vocals, piano, guitar, hammered dulcimer

Years active 1980–present

Labels Racket Records

Associated acts The Europeans How We Live Marillion The h-Band

Website _{stevehogarth.com [1]}

Steve Hogarth (born Ronald Stephen Hoggarth[2] on 14 May 1959[3][4] in Kendal, Westmorland) also known as

"h", is the lead vocalist and occasional keyboardist/guitarist with the British rock band Marillion. Hogarth was formerly a keyboard player and co-lead vocalist with The Europeans and vocalist with How We Live.

Early life

Hogarth was born in Kendal in Cumbria. His father was an engineer in the British Merchant Navy. He was brought up on a council estate in Doncaster from the age of two. As a child he became interested in music, his earliest influences being The Beatles and The Kinks. He taught himself to play piano. Leaving school at the age of eighteen, Hogarth spent three years studying for a degree in electrical engineering at Trent Polytechnic. He was also a member of a band during this time, Harlow, who played working men's clubs. They recorded the single Harry de Mazzio on the Pepper record label in 1978. The band split in 1981 and Hogarth left his engineering degree, moving to London to further his music career.[5]

Career

In London, Hogarth joined a band called Motion Pictures, having responded to an advertisement in the music press. They were subsequently renamed The Europeans. Initially joining just as a keyboard player, Hogarth also ended up sharing the vocal duties with Ferg Harper. Signed to A&M Records, The Europeans released two studio albums and one live album. On the first studio album, Hogarth sang just one track. By the second studio album, he sang five of the eight tracks.

In 1985, Hogarth and guitarist Colin Woore left the band to form How We Live, The duo were signed to Columbia Records. In 1987, following record company changes, How We Live's debut album Dry Land was poorly promoted, resulting in a flop. Hogarth imagined he would have to leave the music industry - for a time seriously considering becoming a milkman or postman (as he later related) - but a meeting with his publishers (and a certain amount of matchmaking by long time friend, Darryl Way, sometime of Curved Air) persuaded him to send a tape to Marillion, who were recruiting for a new lead vocalist following the departure of Fish in late 1988.

Marillion heard the tape and were interested enough to ask for a meeting with the singer. Later accounts of this first meeting record that Hogarth turned up at band member Pete Trewavas' house with his demo tapes contained in a red plastic fire bucket - the audition taking place in Trewavas' garage, due to the presence in the house of cats (see below). The band were immediately impressed by his vocal prowess. Hogarth himself, however, took a little longer to make up his mind, holding as he did at the time a potentially lucrative offer to tour the U.S. on keyboards with The The. As he later recalled, he had a choice 'between joining the most hip band in the world at that time, or the least...'. In the end he accepted the Marillion gig, won over by the fact that the band wanted an equal partner; who would input their own ideas.

Hogarth's first album with the band, released in September 1989, was Seasons End, their fifth studio album. Since then, Marillion have recorded another twelve albums with Hogarth on vocals, the most recent being entitled Sounds

That Can't Be Made released in September 2012.

Hogarth has also released one solo studio album under the name 'h' called Ice Cream Genius. This album had contributions from ex-Japan/ Porcupine Tree synthesiser/keyboard maestro Richard Barbieri, former XTC guitarist Dave Gregory, Blondie drummer Clem Burke, bassist Chucho Merchan and percussionist Luis Jardim.

Subsequently, Hogarth's side-project, The H-Band, has played live across the UK and Europe featuring a variety of musicians, including former The Stone Roses MKII guitarist Aziz Ibrahim, Massive Attack and The Bays drummer Andy Gangadeen, session musician Jingles on bass, Aziz's regular musical partner Dalbir Singh Rattan on tablas and Stephanie Sobey-Jones on cello. With Barbieri and Gregory, this line up recorded a double album entitled Live

Spirit: Live Body in 2001 (released in 2002). Writing for a forthcoming second solo studio album occurred in

December 2004.

Most recently, a solo tour entitled 'h Natural' saw Hogarth play around 20 dates in both the UK and Europe in Spring / Summer 2006, billed as an evening of music and conversation with Hogarth at the piano. Summer 2007 has seen a second clutch of these shows scheduled. These shows are being mixed and released for download, one at a time and for a limited period only, on Hogarth's new H-Tunes site [6].

On the 14th of May 2010 Hogarth performed at the Relentless Garage in London to celebrate his birthday. He also performed at Liverpool on the 15th and Sheffield on the 16th. To coincide with these shows a CD was released featuring some of the best tracks taken from his H Natural shows. This collection is called H Natural Selection and was available at the shows and from the Marillion website.

In 2012 Hogarth joined forces with Richard Barbieri again, releasing an album as a duo called Not the weapon but

Personal life

Hogarth has three children; a daughter called Sofi and a son called Nial with his first wife Sue,[7] and a son called Emil in his current relationship with Linette.

Hogarth is violently allergic to cats - first learning this when hospitalised as a child after visiting a Liverpudlian Auntie "...whose house was full of 'em!"

Solo discography

• 1998: Ice Cream Genius (Re-release) • 2002: Live Spirit: Live Body

• 2010: H Natural Selection

• 2012: Not the weapon but the hand (with Richard Barbieri)

Guest appearances

• 1983: Once Bitten – Annabel Lamb (keyboards) • 1985: Domestic Harmony – Do-Ré-Mi (keyboards) • 1986: Infected – The The: (piano on "Heartland") • 1987: Blue Yonder – Blue Yonder (backing vocals) • 1987: Saint Julian – Julian Cope (backing vocals) • 1988: Union – Toni Childs (keyboards)

• 1990: "Sailing" – Rock Against Repatriation (vocals) • 1998: Ocean Songs – Chucho Merchan (vocals)

• 1999: Five Years in a LIVETime (video) - Dream Theater (keyboards, vocals) • 1999: The Emperor Falls – John Wesley (backing vocals)

• 2007: Systematic Chaos – Dream Theater (spoken voice) • 2011: "Till Then We Wait" - Sun Domingo [8] (vocals) • 2011: The Awakening - Edison's Children (vocals)

•• 2012: 'Paintings in Minor Lila' Egbert Derix (narration on 'This Train is My Life')

Personal quotes

“

”

References

[1] http://www.stevehogarth.com/

[2] Steve Hogarth, writer search at ASCAP ACE (http://www.ascap.org/ace/search.cfm?mode=results&searchstr=1500555&search_in=c& search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=20&start=1)

[4] marillion.com | BAND - Members - Steve Hogarth | The Official Marillion Website (http://www.marillion.com/band/hogarth.htm) [5] Mick Wall Pre-Season Friendlies Kerrang! 23 September 1989

[6] http://www.h-tunes.com/ [8] http://www.sundomingo.com

External links

• Official website (http://stevehogarth.com)

• Steve's Homepage on Marillion Site (http://www.marillion.com/band/hogarth.htm) • H-Tunes site (http://www.h-tunes.com/)

• Official page for Not the weapon but the hand (http://www.nottheweaponbutthehand.com/)

• Interview with Steve Hogarth about Happiness is the Road album and much more (http://www.metalsymphony. com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3599)

Former members

Fish

Fish

Fish live onstage at BB Kings in New York City, June 2008. Background information

Birth name Derek William Dick Also known as Fish

Born 25 April 1958

Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland Genres Neo-progressive rock

Occupations Musician, singer-songwriter, actor Instruments Vocals, percussion

Years active 1981–present

Labels Chocolate Frog, EMI, Polydor, Roadrunner, Voiceprint, Dick Bros. Associated acts Marillion, Tony Banks, Ayreon

Fish in 2010.

Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, (born 25 April 1958,

Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

Biography

Fish was educated at Dalkeith High School. He was inspired by the music of many of the rock artists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator, The Kinks, T. Rex, David Bowie, Argent and The Alex Harvey Band. As well as his love for music, he was also a voracious reader, and his literary inspirations included Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Robert Burns and Dylan Thomas.

After working as a petrol pump attendant,[3] gardener and forestry

worker, Fish came to the public's attention in 1981 with the British rock group Marillion. The band achieved chart success in the UK, attaining top-ten hits in 1985 with "Kayleigh" and "Lavender", and again in 1987 with "Incommunicado". In 1988, Fish left Marillion in order to pursue his solo career. Many of Fish's later works contain lengthy spoken word lyrics, shorter examples of which can be heard on earlier Marillion albums. Vocally, Fish has sometimes been compared to Peter Gabriel, lead singer of Genesis in the 1970s. Music journalist David Hepworth described his voice as a “conflation of Roger Daltrey and Peter Gabriel”.[4] Peter Hammill of Van der Graaf Generator was also a major influence on his songwriting and vocal delivery, which is especially notable on the first two Marillion albums.

According to Fish himself, his nickname originates from the amount of time he spent in the bathtub.[] Fish has one daughter, Tara.

On 26 August 2007, Fish performed at the 'Hobble on The Cobbles' show at the Market Square[5] in Aylesbury, UK. He was accompanied on stage by his four former Marillion bandmates from the classic lineup (Mark Kelly, Steve Rothery, Ian Mosley and Pete Trewavas) for one song: 'Market Square Heroes'. This was the first time they had performed together in nearly two decades. In a press interview following the event, Fish denied this would lead to a full reunion, claiming that "Hogarth does a great job with the band... We forged different paths over the 19 years."[] His most recent studio album, 13th Star, was released on 12 September 2007 as a specially-packaged pre-release version available to order from his website. A UK tour for this album commenced in March 2008, supported by Glyder. In February 2008, Fish was confirmed to be the Friday night headline act at NEARFest X. He also appeared with BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris on GMTV to promote Childline Rocks, a charity concert.

In 2008, Fish presented a Friday evening radio show "Fish on Friday" for digital radio station Planet Rock. When the station was faced with closure, Malcolm Bluemel with the help of Fish, Tony Iommi, Ian Anderson and Gary Moore helped save Planet Rock by buying the station.[]

On 9 June 2008, Fish embarked on his first full North American tour in eleven years. At each stop, he hosted a pre-show meet-and-greet with his fans. Two days prior, he was interviewed by Vince Font of the progressive rock podcast Prog'opolis, which was aired a week later on The Dividing Line Broadcast Network (DLBN) as "My Lunch With Fish".[6]

In 2008, Fish revealed that he would be taking at least six months off from singing due to an "irregular cell growth" in his throat. This was later determined not to be cancerous.[citation needed]

In 2005, Fish won a Celebrity Music edition of The Weakest Link, beating Eggsy of Goldie Lookin Chain in the final round, sharing £18,750 with Eggsy's charity and his own.

On 20 and 21 October 2012, Fish hosted Fish Convention 2012 in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom. He performed two acoustic sets and two electric sets including material from his upcoming release, Feast of Consequences. He also performed fan favorite Marillion B-Side Grendel, twice.

Record labels

Following a legal dispute with EMI and an unsuccessful contract with Polydor, Fish established the Dick Bros Record Company in 1993. He released a number of "official bootleg" albums to finance the company before selling it to Roadrunner Records. Another financially unsuccessful period followed before he re-established his own Chocolate Frog Records record label in 2001. In 2005, Fish signed with Snapper Music but later returned to Chocolate Frog Records.

Awards

In May 2008, Fish's Planet Rock show won the Silver award in the Music Broadcaster of the Year category at the UK Sony Radio Academy Awards 2008.[] In June 2008, at the New York Festivals Radio Broadcasting Awards, he and Gary Moore jointly received the Gold World Medal in the Regularly Scheduled Music Program category for their respective shows on Planet Rock.[7]

Acting

Fish's first prominent role was as the thug "Ferguson" alongside John Sessions in Jute City, a four-part 1991 BBC drama based on a group of Masonic ruffians. In 1994, he appeared in Chasing the Deer, a film set during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, as "Angus Cameron".

In 1998 he appeared in one episode of the ITV TV series The Bill, credited as David Lawson. It was episode 44 of series 14, named 'Manhunt' and was aired on 16 April. He also appeared in a 2000 episode of the TV detective series

Rebus alongside John Hannah and, in 2003, appeared as the old gay man "Old Nick" in 9 Dead Gay Guys.

In the 2005 movie, The Jacket, Fish appeared alongside Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley as a patient in a mental institution.

He also played Derek Trout, a record producer in the 1999 series, The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock

Star.

Current live band

•• Derek William Dick (Fish) - lead vocals •• Robin Boult - lead/rhythm guitars

•• Chris Johnson - rhythm/lead guitars, backing vocals •• Gavin Dickie - bass guitars, backing vocals

•• Foss Patterson - keyboards, backing vocals •• Gavin Griffiths - drums

Discography

Studio albums

• 1990: Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors • 1991: Internal Exile

• 1993: Songs from the Mirror (covers album) • 1994: Suits

• 1997: Sunsets on Empire • 1999: Raingods with Zippos • 2001: Fellini Days

• 2004: Field of Crows • 2007: 13th Star

• 2013: Feast of Consequences (forthcoming album)

Live albums

Some of these live albums were first released as "official bootlegs" sold via mail-order and on tour. Several of these have later been released to retail.

• 1993: Pigpen's Birthday

• 1993: Derek Dick and his Amazing Electric Bear • 1993: Uncle Fish and the Crypt Creepers • 1993: For Whom the Bells Toll

• 1993: Toiling in the Reeperbahn • 1994: Sushi

• 1994: Acoustic Sessions

• 1996: Fish Head Curry (limited edition live album, 5000 copies only) • 1996: Krakow

• 1998: Tales from the Big Bus • 1998: Fortunes of War

• 1999: The Haddington Tapes (From the 1998 Haddington Convention) • 1999: The Complete BBC Sessions

• 2000: Issue 30 CD (From the 1999 Haddington Convention)

• 2000: Candlelight in Fog (limited edition live album, 3000 copies only) • 2001: Sashimi

• 2002: Fellini Nights • 2002: Mixed Company

• 2005: Scattering Crows Live In Europe 2004

• 2005: Scattering Crows Live At The Robin 2, Bilston Feb. 18th 2004 • 2006: Return to Childhood