Marillion – Radiation and Marillion.com “Here I am globally altered and disheveled” – Radiation“Wide awake on the edge of the world” – Marillion.com Now we arrive at record number 10 and 11 for the band. I’m going to look at them together as for me they are almost like a double album separated by a …
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Marillion – This Strange Engine “Carrying a message, a message of hope” Marillion are often discussed as the originators of the concept of crowdfunding which is sort of true. It was actually two fans of theirs named Jeff Pelletier and Jeff Woods that should be credited for it (possible a few others as well). The …
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Marillion – This Strange Engine “And the sun on the equator, Setting like an ember thrown to deep water, From crimson to black, But coming back, Tomorrow” 1993 was a rare year for Marillion in that they didn’t play a single live gig as a band. Pete and h did perform at a fanclub convention …
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Marillion – Afraid Of Sunlight “I hope for your sake, you’ve got what it takes, to be spoilt to death” 1993 was a rare year for Marillion in that they didn’t play a single live gig as a band. Pete and h did perform at a fanclub convention in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 19 1993 …
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Marillion – Brave “It all began with the bright light, The bright light and the noise The chaos of the senses and the scream of desire” The Holidays In Eden tour took place between July 10 1991 and April 16 1992 beginning in England and ending in San Francisco California. The Toronto show was at …
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Marillion – Holidays In Eden “They say that some are born to burn, And some are born to give. They say that people live and learn, Some people only live and live.” The Seasons End tour that followed the release of the band’s first post Fish album was a massive one. It took in over …
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Marillion – Seasons End / Fish – Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors “Everybody lives and loves and laughs and cries and eats and sleeps and grows and dies” – Marillion “Everything I say is wrapped up in an old Cliché” – Fish In late 1988 Marillion were faced with a scenario that only Genesis …
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Marillion – B’Sides Themselves, The Thieving Magpie, Fish Splits and Tic-Tac-Toe “The first best move I made in the music business was joining the band, the second best was leaving it.” Fish (1993 interview with Anil Prasad) With the release of Clutching At Straws the band immediately set out on another massive tour lasting over …
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Marillion – Brief Encounter/Clutching At Straws “So if you want my address it’s number one at the end of the bar. Where I sit with the broken angels, Clutching at straws and nursing our scars” Following the release of Misplaced Childhood the band jauntily set out on a world tour that lasted from May 1985 through …
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Marillion – Real To Reel/Misplaced Childhood “A love song with no validity. Pretend you never meant that much to me” The Fugazi tour saw the band perform around 60 shows mostly in the Europe and Great Britain but it also included a few in the Eastern US and Canada…notably multiple shows in Montreal and Quebec …
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