ANORAK IN THE UK LIVE

This is a very high quality live release finds Marillion as boisterous and as forceful live as they'd been at any point since Fish left. The renditions of material from Radiation, Marillion.com and Anoraknophobia lend new life to those compositions, overcoming the occasionally patchy production values which at points caused problems for the earlier two albums in that trilogy (especially Radiation), whilst the occasional snippet from Brave, Afraid of Sunlight or This Strange Engine helps put the band's recent experiments in context and makes them seem like not such a departure for Marillion after all.

If you decide to go for this one, I recommend tracking down the 2CD version from the band themselves if you can, because the extra material is worth it and all you're missing out from the 1CD version is a rendition of Easter - and that's been on so many live Marillion albums that you really don't need yet another version of it if you've collected more than two or three H-era live discs already.