The Marillion Round Table

I can't think of anything more daft. You go to see a band, who have a "new" singer, with lots of great fresh material they want to play to you, and all you do is shout for the old guys stuff.

You were pissed off? I can well imagine H being very pissed off, to the extent I would ask why you bothered to pay money to see a band you obviously had no interest in hearing?

The band did go through a patch where they more or less never (with a very few exceptions) played any Fish-era stuff and got very hostile to anyone who kept dredging the matter up. I can sympathise, but on the other hand I think it was a bit of a misstep, not least because loudly declaring where your sore spots are isn't the best move if you want people to stop laughing at you and take you seriously. I remember being quite put off by the press release they issued around the time of Anoraknophobia which was basically an angry challenge to the music press - not the sort of stance you want to take if you want people to actually give your music a fair chance, and really weird timing considering that there are a number of subtle Fish-era callbacks on that album.

That said, I think they're more comfortable with their past and the "prog" label, though. They typically pull out one Fish-era song per gig, which isn't much but when you consider that they've now put out 3 times as many studio albums (not counting Less Is More) with H than they did with Fish I think it's decent of them to keep making space in on the setlist for that old material.

Don't shout for Grendel, though, there's no faster way to tag yourself as someone who's yelling at the band purely for the sake of yelling at the band.

 

I need that one on vinyl too.....

 

Few yrs ago I found both marillion.com and Somewhere Else while vinyl shopping, out of the gate I connected more with .com. I still struggle with Somwehere Else to this day...

Yep, Interior Lulu is worth the cd on its own.

 

Neil Peart is still the new guy.....

Its a 3 star album for me which is good.