Ok, here's an interesting trivia on Mr. Derek Dick's MARILLION. Who'll be the first one to come up with the answers?

1. Which was the last song written for the "Script" album?
2. Which was the original title to "Market Square Heroes"?
3. Where and when was the lyric to "Market Square Heroes" written?
4. Which was the alternative sub-title to "Garden Party"?
5. When and where MARILLION premiered "Assassin"?
6. What was the name of the character from "Clutching"? And what was he supposed to do for a living?
7. According to FISH, what does "That Time of the Night" stand for?
8. Which lyric did FISH write in 1980 right before he joined MARILLION?
9. Which was the only track the band managed to write within 4 weeks?
10. Name the favorite track and album of FISH out of his entire MARILLION experience.

Good luck!

And try not to "google" this one up you guys!  

1. The title track, actually. Tha texplains that the piano intro is so underdeveloped: Kelly actually likes it that way, and so do all Marillion fans. In its original conception it also included the soliloquy 'An irritating speck of dirt that came from absolutely nowhere' as a spoken intro, but it eventually ended up in the middle of 'Incubus'.

4. The Cucumber Massacre (I think I've missed a word or two)

6. Torch: a novelist, a drunken one acutally, who's suffering a dry spell and takes a bitter look at his past and present life.

7. His resignation letter to Marillion... although he continued with the band when plans for the following album were already on the run, but that he said a few times in interviews.

8. Chelsea Monday? (I'm not so sure... and probably I'm wrong, but I think I remember I kind of overheard...).

10. I know his fave Marillion album is 'Clutching at Straws'. I can't tell you abut the other part. My fave CaS track is 'White Russian', but I would bet Fish's own faveourite is one of the romantic songs.

  Did I pass?

Here:

1.- Well done César! "Script for a Jester's Tear" it is

4.- Pretty close, but this was a difficult one. "The Great Cucumber Massacre" is the correct answer (as you said, you were a word short)

6.- And "Torch" he was. The novelist trying to create the follow up to a succesful book and losing himself in the world of drink and drugs.

7.- Right on! And I quote: "My resignation statement"

8.- Sadly, no. But the song was included in the "Script" album though

10.- Correct about the album my friend!  But the song?  I can tell you it was romantic alright!

10. 'Sugar Mice'? He wrote the lyrics after a phone argument with his soon-to-be-wife (now divorced).

Cesar Inca wrote: 10. 'Sugar Mice'? He wrote the lyrics after a phone argument with his soon-to-be-wife (now divorced).

Correct! Wrote the lyric after a personal experience in Milwaukee on a tour of the USA.

That was his personal experience, the phone argument.

Ah! Hogarth's fave Fish-era Marillion song is from 'Clutching', too - 'Warm Wet Circles'. Someone else knows the right answers to the remaining questions?

Cesar Inca wrote: That was his personal experience, the phone argument.

I know   I just didn't want to be that harsh on good old Derek by bringing that up!  

C'mon you guys! César has pulled for the team pretty good! How 'bout the rest of you?  Or should I just give away the rest of the trivia?

1. Which was the last song written for the "Script" album?
2. Which was the original title to "Market Square Heroes"?
3. Where and when was the lyric to "Market Square Heroes" written?
4. Which was the alternative sub-title to "Garden Party"?
5. When and where MARILLION premiered "Assassin"?
6. What was the name of the character from "Clutching"? And what was he supposed to do for a living?
7. According to FISH, what does "That Time of the Night" stand for?
8. Which lyric did FISH write in 1980 right before he joined MARILLION?
9. Which was the only track the band managed to write within 4 weeks?
10. Name the favorite track and album of FISH out of his entire MARILLION experience.

ANSWERS

1. Script for a Jester's Tear
2. "UB 2, 000, 001" (as reference to the unemplyment statistics at the time)
3. St. Mary's graveyard in Aylesbury, in the Summer of 1981
4. "The Great Cucumber Massacre"
5. The song was premiered at Glastonbury in 1983
6. The character from "Clutching..." was named "Torch" and he was the novelist trying to create the follow up to a successful book and losing himself in the world of drinking and drugs.
7. I quote: "My resignation letter"
8. "Garden Party"
9. "Assassing"
10. "Sugar Mice" from "Clutching at Straws"

Thanx to all who participated in this trivia (that'd be my Peruvian brother César Inca), and next time I won't take it that easy on you guys!

Peace,

Land

Note: All the questions and the answers to the trivia, were taken from "The Best of Both Worlds" CD booklet