2002
Label: Racket Records (2) - RACKET 12A • Format: CD Album, Compilation • Country: UK • Genre: Rock • Style: Prog Rock

It seems that even today not an interview passes without his name appearing like a bad smell. Later Hogarth will go further, and admit that until recently the whole Fish thing had really got under his skin. It was so destructive. And we did this last-ditch thing up in Scotland. Nobody thought it was Album) to work, really. And then it all kicked off. We were writing in one room, and Fish was somewhere else.

One would have thought a band finding themselves in that position would… well, shit themselves. We auditioned so many people, none of whom were anywhere near what we were looking for.

But we were writing music all this time. It seems that some sort of sense of inner peace pervaded the entire period of what most would assume was an intensely worrying time for Marillion.

Even the process of replacing such a domineering front figure seems to have been handled in a relaxed manner. And yet Fish was, rightly The Space (Live) - Marillion - marillion.co.uk (CD wrongly, deemed to effectively have been Marillion throughout the majority of the s. He was a charismatic frontman and a great lyricist, and we knew it would be very hard to replace him. We did have some quite hysterical moments with people prancing around with make-up on. And we sifted through all that, and eventually, months and months later, Steve turned up.

I was in the process of jacking it all in, selling our little house Album) Windsor. We were going to move to Derbyshire, where back then you could buy some place for virtually nothing, and get a no-brain job like a milkman and live a quiet life and get real again. Being Christmas, everyone was hung over from a party. It really was like that. So I started thinking about it a bit more. In Fish you had a large and larger-than-life figure who exuded bar-friendly bonhomie.

The smaller Hogarth brought with him a slightly darker air of mystery, as well as a very different and distinctive voice. He was a day late, too, The Space (Live) - Marillion - marillion.co.uk (CD, and we had to stand outside in the cold as it was January. And how was this meeting for the new man? So I took a deep breath, listened to what they were doing and did it. That was King Of Sunset Town.

A lot of the songs came together very quickly. The first meeting was round at my house. He was a day late, too, and we had to stand outside in the cold. It soon became apparent to all parties The Space (Live) - Marillion - marillion.co.uk (CD Marillion had found their man.

So we went away to this residential rehearsal studio in Brighton and spent three weeks down there. After three weeks we all felt it was working, and I was in. It was another major hurdle, for Hogarth in particular, to negotiate. Fish must have been a lot of the reason these people were so nuts about the band. But I was so frightened about what would happen. It was supposed to be secret but it got out. There were people outside on the road and trying to get in through the window.

But they loved it. Having ably cleared both hurdles so far placed in front of them, Hogarth and his new bandmates set about the task of crafting their musical ideas into tangible slices of new sound for the band. It was very natural and effortless. It felt very easy. Marillion without Fish? But Seasons End put the doubts to rest. Musically, Seasons End was a subtle progression, peaking with the elegant Easter and a green-themed title track developed from Beaujolais Daya song the band demoed with Fish in Seasons End charted Album) No.

He would be pleased to know that 17 albums into their career, the band were still bursting with ideas. The songs drip with longing and regret, and no one delivers those emotions quite like Marillion. Brave EMI, Marbles Intact, The title track is full of quintessentially English black humour. Market Square Heroes was actually an A-side, the debut single, left off the first album but always a live favourite.

Marillion went straight for the mainstream with the second album of the Steve Hogarth era, and in truth the results were mixed. Clearly Marillion were not cut out to be pop stars. Somewhere Else Intact, Marillion are one of the few who can.

Their 14th album received widespread acclaim. Somewhere Else features some of the most beautiful songs the band has ever recorded: Faith, Thankyou Wherever You Areand the expansive title track. Oh, the irony. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer.

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