A few days after speaking to Steve Rothery of Marillion, John Wenlock-Smith caught up with frontman Steve Hogarth in a brief telephone conversation, recounted below, covering the new Marillion orchestral album. So Steve, did you find your way back home…
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Steve Rothery this year celebrates two significant milestones, one of reaching the grand age of 60 and also that of having spent some 40 years with the band Marillion, who he had joined in 1979 when they were called Silmarillion,…
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Aula Magna, Lisbon, Portugal Friday, 31st May – Sunday, 2nd June 2019 Around 2 years before this event Marillion’s go getting manager Lucy Jordache visited Lisbon to gauge whether it was an appropriate City for one of the band’s bi…
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“How was it for you?” Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool / The Barbican, York 20th & 22nd April 2018 Much had been made of Marillion’s return to the more comfortable seated concert halls for a brief U.K. tour, following up their grand…
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The Palladium, London Tuesday, 7th November 2017 When Marillion are in this kind of mood, few bands are able to scale the heights of their sheer energy, presence and captivating virtuosity. Fresh from a triumphant evening at the Royal Albert…
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Klub Wytwórnia, Łodz, Poland 7th – 9th April 2017 Marillion Weekend – A Fan’s Perspective [With photos courtesy of Alan Jones, The Web U.K., used with many thanks] When I was a child my favourite day of the year was…
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2016 has been another very good year for music at the progressive end of the spectrum, a bumper crop of new releases to digest, and assimilate. On the down side, the genre has lost way too many of its heroes…
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The Tramshed, Cardiff 3rd December 2016 It is a truly wonderful thing to see a band more than 30 years after you first saw them, a band that never split up and then reformed for the inevitable nostalgia trail but…
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Yes, it’s a Christmas album, but bear with me, it’s a Marillion Christmas Album, now read on… A Collection Of Recycled Gifts is a collection of Christmas songs that Marillion have released to their fans over the years together with…
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