Marillion will undertake a nine date UK tour in September 2022. The tour will go on sale at 10am on Friday 11 March. The band said, "We are once again looking forward to our shows in September in conjunction with Kilimanjaro and we can't wait to get out there and play the new album to the fans". The tour..
Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark (Ear Music)
Sunnier segments and crisper arrangements than on FEAR… Photos by: Anne-Marie Forker Photography No one knows how much time they've got left… sings Steve Hogarth in Care, the immaculate closing track of Marillion's twentieth and latest album An Hour Before It's Dark. Simple but compelling words to those of us who have not only weathered..
MARK KELLY – Marillion, Misadventures And Marathons (Kingmaker Publishing) (Book Review)
Mark Kelly, keyboard man with Marillion since almost the very beginning, has certainly lived a life less ordinary, and can justly claim to have a story to tell, including why he found himself standing on the ledge of a hotel window in Luxembourg and questioning his life’s choices; he’s been to the top of the..
MARILLION – New album ‘An Hour Before It’s Dark’ to be released March 2022 – Hear the first single now
earMUSIC is delighted to announce the release of Marillion’s 20th studio album An Hour Before It’s Dark on March 4th, 2022. A first peak into the album is available as of now with the single Be Hard On Yourself. An Hour Before It's Dark - Whether it's the last hour you were allowed to play..
MARILLION ASK FANS TO ‘INSURE’ THEIR ‘LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL’ TOUR
Band ask fans to ‘insure’ they keep the show on the road Marillion have come up with a unique way to solve the problem of not being able to buy Pandemic insurance ahead of their UK tour. The band has already invested more than £150,000 on preparations for the 10-date “The Light at The End..
POETS, PROPHETS, VISIONARIES – Fish and Pete Trewavas on Marillion’s Fugazi album, and the new deluxe reissue
The 'difficult second album'. It's one of the most repeated cliches in rock music over the last few decades, but the number of bands who have their own examples are legion. Marillion were no exception when Fugazi arrived a year after the debut Script For A Jester's Tear in 1984. Personnel changes, producer issues and..
MARILLION ‘Light At The End Of The Tunnel’ UK tour set for November
Marillion bring their 'The Light At The End Of The Tunnel' tour to the stages of Britain with a 10-date tour in November culminating in 2 nights at the London Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith. Steve Hogarth says: “No, it isn’t a train coming the other way, it is in fact, The Light at the End of..
Marillion – Fugazi deluxe edition (Parlophone)
'Fugazi is a good record, but could probably do with a remixing.'Nick Tauber, producer The weary jester lies alone, disrobed and sprawled across a hotel bed on a night that has too soon become morning. Evidence of meaningless trysts and the indulgences of his lifestyle lay strewn about him. Real and imagined objects pepper the..
MARILLION – WITH FRIENDS AT ST DAVIDS (Racket Records)
WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT STRINGS, ANYWAY? - An observation, incorporating Marillion – With Friend’s at St Davids I’m ambivalent about live albums. I’m *really* ambivalent about “orchestral rock” albums And Marillion are genuinely something of a conundrum. Which if nothing else, stops rabid Marillion fans (who will by now already have the album anyway), from..
MARILLION – New live album with orchestra, coming May 28
On May 28th, Marillion will release their new live album With Friends At St David’s, recorded in Cardiff in November 2019. It all started with the release of With Friends From The Orchestra in 2019, when Marillion teamed up with In Praise Of Folly, a string quartet accompanied by Sam Morris (French Horn) and Emma..