Charting The Single; Garden Party; He Knows
You Know; Punch and Judy; Forgotten Sons; Emerald Lies; Chelsea Monday;
Assassing; Script For A Jester´s Tear; Market Square Heroes; Margaret
Fish Pete Trewavas
Steve Rothery Mark Kelly Mick Pointer
The webmaster, north Bucks:
This was a celebratory occasion. Marillion had headlined Friars
before as a ‘local’ gig but now they were in big boys territory and on
this tour played two gigs at Hammersmith Odeon. Script for a Jester’s Tear
really broke the band and they would go on to bigger things and still play
their home town. A cracking gig and a very triumphant homecoming. Who can
forget Margaret? or indeed Market Square Heroes which was very
appropriate.
Marillion were the biggest
thing out of Aylesbury for years and by the mid eighties were filling huge
arenas. Fish left the band in 1988 and has since released a considerable
number of solo albums and is still touring. Marillion employed Steve
Hogarth as their new singer and nearly 20 years on, retain a loyal and big
fanbase which paid for one album to be made in return for credit on the
sleeve. Their style has changed with only an occasional nod back to the
Fish era.
In 2007, Fish headlined
Aylesbury's Hobble on the Cobble annual event, finally being able to sing
Market Square Heroes in the Market Square. What made this particularly
noteworthy and indeed very newsworthy was that he replaced his band for
this song with Messrs Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas and Mosley making this the
first 'classic' Marillion performance in nearly 20 years.
