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 Ian Mosley
Ticket
from Andrew Mian:
The webmaster, north Bucks:
The Friars Christmas Party and the glorious local boys
homecoming. Marillion were great as ever, but what was this for the
support act? Yes it was Nigel Planer, he of The Young Ones and he appeared
with long hair as Neil from said show and performed a hippy orientated set
(remember the “let’s have some Marillion line from The Young Ones?) which
was fairly amusing but before he had the hit single with Hole in my Shoe.
What was funny though was when David Stopps came on stage to
introduce Marillion, Planer, still as Neil, came on and took over saying
that “it’s in my contract that I have to introduce Marillion or I’ll get
my bollocks kicked!” to everyone’s amusement...and Mr Stopps' bemusement.
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.
