Pete Lumley (Cruise),
writing
for the Friars Aylesbury
website in 2008 said:
"Thought
I'd drop you a line after looking on the Friars website. I played drums
with Cruise who supported Marillion in the 80's, great site and took me
back!I'm still playing drums with The Powders and supported John Ottoway
in 2006 at Hobbles on the Cobbles which also took me back as the last time
I played there was 1976!"
Otway is, was and always
will be an Aylesbury legend. After Really Free gave Otway his one hit
wonder status in 1977 which he regularly played on ('I'm now going to do a
selection of my hit'), he confounded everyone by being back on Top of the
Pops in 2002, 25 years after last troubling the charts, with the
entertaining 'Bunsen Burner'. Plans for a world Otway tour where he took
the audience with him in a plane fell through in 2006. He's still gigging
today, occasionally with Wild Willy himself.
Marillion went on to 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.
