The official FRIARS Aylesbury compendium
Page last updated 24th May 2008
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Maxwell Hall, Civic Centre, Market
Square, Aylesbury
John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
Saturday February 20th 1982
see also Otway and Barrett Saturday June 16th 1973 Monday September 20th 1976 Saturday March 19th 1977 Thursday May 25th 1978 Saturday February 20th 1982
see also John Otway Thursday December 23rd 1971 Saturday 13th September 1975 Saturday March 20th 1976 Tuesday December 6th 1977 Sunday August 13th 1978 Saturday April 28th 1979 Thursday December 27th 1979 Sunday December 28th 1980 Saturday March 5th 1983
see also Willy Barrett Monday June 16th 1969 Monday June 23rd 1969 Friday February 11th 1972
see also Marillion Saturday August 1st 1981 Saturday October 31st 1981 Saturday June 19th 1982 Friday March 18th 1983 Thursday December 29th 1983 Saturday December 22nd 1984
see also No Nonsense Friday May 29th 1981
see also Cruise Saturday June 19th 1982
Marillion No Nonsense Cruise
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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!"
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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.
John Otway official site Wild Willy Barrett official site Pete Lumley/Powders official site
Sights and sounds - Otway - Bunsen Burner (video version) (2002)
Sights and sounds - Marillion - Grendel (1983)
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