Why Fish left Marillion!!!!
Bastiaan V D Broek
This is the truth. Fish said this in several magazines in Holland.
He also said it in the Fanclubmagazine Freaks Netherlands.
Marillion wrote the music for the album and they wanted Fish to come up
with the lyrics. That is what Fish did, but he sang the lyrics.
And that is were it went wrong. The way Fish wanted to do (melody) the lyrics
did not fit into the music. Marillion didn't agree, they didn't want to
change the songs. Fish left. A few weeks later they met again in a casle in
Scotland to give it one more try. But the new album WOULDN'T be a Marillion
album and that is why Fish left. The other guys didn't try to keep Fish
because it simply wouldn't work. They tried (both sides) and I think it is
a wise decission.
And yes it is a tragedy Fish left but we got to live with it.
Something else...
Songs Fish wanted on the new Marillion album.
Album title: Vigil in a wilderness of mirrors.
First title of Vigil: A voice in the crowd.
View from the hill would also be on the album. (What Marillion did on Berlin!!)
Cliche was also written for the album, Marillion didn't like it.
I love Seasons end and I love Vigil, but Marillion could NEVER release and play
songs like Big Wedge, State of mind, Voyeur, Faith healer.
(by the way the new album was never intended to be a double album with covers,
Fish or Marillion never said this)
I have seen both Fish and Marillion twice since the split and all 4 shows were
great. You americans know what Marillion played cause the have been to the US.
This is what Fish played: Voyeur, Punch & Judy, State of mind, Assassing,
The Company, Script, Family Business, Incubus, A gentleman's excuse me,
Sugar mice, Vigil, Kayleigh, Lavender, Heart of lothian (Wide boys).
encores: Cliche, Big Wedge, Internal exile.
Internal excile is a song about Scotland written to be on the Vigil album but
left off because Fish had enough songs and because is really is a top10 single
(a Hit single) and it will be on the next album.
Fish already finished writing the new album. They planned it for October!!!!
The title: The shadowplay and the Celtic illumination.
Enough inspiration for Mark Wilkinson to do the new cover.
Vigil cover:
I never read any stories about the cover, well there is a lot to tell.
Mark Kelly is on the cover with John Arnison. (Near the fire!!)
There is a jester in the middle and left-bottem in the trash there is the
jesters cap. On the garbage can it says Welcome: Skyline drifters.
That is the name Marillion used early 80's during one of their tours.
(they were GOOD GUYS then) no Fish thinks they belong in the trash.
I think Fish didn't had to go that far.
Fish also said in an interview that a lot of old Marillion songs are on the
cover. Songs like: Incommunicado, Forgotten sons, White Russian, Incubus,
Assassing.
Any suggestions were I can find those songs?
Forgotten sons are the soldiers ofcourse.
I am proud to say that Fish will play in Holland again this summer.
He is playing in Utrecht on june 13th & 14th.
The second night is for fanclubmembers only and he is going to play a new
setlist.
Greetings from Amsterdam Holland, Bastiaan.
Michael Lee
>Internal excile is a song about Scotland written to be on the Vigil album but
>left off because Fish had enough songs and because is really is a top10 single
>(a Hit single) and it will be on the next album.
>Fish already finished writing the new album. They planned it for October!!!!
>The title: The shadowplay and the Celtic illumination.
>Enough inspiration for Mark Wilkinson to do the new cover.
What a fall this will be...Sting, Gabriel, and now a new Fish....
male art-rock lead vocalists gone insane! :) Why do you think that Fish
is planning a new album only eight months after the last one? I would guess,
especially if Internal Exile is shaping up to be a hit single, that Fish
didn't work to hard to get Vigil released in The Big Wedge, but possibly
The Shadowplay and the Celtic Illumination will be....We can dream, of course.
>I never read any stories about the cover, well there is a lot to tell.
>Mark Kelly is on the cover with John Arnison. (Near the fire!!)
>There is a jester in the middle and left-bottem in the trash there is the
>jesters cap. On the garbage can it says Welcome: Skyline drifters.
>That is the name Marillion used early 80's during one of their tours.
>(they were GOOD GUYS then) no Fish thinks they belong in the trash.
>I think Fish didn't had to go that far.
>Fish also said in an interview that a lot of old Marillion songs are on the
>cover. Songs like: Incommunicado, Forgotten sons, White Russian, Incubus,
>Assassing.
>Any suggestions were I can find those songs?
>Forgotten sons are the soldiers ofcourse.
I noticed Kelly...who is John Arninson? I recognise the name....There are a few
other celebrities --- I think there is a picture of Madonna picture on the Hill.I'm not sure who some of the other people are...Though there is a guitar
sinking into the mud on there, to contrast with the picture of a clown on
Season's End. Considering Steve Rothery (Marillion's Guitarist) was Fish's
main collaborator on the Marillion material, it's interesting.
I also noticed the Jester's Cap -- any bets this is the the last Fish/Marillion
album this is on? It's interesting how both Vigil and Season's End have the
Jester's cap and other jester/fish symbols being destroyed.. Assassing is also
obvious on the cover. However, in over all artistic slams, Fish wins -- by
"The Company" alone....
By the way, Assassing is a very ironic song for Fish to be doing, because,
it is about the sacking of Mick Pointer, the original drummer of Marillion.
I wasn't aware of the Skyline drifters....That is very interesting and one of
several nasty slams on the covers of the albums.
Of course, if you aren't interested in Marillion, I apologize for wasting your
time..
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"Where are the prophets, where are the visionaries, where are the poets
to breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary"
-Fish, "Fugazi", 1984