I just heard a few of the tracks tonight - however, I was surprised how well Hogarth does the Fish stuff, and he seems confident this early, definitely interesting at least if not a great live comp from that period Even with that said, it's not ever bad - only a bit not quite there. There's some stuff here and there that shows it's not quite a fully formed new band, but it's rather good anywayīest tracks are Easter, Seasons End, and Berlin - the shorter pieces on here are probably the worst, however it didn't take long for them to do both well. The loss of Fish is so obvious just from the master - it's not so much Hogarth's vocals. A feeling of 'OK, this is something that we can get behind.' It was pretty cool.īand finding where to look in terms of songwriting.

When he started to sing, there was kind of a sigh of relief from the crowd-and, if I'm not mistaken, from the band. It was really a cool entrance-he had great confidence but without swagger, and the expression on his face was kind of a shy smile. Then, as the intro subsided into the quiet bit that heralds the vocal entrance, Hogarth walked on stage. The band took the stage as a four piece, just the instrumentalists, and launched into the instrumental intro to The King of Sunset Town, -they sounded great! So there were a bunch of Marillion fans packed into that relatively small space, and there was definitely apprehension in the air: what was this going to be like? How would the new guy sing the Fish songs? How can this even work?

(That was the only show I ever saw at that venue, since they usually booked more harder-edged acts that were not to my taste at the time.) I saw Marillion on their Season's End tour at a small but mighty club in Maryland called Hammerjack's.

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