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Review – Marillion – Seasons End 2023 Remix (Deluxe Edition) – by Leo Trimming
Seasons End, first released in 1989, is the last release in Marillion’s series of EMI era deluxe re-issues. It is also the most pivotal album in the band’s history as it marked the beginning of the ?h era of Marillion with Steve Hogarth as the vocalist. Steve Hogarth has been around ever since and has…
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Review – Marillion – Holidays In Eden – 2022 Remix Deluxe Edition – by Leo Trimming
Holidays in Eden, first released in 1991, is the latest edition in Marillion’s series of deluxe re-releases. This was a release for which their record company E.M.I. had high expectations of the band after Steve Hogarth’s debut album with the band in 1989. Seasons End was relatively successful, but crucially for E.M.I. it did not…
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Review – Marillion – An Hour Before It’s Dark
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. – Kurt Vonnegut With ‘An Hour Before It’s Dark’, Marillion release one of their most upbeat albums of their career while, at the same time, they once again…
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Marillion – ‘The Light At The End Of The Tunnel’ Tour – Live At Hull City Hall – Sunday, November 14th, 2021
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Interview With Steve Hogarth – 29th September, 2021
Legendary British progressive rock band Marillion embark on a UK tour, ‘The Light At The End OF The Tunnel’, in November 2021, ahead of their recently announced 20th album ‘An Hour Before It’s Dark’ and I sat down to chat with frontman Steve Hogarth about the upcoming live gigs… Progradar: Hi Steve and thanks for…
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Review – Mark Kelly’s Marathon – by John Wenlock-Smith
Well, this one nearly passed me by but, thankfully, thanks to recommendations from a friend, I was able to capture this one. Apparently Mark Kelly has been planning a solo album for nearly 30 years but it was the national lockdown that was the window in which he was finally able to realise his plans.…
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Marillion – Release Video of Lockdown Version of Made Again
“We had the idea to do a ‘lockdown’ version of Made Again for you all. Unbeknownst to us, our manager Lucy made a call (via social media) to ask fans to send in videos of themselves, in the hope of replicating the ‘Made Again Stage Invasion’ (at our Marillion Weekend in 2013) to surprise us! Lucy and…
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Review – Marillion – Afraid Of Sunlight – Deluxe Edition Re-Release
Today sees Leo Trimming helping Progradar catching up with the most recent deluxe edition re-release before the imminent deluxe edition of Script for a Jester’s Tear in April! Marillion’s great series of re-releases in Deluxe editions continues with Afraid of Sunlight , first released in 1995. This was the last album Marillion made for EMI,…
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Marillion With Friends From The Orchestra – Live at The Royal Albert Hall – 18/11/19
Marillion, that’s that band with that Fish bloke in, did that song called Kayleigh…? If you’re a fan of the very long career of UK progressive band Marillion then you’ll have heard that question many a time. They have made it fashionable to be unfashionable in an ever changing industry that rewards the latest thing,…
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Live Review – Marillion at York Barbican 22nd April 2018 – by Progradar
“Play Seasons End, play Seasons End, please.play.Seasons.End…Fuck, they’re playing Seasons End!!” And that, my friends, made what was already an incredible, emotive and stunning gig by one of my all time favourite bands the best gig I’ve ever been to. Yes, it was that bloody good! Now I know I’m a lucky sod, I get…