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Somebody's given this quite a bit of thought, just recently.


http://thequietus.com/articles/11897-marillion-script-for-a-jester-s-tear-anniversary


"The end result is not ideal: the harlequin affectations and meandering frilliness of British prog, delivered like a can of piss hurled into the back of your head."


"I'm certain ? albeit for no particular reason ? that Fish is a really nice bloke, and not for the first time I feel like I'm chucking an old teddy bear onto the landfill."

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Tough gig, yeah. But plenty of places where he could cut back on expenses... he's probably still stuck in a "big band" mentality, even though he's now playing to a few hundred people. e.g. bringing your own lighting guy and backline tech on tour is just not necessary at this level of touring.
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ok so I've genuinely met Fish (several times) and can confirm he is officially a very nice bloke and massively down to earth. He's also about 7 ft tall. He was a neighbour of ours back in a land of golden barley fields, beyond Hadrians wall.


Some (but not al) of his solo stuff is in fact pretty decent.

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Strange/lovely place, East Lothian.


Ragged sandstone keeps and castles spike flat, blood-soaked fields that gentry-farmers reap so they can send their large-toothed sons up to Belhaven, Loretto and Sandhurst.


Audi-driving Edinburgh commuters flash past lost islands of ex-mining, two-buses-a-day, pebble-dashed misery.


Hungry seagulls rail at the North Sea all along the golf coast.


Not surprise Mr Dick got a bit...introspective at times. That and all the drucks, obvs.

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