Track listing
- 1.1 A Few Words for the Dead
- 1.2 This Town / The Rakes Progress / 100 Nights
- 1.3 This Is the 21st Century
- 1.4 Ocean Cloud
- 1.5 If My Heart Were a Ball It Would Roll Uphill
- 2.1 Interior Lulu
- 2.2 Kayleigh / Lavender / Heart of Lothian
- 2.3 The Invisible Man
- 2.4 This Strange Engine
- 2.5 Neverland
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The definitive live by Marillion.
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For the Sunday gig of the 2009 Marillion Weekend convention, the band chose to put together a setlist focusing on their longer tracks. (No, before you ask, they didn't get around to playing Grendel!) It's actually mildly surprising how varied the tracks they have to select from are, and from what a wide range of albums they are drawn from, underlining the point that the band have never really turned their back on long, epic compositions to the extent people have accused them of.
Hardcore fans might find room to quibble over the finer points of the setlist - for instance, I'd have rather had the evening's nod to the Fish era have consisted of the opening triptych from Clutching At Straws (Hotel Hobbies/Warm Wet Circles/That Time of the Night) as opposed to the rather tired Kayleigh/Lavender/Heart of Lothian workthrough, not least because Steve Hogarth generally does a really good job of interpreting the Clutching songs. A more significant problem with the set stems from the very nature of the experiment - with no shorter pieces thrown in to act as palate-cleansers, it can feel like a bit of a slog. (Owners of the Live In Montreal Sunday set should be aware that this is essentially a different rendition of more or less the same setlist - it's down to you whether you think that this set would neatly complement the Montreal gig or simply be redundant.)
Hardcore fans might find room to quibble over the finer points of the setlist - for instance, I'd have rather had the evening's nod to the Fish era have consisted of the opening triptych from Clutching At Straws (Hotel Hobbies/Warm Wet Circles/That Time of the Night) as opposed to the rather tired Kayleigh/Lavender/Heart of Lothian workthrough, not least because Steve Hogarth generally does a really good job of interpreting the Clutching songs. A more significant problem with the set stems from the very nature of the experiment - with no shorter pieces thrown in to act as palate-cleansers, it can feel like a bit of a slog. (Owners of the Live In Montreal Sunday set should be aware that this is essentially a different rendition of more or less the same setlist - it's down to you whether you think that this set would neatly complement the Montreal gig or simply be redundant.)
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Marillion do the long numbers, or a combination of numbers that have been played together often. So it's a really hostile to easy listening set. It's not bad at all but inevitably the long, in some cases, not dissimilar in style numbers makes it one for the committed fan only or for those who wish to mis-label Marillion as merely a ponderous prog rock band.
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