Category: FISH

“The Last Straw [Live In Glasgow 2018]” double album was recorded at the final show of FISH’s ‘Clutching at Straws / Weltschmerz tour’ at the O2 in Glasgow, Scotland, on December 13, 2018. It features an entire performance of 1987’s Clutching At Straws, Fish’s fourth and final album with the band Marillion.
Clutching at the Straws was the follow-up to Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood album, which hit #1 in the UK thanks to top 5 hits “Kayleigh” and “Lavender.” Straws delved into Fish’s struggles with fame on songs like the top-10 UK hit “Incommunicado” and his difficulties with alcoholism on songs like “Sugar Mice.”
The show also features four songs from Weltschmerz, which Fish has said will be his last album. Interestingly, though, these recordings are from 2018 while the Weltschmerz album wasn’t released until 2020. However, three of the songs (“Man with a Stick,” “Waverly Steps,” “Little Man What Now”) had been previously released on Fish’s EP Parley With Angels.
Only available at Fish’s website on physical format, “The Last Straw [Live In Glasgow 2018]” was produced by Steve Vantsis & mastered by Calum Malcolm. The sound quality is superb, crystalline…

“This party’s over” snarls FISH on ”Weltschmerz”, and, this time, it seems the big man really means it. After threatening retirement for many years, the ex- Marillion singer has finally called time on his recording career.
His final present to the fans is a double album that looks back on his 32 years as a solo artist. And it’s really fascinating.
Over the decades the charismatic Scot has moved steadily from mainstream to cult status. He’s dabbled in pop (e.g “State of Mind”), hard rock…

* Derek William Dick or simply FISH always will be ‘the vocalist’ of Marillion. Although Hogarth is great, he was the singer when we all fell in love with Marillion. Since Fish left the band for a solo career I was not too much hooked with his music.Well, things have changed with his fresh new album “A Feast Of Consequences”...