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Marillion - "Recital of the Script" - DVD (1983)

Label - EMI
Reviewed by: Jason Carzon
Genre: Prog Rock
Country: England
Language: English
Length: 87 minutes
Release Date: August 12, 2003
Label:
EMI
Band Members: Fish / vocals Mark Kelly / keyboards
  Mik Pointer / drums, percussion Steve Rothery / acoustic & electric guitars
  Pete Trewavas / basses
 
 

'Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, April 18th 1983'

Total Time: 81:30

Bonus Material: 'Live At The Marquee, London, England, 1982'

Total Time: 11:04

Track Listing: 1.)- Script For A Jester's Tear (8:45) 1.)- He Knows You Know (5:27)
  2.)- Garden Party (7:00) 2.)- Backstage (1:03)
  3.)- The Web (10:06) 3.)-Market Square Heroes (excerpt) (1:32)
  4.)-Chelsea Monday (7:45) 4.)-Fish Interview (3:05)
  5.)- He Knows You Know (6:23)  
  6.)-Forgotten Sons (13:58)  
  7.)- Market Square Heroes (8:27)
  8.)-Grendel (18:02)  
  9.)-Credits (1:04)  
     
The Review

It's hard to imagine any fan of the early Marillion- one of the first and most popular of the Neo-prog bands of the early 80's- not having this. This disc captures a youthful and exuberant Marillion live at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1983, long before the hits, long before the bitter split with vocalist and early focal point FISH, long before Steve Hogarth or the concept of fans buying a CD before it's even written. Here, the band are on top of the game and feeds the audience well with a show consisting of all of the material from their first album, Script For A Jester's Tear(1983), as well as the early anthem 'Market Square Heroes' as well as their 18 minute epic 'Grendel'.***

This is early stuff, shot at a time when the world was ripe for conquering. Fish is in full face warpaint, and the band attacks with the fist-in-face audacity of a heavy metal combo. The audience and overall aura of this early unit certainly is closer to NWOBHM bans of that same era than to the ponderous indulgeance of the progressive rock they were championing. This was prog with balls. The focal point is indeed Fish, whose towering presence casts long shadows over the whole band even to this day. He 'acts' the songs, rather than merely sings them, and, like Peter Gabriel before him(who he was constantly compared to then), relies on a few stage props and visual melodramatics to ram it home. This would include ripping the leaves off of a plant on stage, pulling a boy from the audience and mock-assaulting him, and coming out in full military fatigues firing his mike stand musket into the crowd to the rhythm. All this to the delight of the audience. When Fish pulls a kid from the audience during the lengthy 'Grendel' and pretends to slap him around, the kid's expression is priceless- as in 'Is this guy INSANE? What if he does hit me!'. But that element of danger certainly enhanced the mood of the show. The music? Energetic, atmospheric, anthemic, and rocked. The one unsung but vital heroe of Marillion for me is Pete Trewavas, who holds the spirit of Marillion close with him and supplies a sort of visual and musical link from all of the band's eras when all others have discarded the past. Most of the material from this era, as well as most of the Fish-era songs in general(including Kayleigh and the like), have been disowned by the band these days. So it's great to see it here when it was fresh. This DVD is of historical value.***

Other highlights include THE WEB, which the band hasn't performed since, The afore-mentioned GRENDEL, and the anthemic MARKET SQUARE HEROES which is extended into a lengthy jam and has the audience going nuts. Also of note is that this was the last live gig which featured original drummer MICK POINTER, who would disappear afterwards for many years before finally returning with ARENA with Pendragon's Clive Nolan, one of the most sucessful Neo bands of the late 90's and now. He would be replaced eventually by Ian Mosley, who still mans the drum kit with Marillion today.***

Bonus features include extra versions of an even earler 'He Knows You Know' and 'Market Square Heroes' shot live at the Marquee in 1982, as well as a Fish interview from that era. The only disappointment could be that the Fish interview is rather brief and that there is no current interviews with Fish, Pointer, and the remaining current members giving insights and accounts of that show and era. Other than that, this is vintage Marillion well worth checking out.***

 

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