| Bospop | Bospop-Weert | Jul 02, 2005 |
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Marillion is a band I’ve probably seen perform about forty times or so. Strangely though I’ve never seen the band play a festival before, that is other than their own annual convention. The Bospop festival guide marked Marillion shows as being solid as a rock. I used to have the same opinion, but the last couple of years the Marillion live experience hasn’t been as solid as it used to be. Most of the ‘new’ songs from the period 1998-2003 that are being played live are simply too straightforward for my personal liking, I do appreciate most of them on the albums, but these songs fail to touch me live. With the 2004 release of ‘Marbles’, probably the second best Marillion album of the Hogarth era, I was pretty curious whether Marillion would be able to impress. Things didn’t start too promising with the horrible “Accidental Man”, but soon after this false start the band pleasantly surprised me with some of the old as well as some of the new songs. The strangest thing was that some of the songs I feel just don’t work in a concert hall perfectly suited this festival, songs like “Between You And Me” and the Marbles single “Don’t Hurt Yourself” for example. The only track that disrupted the solid set was the 1995 single “Beautiful”, which I liked at the time but is definitely too sweet for Bospop. Today’s gig will always be remembered by the lost guitar solo during “Fantastic Place” and the reserved reaction by Rothery, the elated Steve Hogarth climbing to the roof of the stage and the emotional performances of “Man Of A 1000 Faces” and of course “Neverland”, the best song ever written.
(Review & Pics: Geert Oldenmenger) |
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