Marillion – Transmission Impossible (3-CD)

• DISC ONE includes a selection of demos and rehearsals going right back to ’79 when the band was still named Silmarillion. When Fish joined the group in 1981, the name was shortened. This set of recordings include the very first rehearsal with Fish on-board, alongside recordings made at The Enid’s studio in 1979 and 1980.
• DISC TWO features Marillion’s performance at Reading Festival in August 1983, a show recorded for live transmission and broadcast simultaneously. Still promoting their debut album, Script For A Jester’s Tear at the time, Marillion played a dynamic 75-minute set that warm afternoon, some 40 years ago now.

Kommer in i början av maj.

• DISC THREE concludes this majestic collection with Marillion’s show in Berlin, on 18th June 1988, just about a month before Fish left the band in July. Featuring a rather strange cover version of Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Twist Again” as the show’s penultimate track, it would appear the band were in high spirits despite being close to breaking up just a few weeks hence.