List of bands and artists influenced by Marillion

there's more Rush and Kansas in Enchant than Marillion.

Bands influenced by Fish's period:

-Violet District,

-Chandelier (a few days ago, I ordered the remaster 2018 of Facing Gravity),

-Clepsydra (and maybe Shakary),

-Arena,

-Collage,

-Asgard,

-Aufklarung.

I'm not sure that this is quite right ... Chappo did not get influenced by Joe Cocker ... and I doubt that FISH was influenced by PG at all ... and like a few other singers leading a band in Europe, it many ways it was more about the ACTING than it was about the singing. PG is given a lot of credit for some of this but others were already doing THEATER within a rock context in Europe that helped bring it all alive.

I think we're making a mess of things ... it's like saying that every actor copied Lawrence Olivier and/or Marlon Brando, and that is simply not true at all, although it seems the material at the time suggests that there is a similarity. I don't see, another great example, that ANGE copied anyone, including bands like GENESIS which probably learned from them how to do some theatrical content on stage ... already in concert Christian Decamps was whispering and doing emotional stuff that was way beyond "singing", and to further things in a couple of his solo albums he takes this even further and makes folks like Fish and PG sound like just another pop singer!

Europe, other than England, has a very large history of "stories" in theater, and mixing them ... and what PG did was nothing new and there are many stories that they learned some of it from OSANNA in Italy during a tour. I doubt that PG or GENESIS would even discuss that, so to be able to maintain a myth of originators of something they did not create, but the fact of the matter is, that they DID CREATE some very nice material with those ideas in mind, and that it worked to an extent, in that we are still stuck discussing it. At least the music is very good to our ears, whereas OSANNA and ANGE are a bit tougher, and mostly because they do not sing in English, as the material itself is excellent.

To see these things properly, a chronology would help ... but to think that PG created something that everyone copied, and Marillion did as well, is kinda sad, and missing the point. Again, think about the actors, the films, the theater ... please allow talent to stand up ... and not kill the arts because of it.

Chandelier the Swiss band? Or maybe they were German.  A long time ago I had an album by theirs on cd called "pure." It definitely sounded influenced by Marillion and I'm not really into clone bands but it was quite good.