It took a year (my- a year) but, finally, Marillion achieven thier minute and a half of glory at Spanish tv prime-time in Canal Plus.

A small piece was shown in the tv programme "La Hora Wiki" detailing their successful internet campaign for the album "Marbles". But it took so long to achieve that. One year.

It was a year ago that I interviewed Mark and H during their concert in Madrid. It was great: they were warm, didn't matter how long the interview took, stayed under the abrassive Madrid sun for so long. It was wonderful getting to know them. At one point, I told Mark my sister was flying almos 1000 km from nothern Spain just to see them. He told me: "Is she in Madrid now?". "I think the plane just landed" I replied. "Well, tell her to hurry here!". Thus, my sister and her boyfriend got to meet the band. It was a wonderful feeling followed by an amazing concert.

But then, I had to get that interview on air, and thus all my troubles begun.

At first, I tried "La Hora Wiki" (I edited tons of pieces there) but the programme director at the time, said that the record company could have to pay in order to get the band on air. Then I tried with other network: Localia (I edited all their promotions for four years) but they declined. Also, there was a prospect of a "trends" magazine on Telecinco, but that programme never happened.

I was decided to give up, but then, a friend of mine was becoming a powerhouse inside "La Hora Wiki", given his staus as one of the most important names in the Spanish electro scene. He said "Do you want that intervfiew inside the programme? Let me sell it to them". In the end, it happend. I polished it to make it look really cool and tokk pride in people's reaction towards the piece: "Do Marillion sound like that? Feels great".

Well, if you want to see the interview, here´s the link to the tv programme website:

http://www.plus.es/codigo/television/lahorawiki/seccion.asp?id=409765 - http://www.plus.es/codigo/television/lahorawiki/seccion.asp? id=409765

Tell me what you think.

In the end: everything is possible. Even getting Marillion on tv.

unfortunatly the interview is in spannish, so I have no idea what their tokking about

No tengo idea

a shame, but still

tuxon wrote: No tengo idea

Yeah i ain't got a clue either.

The introduction stinked. Of course they were aware of who Marillion were and they had that crappy way of saying "sorry" to the dumbest part of their audience.

There were three sections of music from their latest album "Marbles": "You Are Gone" (the single that had to be there, after all it peaked to number three) and the more adventurous ones: "Drilling Holes" and "The Damage" Of course, I understand there's a sector of prog classicists (Carakhallo must be one of them) who do not want this music to "progress" but, musically and imaginatevely speaking, "Marbles" BLASTS OFF ANYTHING DONE WITHIN THE REALMS OF "PROG" FOR A LONG, LONG, TIME. Please, do yourself a favour and enjoy tracks like "Drilling Holes", "The Invisible Man" or "Neverland" to enjoy this huge band at his most honest and emotional peak ("The Invisible Man" lasts 15 minutes and "Ocean Cloud" 19 minutes, if you are still using that abnormal criteria - or demand out-of-date instruments - to qualify a song as "good prog").

Funny thing: during the interview, a guy from a prog magazine was giving Pete Trewavas a really hard time just by focusing, question after question, in the album's faithfullness to the true essences of Prog. "I don't car if it is prog or not, just listen to it without thinking that music HAS to be a certain way, and then decide if you enjoy it or not". Agree with Pete. We need bands like Marillion, who push the envelope, instead of dreadful, unimaginative revivalists like the awful Flower King or the "two-albums-being-a-parody-of-ourselves" King Crimson.

Hogarth rules.

Love and rock sinfónico.