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LIVE AT CADOGAN HALL

Marillion

Neo-Prog


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3 stars An acoustic concert of Marillion.

Nice music.

Arrangements with unplugged instruments.

If you are an all music listener and specially you like folk rock or folk pop you will find this quite nice.

But me as an old follower, I am still a traditional fan of Marillion and I prefer the old neo prog. of Fish and the new neo prog with SH.

There are prog folk bands and very good ones and they have their fans , there are neo prog bands ,symphonic prog bands.....

Neo prog is the renewal of the symphonic prog with modern additions and modern rock instruments.

I am sure if Yes,Genesis,Pink Floyd,Pendragon etc... performs an acoustic concert songs will sound nice ....so every good prog rock band can do that ...¿Where is the originality?

So if Mariilion is a neo prog band and i like them as a neo prog band and not as a a folk pop or folk rock band of course i will feel a little disappointed with this live work .

I was expecting a concert of them performing a live experience of ther last albums as their last studio albums really were.

So for the folk rock or pop 4 stars ,but for the neo prog 2.

Average 3 stars.

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Posted Monday, March 28, 2011 | Review Permalink
5 stars There's a long history of acoustic concerts in rock and it has become perhaps a bit cliche. Marillion, though, are able to do an acoustic concert that is as fresh as anything you have ever heard. The 5 members have been playing together for many years and it shows. They are as tight as any other band and each member shows an incredible amount of restraint. Hogarth is the highlight here. His vocals are spot on, and he plays a variety of other instruments too. He introduces most of the songs in an incredibly relaxed manner, even joking that the crowd is not asleep after the 'lullaby for grown-ups' It's Not Your Fault. There's a huge variety of instrumentation here, and the arrangements of well known Marillion songs are, at times, better than the originals. Easter has a particularly beautiful arrangement.

It's a tremendous live show, and one that shows the musical diversity of marillion.

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Posted Monday, July 4, 2011 | Review Permalink
Matti
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4 stars Less Is More is the thesis here. This 2-disc concert from London's atmospheric Cadogan Hall shows Marillion performing their songs with completely new arrangements. By the way, all material is from the Hogarth era, if you were wondering. It can be also said straight away that Steve Hiogarth is very central figure here, not only as a singer but as a player too, to a surprising level even. He handles additional keyboards and a dulcimer. He also tends to speak a lot between the songs. So, in short, if you like mr. 'H' - and the calmer, ethereal side of Marillion - you'll have no trouble liking this DVD.

How each viewer/listener reacts to the difference compared to the studio versions is of course very subjective. I noticed I enjoyed some songs much more than I have enjoyed them from the albums. But those were songs that never were among my favourites, such as 'Beautiful', '80 Days' or 'Estonia'. Not to speak of Brave's 'Hard As Love' which is the most radical change, from an edgy rocker to a fragile heartbreaking performance. Tougher is to get strongly moved by a ripped-down version of e.g. 'Out Of This World' which is one of my faves from the Hogarth era.

Probably the emphasis is on their later output (from the late 90's - or This Strange Engine - onwards), which I haven't collected that completely, and therefor there were surprisingly many tracks that were not familiar to me, or which I may have sometimes listened to without getting interested. Sad to say, for example Brave is not much covered. From Seasons End there's 'The Space' (wow!) and 'Easter'. A casual fan may feel disappointed with the set list, but the more likely it is that this concert turns out to be more enjoyable than you expected.

Electric guitar is almost entirely missing. Actually the music very seldom rocks even if the original studio version does so. Sonically it's often close to Post-Rock bands like Tortoise (the use of mallet instruments) or even Sigur Ros. The DVD's don't have bonus materials - I'm not missing at all those dead-boring, overlong documentaries or interviews. The lights design during the whole concert is really beautiful; the most common colour is the red seen on the DVD cover too. It has a Christmas-like warm atmosphere. I recommend this to friends of Hogarth era Marillion with an open mind towards different arrangements.

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Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2011 | Review Permalink

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