Marillion - BBC Session 1982

This is an excellent Marillion recording from a short BBC session they did in late January 1982, very early in their career.
As bootlegs are just that, bootleg recordings, I've done some restoration work.
The restoration work looks something like this:
WAV (16-48) - EQ - Bass restoration work - Linear phase compression - slight limiter - KZbin.
Enjoy!

[@hermine1714]

A hidden pearl 💎

[@RUDI-UK]

This session has some of Steve Rothery's finest guitar work. That additional solo during Forgotten Sons should have made it to the album. Mark Kelly' steals the show during The Web as well.

[@Themusicmachine79]

Marillion are my actual drug

[@patricestephenmaniquoi5829]

Fish was a special man

[@dondirtcheap2410]

Wow!!! I heard the the late great Tommy Vance do a trailer for this at the time on the radio. He said it was their most requested session ever!!! But Marillion meant nothing to me then, and so I missed it. And then I bought 'Script' and was hooked. A couple of things strike me. The versions of 'Three Boats' and 'The Web' here are possibly better than the ones they eventually recorded. And I never really knew why the band sacked Mick Pointer until now.

[@MOOGTRONMANIC]

totaly agreed!! heavier and better versions!! i still have my cassette from 1982, when i recorded it from the FRS.

[@fritzwillems8589]

Forgotten sons ... wie genial, das ist kein Song, das ist ein Gebet, welches man sich heute wie damals anhören kann. Es wird immer aktuell bleiben. Fish ist ein unglaublicher Songschreiber, bis heute! Er schreibt die besten Geschichten, die einem ans Herz gehen. Fish for ever!😻👍

[@paulwheeldon3075]

This must’ve been recorded for the Tommy Vance Friday Rock Show on Radio 1, I presume. Feels like a different lifetime....

[@MothershipOracle]

it was indeed!

[@trexusvex1110]

What a great versions! It seems to be something new from Marillion with Fish after so many years. Thanks for sharing it...

[@juliasdinjaya807]

I'm still here to hear marillion

[@moonray2888]

J'aime Marillion depuis ''misplaced childrood'' et n'avais jamais entendu ces sessions. Merci pour le partage.

[@xof2484]

Cela sera ma dose quotidienne de Marillion. Merci pour cette proposition. Du coup c'était si je ne m'abuse Mick Pointer à la batterie.

[@BeaujolaisDay]

Line-up: Mick Pointer - drums (band founder with bassist Doug Irvine 1978 - Silmarillion), Steve Rothery - lead guitar (joined Silmarillion August 1979), Fish - vocals, Diz Minnitt - bass (Fish and Diz joined January 1981), Mark Kelly (joined November 1981 successor of Brian Jelleymann who had joined in October 1979). So it's a wrong band photo for the recording. Pete Trevawas was not in the band at that time. There are Marillion promo photos available with Diz Minnitt in the band.

[@medusaplanete]

Talk about a fan!

[@BeaujolaisDay]

Pete Trevawas joined later April 1982 before the tour of Scotland. On the recording you hear Diz Minnitt playing bass.

[@Tom-le7gw]

Sorry to correct you, but jellyman was in the band for longer than you said ( he joined with Rothery in 1979)

[@BeaujolaisDay]

@@Tom-le7gw thank you for your correction I wrote in my comment the wrong year. Brian Jelleyman joined October 1979 a few months later than Steve Rothery. I know Brian ;-) Will correct it in my comment.

[@mathames4679]

@@BeaujolaisDay but to be clear, this is Mark Kelly playing - right?

[@daveyeung]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is awesome!!

[@jaylee7150]

Fantastic!!

[@ProgressiveVinyl]

Listen to the opening of Three Boats Down The Candy to hear where everybody complaining about Fish sounding like Peter Gabriel come from.

[@mathames4679]

they weren't wrong.

[@ProgressiveVinyl]

@@mathames4679 Indeed. :)

[@hectorsmith6680]

@@ProgressiveVinyl ...one Q pls if I may...prior to their first LP release I remember that I have heard Marillion in BBC1 radio show...a rock show that was every Friday between 10pm to 12pm...and then I saw them live in Marquee Club before the release of their first LP...could you kindly remind me the date of that specific gig?...was on the 7 of March 1982 or on December 1982...Thanks a lot...the only thing that I remember is that there was not a supporter group before their appearance...

[@ProgressiveVinyl]

@@hectorsmith6680 Is it this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6Cte2OBpKyCbJY

[@carldavies7418]

@@ProgressiveVinyl surely this is the very same performance only without 3 boats and The Web and Forgotten Sons vice versa and cleaned up a little.

[@shieladixon]

This is excellent. I'm listening back to the Friday Rock Shows that I would have heard first time around. Last night I listened to the show first broadcast 26 Feb '82, when this session was first broadcast. As is often the case, the session recording is very enjoyable but unfortunately the recording we have of that show is very poor quality. I'm so pleased to find a recording of the session that sounds so good. Thank you!

[@ecasastolosana]

Masters!

[@usul2542]

Good to hear Fish at the helm. Interesting variation on the version I’m more used to hearing 👍

[@chrisyoungs414]

Magnificent!!

[@MothershipOracle]

Definately my fav version of forgotten sons, Fish sounds alot more agressive on this session. (the debut album was a bit toned down), - and the 1st slice of marillion for me, -around the same period, "market square heroes" was released as a single, so we all went out and bought the 12", with grendel on the b side. lots of other great prog bands recorded sessions on the FRS- in the early to mid 80's. pendragon/IQ/the enid/solstice/trilogy/hibiscus/the movie stars/as above so below/multi story and more.

[@chrisfranklin8985]

I remember that session from The Movie Stars.... would love to hear it again. Not sure if a quality recording of that Movie Stars session has made it into our Friday Rock Show archive as yet but will definitely check it out.

[@MothershipOracle]

good to hear. 😀 loved one of their's especialy -called "waking up". from 41 yrs ago! 1982. @@chrisfranklin8985

[@rmbull28]

Starting to listen to Marillon again after many years, I'm starting to realise where my radical political seeds were sown.

[@mathames4679]

best Fish vocal performance ever?

[@ProgressiveVinyl]

He's really great here, I agree!

[@BeaujolaisDay]

Yeah he was great here. Check also his performance of Cinderella Search with Marillion in Zürich 1984. From his own words he never reached this range again. It's also here on KZbin.

[@mathames4679]

@@BeaujolaisDay thanks. Will watch!

[@MothershipOracle]

absolutely!! he's on fire on this session.

[@mathames4679]

@@MothershipOracle yep.

[@cracpsd]

set list?

[@franciscofarinha9606]

Been trying to find this but alas. Have checked all bootlegs but can't find any Marillion BBC sessions. Are these 3 songs the ones found on the "Marillion - In Session Tonight" bootleg cd?

[@ProgressiveVinyl]

I don't know actually. I would need a copy of that bootleg to check

[@franciscofarinha9606]

@@ProgressiveVinyl Yeah, precisely. If I had a copy I could tell myself, but it s hard to get one these days.

[@BeaujolaisDay]

Yes it is on this bootleg. But you find the best quality on digital live recording sharing platforms like guitars.101.com. From the BBC Radio master. Not compressed flac format.

[@RicardoSandoval-zi8qr]

Me considero fanático hasta los huesos de marillion pero siendo objetivo, en estas joyas se nota descaradamente la influencia de Genesis.