Prog rock giants Marillion have announced seven new UK dates in April 2018 on the back of their October show at The Royal Albert Hall, which sold out within four minutes of going on sale, and The London Palladium in November, which also sold out in record time.

Marillion’s music is more than prog, it’s musically-experimental and yet-emotional. Within the genre it has a uniquely soul-baring aspect which sets the band apart and has elicited an almost religiously zealous following. After nearly 40 years, the band has evolved into a vibrant and international musical force, flourishing seemingly outside of fashion and mainstream media exposure. Since their formation, they have had 19 Top 30 singles, four of which made the Top 10.

Their most recent album, F E A R (Fuck Everyone And Run), peaked at #4 in the UK album charts and #1 in the rock chart last year.

Steve Hogarth says: "I have been part of this band now for 27 years and it barely feels like 10. I think we’re as inspired as we ever were, and we’re still enjoying creating together. Luckily our music has remained free to evolve and change without the constraints of a corporate music business which otherwise might have killed us.

“By reinventing the business-model we have maintained a one-to-one relationship with our fans, and that feeling is never more apparent than at the live shows. It’s always a pleasure to share a room with “the family" and exchange the passion on stage with the passion off stage. We’re playing a few places we haven’t visited for a while. Long overdue. Really looking forward to this little outing."

Tour dates:

April
11 - Gateshead, UK - The Sage
13 - Cambridge, UK - Corn Exchange
14 - Birmingham, UK - Symphony Hall
16 - Brighton, UK - Dome
17 - Bristol, UK - Colston Hall
19 - Reading, UK - Hexagon
20 - Liverpool, UK - Philharmonic Hall

Tickets go on sale Friday, September 15th at 10 AM from myticket.co.uk, seetickets.com and venue box offices.

On October 13th, Marillion release an EP via earMusic featuring a live version of their epic “Living In F E A R”.

“‘Living in F E A R’ strangely is a misleading title because that’s a song about ceasing to live in fear,” says singer Steve Hogarth. “It’s a kind of a hippie song about how you can choose to melt your guns as a show of strength, how you can choose to leave your doors unlocked as a show of strength and not weakness. And that we are mirrors: if you go around defensively and that becomes your outlook, you bring on that in the rest of the world. Whereas if you go around with love and the walls are down, people take the walls down, too.”

“Living In F E A R” comes in a limited CD Digipak as well as in a limited and numbered 12” vinyl edition, carrying three additional unreleased live songs: The fifth section of The Leavers, called “One Tonight”, a song about leaving lives and families behind to go on tour and being in a new country - a very personal song for Marillion. The epic “Neverland”, originally from Marbles, and “Dry Land”, originally from Holidays In Eden, complete this EP: two live versions released for the first time outside of the band’s own Racket Records catalogue, serving a precursor of a strictly limited reissue series of the band´s jewels, so far only sold or shared to through their wonderful web shop, starting January 2018.

Says Marillion: “ We are are pleased to announce that we’ve decided to release a single! We thought it might be cool to give F E A R another promotional “bump” as we intend to continue touring our new baby well into 2018. Nothing works so well as a Top 10 chart position so…

“Mike H, our resident genius producer has made a radical remix/edit of “Living In F E A R”, complete with outro taken from our live show at the 2017 Convention.”

Tracklisting:

“Living in F E A R” (edit)
“The Leavers : One Tonight” (Live)
“Neverland” (Live)
“Dry Land” (Live)