Marillion – Misplaced Childhood Tour – 1985/6

January 29th 1986 – De Montfort Hall

This concert was due on September 29th 1985 (ticket date) but was cancelled due to Fish (the lead singer) having laryngitis.

Marillion were now a force to be reckoned with and producing some fantastic music.

Their latest album, Misplaced Childhood was being toured and had what have turned out to be classic rock songs, bordering on pop classics!

Lavender and particularly Kayleigh are regualarly heard on the radio, even now in 2019. I was tempted not to add the review of the time as it truly is a piece badly written by a journalist showing a dislike for the band. The concert, I think he concedes, was superb, but the sarcastic undertone shows why he is a local media journo!

Sure there are songs reminiscent of early Genesis, but there are also far more showing the progression this band has made to carve out a place in the music industry different from others.

I don’t know about the band changing, but the crowd would agree, definitely time for sad journos to move on.

I can only assume, Fish gave short shrift to this idiot and he thought he would try and be clever. Any which way another great Marillion performance with classics like Script for a Jester’s Tear and Forgotten Sons mixed in with the new material. All went down a storm.

The critics never really warmed to Marillion and quite probably it was more about Fish’s ambivalence to the media, but as a live band they were tight and very professional prog-rock band with melodic pop songs to boot and attracted a fiercely loyal following.

I don’t remember who the support act was, but it could well have been Pendragon again……

Set List

• The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)La gazza ladra
• (Gioachino Rossini song)
• Emerald Lies (intro only)
• Script for a Jester’s Tear
• Incubus
• Jigsaw
• The Web
• Pseudo Silk Kimono
• Kayleigh
• Lavender
• Bitter Suite
• Heart of Lothian
• Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
• Lords of the Backstage
• Blind Curve
• Childhood’s End?
• White Feather
• Encore: Giz a Bun (Fish song), Fugazi, Punch and Judy, Market Square Heroes

• The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)La gazza ladra
• (Gioachino Rossini song)
• Script for a Jester’s Tear
• Chelsea Monday
• The Web
• Pseudo Silk Kimono
• Kayleigh
• Lavender
• Bitter Suite
• Heart of Lothian
• Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
• Lords of the Backstage
• Blind Curve
• Childhood’s End?
• White Feather
• Encore: Forgotten Sons