Marillion Videos

Marillion has, officially, released the following material on VHS video:

Recital of the Script (198?)

Grendel/The Web ep (198?)

1982-1986 The Videos (1986)

Live at Loreley (198?)

Sugar Mice/Incommunicado (198?)

From Stoke Row to Ipanema (1990)

Six of one half a dozen the others (199?)

Brave (1994)

Compilation:

Live at Loreley video plus CD package (1995)

The contents are basically all of Script for a Jester's Tear, without The Web but plus Market Square Heroes.

There is a really good feeling on this video, although the picture direction is a bit boring for today's standards.

The "b-side" to this ep is Grendel.

The video is nowadays hard to get, but still worth the while.

Track listing as follows:

• Market Square Heroes
  • Directed by Derek Burbidge
  • This video contains a different, simpler mix of the song MSH.
  • The plot.. well, there isn't much of it. According to Fish, who introduces the video, it was shot during a live show somewhere that i've forgotten, and they used slow-motion to fit as much of everything as possible in it :)
  • Useless trivia fact: They changed the word "antichrist" to "battle priest" -- "The things we do to get on prime time TV.." (Fish)
  • Song only released as a single and on the B'sides Themselves compilation.
• He Knows you Know
  • Directed by Simon Milne
  • This is a truly excellent video with a lot of psychedelic (psychotic?) and flipped-out things.
  • Basically tells about a nine-to-five-worker who's under a lot of emotional pressure. Then it goes on to display the pictures "inside his head" of how he feels and how his feelings are torturing him. Not that positive, but otherwise one of the best ones on this compilation.
  • The song was released on Script for a Jester's Tear
• Garden Party
  • Directed by Simon Milne
  • Another great Simon Milne video. Must be the most amusing video they've made.
  • The video displays four young rascals who do their best in sabotaging an english garden party.
  • Useless trivia: Fish isn't fucking, he's hiding.
  • More trivia: This is the only video appearance by the short-term drummer.. eh, just forgot the name. Damn!
  • Song originally on Script
• Assassing
  • Directed by Simon Milne
  • Now this is a truly sucky video. Let's say, it's the sort of video that makes me happy that they at least make good music.
  • Obviously Simon Milne had a new video effects mixer, not enough time and certainly not enough money.
  • Basically, this video only plays around with the 1984 standars of high-tech video gidgetry.
  • Simply not worth it. Don't make MTV-requests for this song -- it would really not put Marillion into it's worthy light.
  • The song, which is very good, originally appeared on Fugazi and was re-released on the Six of one compilation with another mix (possibly the 12" mix).
• Kayleigh
  • Director: Clive Richardson
  • This is a beatiful one. Though not thick on the story, it displays deep emotions with the separation from both Fish's beloved girlfriend (wife?) and his childhood.
  • Trivia fact: The woman who played Kayleigh in the video later became Fish's wife. Her name is Tamara.
• Lavender Blue
  • Again, directed by Clive Richardson
  • This video has no story at all, just displays a fake live setting with the band playing in what seems to be a Hollywood-castle interior. Flashing lights and smoke. Amazingly, this all works very well, and the video really is a surprisingly beatiful thingie.
  • Although indexed as Lavender, this is really Lavender Blue, which is the single version of Lavender. LB has an extra verse

    Lavender dreams, dilly-dilly, lavender's true

    When you miss me, dilly-dilly, I will miss you

    A penny for your thoughts my dear...

    and an extended guitar solo. Very beautiful.
  • This was the first appearance by the dreaded kilt -Fish
  • Lavender exists on Misplaced Childhood. Lavender Blue was released as a single from that album, and re-released on Six of One
• Heart of Lothian
  • Director: Francis Megahy
  • Nothing much of a video, but it has a really good mood to it.
  • Storyline: All guys, apart from Fish guys drive a car to a pub, where the band's to play that evening. Fish is hitch-hiking, late, and just can't seem to get a ride. The club owner, expecting five, not four musicans, throws the incomplete band out of the pub. Eventually Fish arrives in a rather fancy car, and the show is on again. Wow. What drama, what suspense.
  • Heart of Lothian can be found on Misplaced Childhood
• Lady Nina
  • Creative director (it says so! -llaurén): Julian Caidan
  • Two storylines. One: The guys in the studio, recording Lady Nina. Two: Fish in a pub, ends up in the home of Lady Nina (who's not a prostitute but a barmaid. -L) not making out with her. Wow. More drama.
  • The song was released as a single in USA and as a b-side of one of the Misplaced Childhood singles in the rest of the world, thus logically appearing on B'sides Themselves.

Total running time a measily 35 minutes.

Live at Loreley

I've seen this video only twice, but i remember that there's excellent musicanship here, and they play all sorts of things from the Marillion/Fish era.

If there's somebody out there who would like to write a review on this video, please help me out!

The Live at Loreley video was also released on video disc and in February 1995 as a video plus CD package.

From Stoke Row to Ipanema

Warning!
There are two versions of Brave, the Brittish version and the non-Brittish. The Brittish one has some of the scenes where tits or drugs are displayed cut, while the non-Brittish version in left untampered.

The non-Brittish version might be the same as the German version (somebody fill me in!), and the German version might have sub-titles on the spoken parts.

(1994)