“The other morning in bed, my partner, Will asked me if I could name the eleven studio albums Marillion had made since Fish, their former lead singer, had left the group in September 1988.
To my surprise I found I could name ten, and when prompted with the initials, H. I. E, I could get last one (Holidays in Eden, of course).
This was not bad going. Three and a half years previously when we had first met all I could have told anyone about Marillion was that they were a Scottish rock group and their biggest hit was Kayleigh....”