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Fish will headline the Friday schedule of this year’s NEARFest. The festival will be held June 20th, 21st & 22nd at the Zoellner Arts Center in Bethlehem, PA. Visit the official website for more details.

The official Fish website has announced that “13th Star” will be released “at retail” on February 12th:
The album will be an open-ended slipcase with the Star logo, the CD in a jewel case, Dark Angel on the front cover with 20 page booklet with 3 page pullout for the naked man/boat artwork. There will not [...]

Marillion have announced dates for their Snow-where Else Christmas tour.
We are almost ready to start selling tickets for the Xmas Tour 2007. You will see that we are only playing in the UK, Holland, Germany and France… If we’re not coming to your continent/country/town/city it’s because we’ve had to reluctantly make some tough decisions about [...]

Is this the month for contests, or what? Anyway, here’s one more. Planet Rock is giving away Fish’s new 13th Star album - the deluxe limited edition with Bonus DVD - to one lucky winner. It could be you! Visit this page to enter.

Prog-News.com reminded us not to forget Steve Hogarth’s solo performance in Cervia, Italy this past weekend:
On October 6, Steve Hogarth (Marillion’s singer) did a solo performance in Cervia, Italy in his “H Natural - solo voice and piano” series. This event was extra special because it was simultaneously broadcast in Second Life, allowing his fans [...]

Checkout the blog Where Worlds Collide for an interesting review of Fish’s upcoming release 13th Star.
Fish isn’t the world’s best singer by any means. And nowadays he lacks the range he had in his younger years. He makes up for this with his impassioned and emotional delivery; frustration, anger, sadness and ultimately hope.
You can purchase [...]

Marillion performed with original frontman Fish for the first time in 19 years this past Sunday, August 26th, at the Hobble On The Cobbles event in Aylesbury, England. Fish insists the performance was a one-off and that there won’t be a reunion tour:
(The gig) was just five guys doing a one-off and having a brilliant [...]