Steve Hogarth, who has fronted the band since 1989, after Fish left, a true showman he had great banter with crowd, chatting after almost every song.He told the story of seeing Deep Purple in the City Hall and realised that’s what he wanted to do and he does it very well. The crowd loved every minute and you could clearly see the band were touched by the crowds admiration.

The night continued with a selection of songs from some of their older albums, including Somewhere Else, Mad, Afraid of Sunlight, Great Escape, When I Meet God, *Power from Sounds That Can’t Be Made *and finally Sugar Mice, which was the only Fish song.

The final song from the album was Care a truly blissful song performed faultlessly, it was atmospheric, mesmerising and got a well deserved standing ovation. The band came out to huge cheers and applause, they started the evening by performing the new album* An Hour Before It’s Dark* in it’s entirity.Starting with Be Hard On Yourself, Reprogram The Gene, the crowd were really loving this album, next up It’s Only A Kiss, Murder Machines, the songs continued in the same sequence as on the album The Crow And The Nightingale, Hogarth did make a bit of a booboo and had to restart *Sierra Leone *but it didn’t phase him at all, and the crowd were forgiving.

Obviously, I have heard their more common songs but that’s about it, nevertheless it’s a rock band so I was excited and really looking forward to it. For some unexplained reason this is the first time that I have seen Marillion live, and I really didn’t know what to expect from this gig.

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