Successful, but very quiet live album

Already more than thirty years the British Marillion in the business and have at least published their debut Script For A Jesters Tears and Misplaced Childhood two albums that should be part of every progressive rock collection. On the latter there is also the biggest hit of the band (Kayleigh), the Fish still arose during the collaboration with the former singer. Since 1989, is with Steve Hogarth Now a new behind the mic and since then the fan base is not split. Despite several good publications, mourn many fans of the old line for still.

It probably also the current double live album Live From Cadogan Hall will not change much. However, taken during the Less Is More acoustic tour offers this biplane on CD one the eponymous full-length album and on the second disc some of the best numbers from the Hogarth era, unfortunately, no songs from the time before the line-up changes, which one in principle could classify as gross negligence. More on this later.

Must not lose great words about the musical abilities of the band one. MARILLION are among the most influential bands of the neo-progressive rock in the early eighties. The adaptations of Less Is More tracks into an acoustic garb succeeded. Since MARILLRION have always placed emphasis on atmosphere, also here no wish remains unfulfilled. Songs like This Is The 21st Century or Out Of This World attract the listener inevitably in its spell and unfold on Live From Cadogan Hall a completely different effect than in the normal album. A nice idea to play the album completely. Steve Hogarth It goes wonderfully songs impose his voice, without appearing as a solo artist. The interaction with the audience is consistent and the atmosphere and the event appropriately. So the audience experiences the material of Less Is More in a completely new sound robe.

But what are guilty MARILLION their fans, they know it. So CD includes two ten highlights from the Hogarth era, which were also slightly rearranged and presented acoustically. Titles such as Estonia, Three Minute Boy or This Train Is My Life unfold in the versions used here their effect, so that one can speak of a successful concert experience. What, as mentioned above, however, bothers me is the fact that the most successful years of the band, ie the Fish era, have been left out and it deprives the audience just numbers like Kayleigh or Lavander. At least this song could have stayed on the album I heard personally would have liked more than one or two numbers of scripts For A Jesters Tear. Total Live From Cadogan Hall is a successful but very quiet live document with minimal flaws.