Tribute band Marquee Square Heroes play a two-and-a-half-hour journey through the early Marillion years of singer Fish.
Marquee Square Heroes are playing The Face Bar on Saturday 13 February, bringing a tribute to the Fish-fronted years of Marillion to Reading. They call the show 'Echoes of Halcyon Days', and they've built it around the early era of the band rather than the whole discography. It's a two-and-a-half-hour set that runs through Fish's tenure, drawing on the themes of that period — love, loss, identity and the struggles of a generation — and they describe it as a journey through those years.
The band is led by neo-prog rockers Mark Colton, from Credo, and Andy Faulkner, who's played with Twelfth Night and Jump. They're joined by session musicians who've played on Billboard top-ten records and at US festivals, including contemporaries of Marillion from their Marquee days. The name itself is a nod to the Marquee club on Oxford Street in London, where Marillion spent so much of their early life. PROG Magazine has written about them, and their audiences have included figures from the original Marillion story, like Bush Telfer and Stef Jeffery.
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If you're familiar with the early records, you'll know that era was as much about the lyrics and the storytelling as the music, and that's what they're aiming for here. It's a full evening's worth of material, not just a handful of the well-known tracks, so you'll get a good look at the breadth of that period. The Face Bar is on Ambrose Place, off Chatham Street in the town centre (RG1 7JE). Doors open at 7:30pm, the music starts at 8:00pm, and tickets start from £16.50.
