“I’ve always been good at words…”

Breaking up is never easy, but Fish is ready to retire from the music industry to enjoy a different pace of life. After leaving Marillion in 1988, the Scottish singer-songwriter has enjoyed a successful solo career on his own terms. Now, four years after the release of his final solo album, Weltschmerz, he’s packing up the life he knew and is almost ready to say goodbye. Prog caught up with him ahead of his Road To The Isles farewell tour to reflect on his remarkable career.

Philip Wilding

“To say goodbye is to die a little.” That was writer Raymond Chandler from his The Long Good-bye novel. Black as pitch, prescient, occasionally cruel and held a pen the way most assassins wield a knife. Dark outlines, characters set as silhouettes coming in and out of the light. His legacy casts a long shadow and it’s probably no accident that the figure peering out from beneath a rain-lashed umbrella on the cover of 1999’s Raingods With Zippos has something Chandleresque about him, laced with a knowing nod to another author, Douglas Adams, who introduced us to Rob McKenna, the abject, ignorant and thoroughly drenched rain god from Adams’s novel, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish. Say what you like about Fish, but which other singer-songwriter is going…

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