Waiting To Happen

It was their second album with vocalist Steve Hogarth, but Marillion’s Holidays In Eden was far from an easy ride. Originally released in 1991 and recently reissued as a deluxe package, the band’s sixth studio release found them struggling to replicate the commercial success they’d enjoyed in the 80s without compromising themselves artistically. Hogarth, Mark Kelly and Pete Trewavas look back on the challenges of creating their ‘pop’ album.

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“It was the difficult second album all over again.”Mark Kelly The tipping point for Marillion came with ‘Mexican Night’. It was late summer in 1990, and the band had spent several increasingly frustrating weeks holed up in Stanbridge Farm Studios, a residential facility outside the English seaside resort of Brighton, attempting to write their second album with new singer Steve ‘H’ Hogarth. The breezy mood surrounding the band as they entered Stanbridge had evaporated as the weeks dragged on. Marillion’s unhurried, jam-based approach to songwriting clashed with Hogarth’s more traditional modus operandi. Tensions were rising, and the atmosphere was getting fractious. “No one hit anyone else, but we did have a few words,” says bassist Pete Trewavas. “Steve was getting pissed off: ‘What’s the point of me being here?’ I suppose he was…

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