Fish

FishVienna (Wien) / Arena Wien / AustriaThursday, 17 October 2024, 8:30 PM – 10:47 PM Fish, the celebrated Scottish singer-songwriter and former frontman of the legendary progressive rock outfit Marillion, is very much a progressive…

Label: Chocolate Frog RecordsRelease date: 8/13/2001Production: Elliot NessAlbum length: 51.42 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Neo-ProgRating: 8.5/10 In 2001, Scottish frontman Fish put out his seventh studio album, »Fellini Days«,…

Label: Fishy Music Ltd.Release date: September 25, 2020Producer: Calum MalcolmAlbum length: 84.30 minGenre: Neo-Progressive Rock / Art RockRating: 9/10 “Weltschmerz” is the long-awaited farewell studio album from the cult Scottish…

After more than two decades, the most revered album in the story of Lucassen's ever-ambitious Ayreon project has finally got a live version, and it's remarkably faithful to the studio original. That's news that's bound to delight most fans…

With "Raingods With Zippos," the Scottish prog rock veteran created one of the shiniest gems of a solo career, and it's still something to be immensely proud of today.

»Sunsets On Empire« may well be the most overlooked achievement of Fish's solo career. Mostly thanks to Wilson's songwriting and production work, it has stood the test of time much better than some of his earlier solo albums.

"Even live, Fish remains indestructible and rock-solid when it comes to delivering his gut-wrenching messages, and he's still a top-notch entertainer too, so we didn't mind at all that the set list that night leaned mostly on his newer…

Even live, Fish remains indestructible and rock-solid when it comes to delivering his gut-wrenching messages, and he's still a top-notch entertainer to boot, so we didn't mind one bit that the setlist leaned mostly on his newer stuff.…

»Suits« lands in the sweet spot of Fish's studio output so far: an exceptionally consistent, high-quality album that still delights today with some seriously fun ideas.

A visibly weary Fish, with only the occasional flash of brilliance, wades through the full range of emotions his longtime fans have always taken for granted on "A Feast Of Consequences", and does it rather listlessly this time. It's far…

With »Internal Exile«, which sadly never brought him the commercial success it deserved, Fish delivered yet another album early in his solo career, one whose powerful, confessional atmosphere always leaves a strong mark on the listener, and…

"Though each of the night's headliners came from a completely different school of rock, every one of them managed to carry the crowd off into a trance that only regular gig-goers know and that's impossible to put into plain words. So by the…

End of July rolled around, and with it came a new edition of the Rock of Ages festival, which has been bringing together fans of classic-flavored rock under one roof since 2006. Day one was headlined by Swedish hard rockers Europe, Irish…

Label: EMI RecordsRelease date: January 29, 1990Production: Jon KellyAlbum length: 50.38 minGenre: Art Rock / Neo-Progressive RockRating: 9.5/10 Scottish vocal oddball Fish (real name Derek William Dick) put out his solo debut not…

»Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors« is a neo prog rock classic that helped Fish establish himself as a successful solo artist right after the split from Marillion.

"I'd call this Fish show very good, not phenomenal like the one in Augsburg, but still more or less in line with what I expected anyway."

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Estragon / Bologna / ItalyConcert date: 11/30/2007Attendance: 100Ticket price: 20.00 € While more than half the population of our ever-less-green little country on the sunny side of the Alps was…

Fish, the charismatic vocal icon of progressive rock who earned his nickname by spending way too much time lounging in the bathtub with a book, hardly needs an introduction for Rockline readers, since a lot has already been written about

Fish's solo career has more than clearly been getting a fresh burst of energy in recent years. After a bunch of more-or-less average albums in the '90s, of which "Sunsets On Empire" (1997) and "Raingods With Zip

"I sure hope this was only the beginning of our concert-going and friendship with the "father" of neo-progressive rock: a Scottish giant with a gentle heart and a sharp pen."

Author: Peter Podbrežnik Location: Spectrum / Augsburg / GermanyConcert date: 03.05.2006Attendance: 0Ticket price: 29.00 € Most of our RockLine crew decided that Fish's gig was an event we absolutely could not miss. In this year's…

Derek Dick, better known by his stage name Fish, one of the main culprits and co-authors of Marillion's timeless masterpiece "Misplaced Childhood" (1985), a record that in the eighties firmly crowned a new branch of rock mus