August 2010: Fish has confirmed that the Fishheads Club will be in residence at St Mary's Church Haddington on Saturday the 23rd October. There is an option for another show on the Friday but that will depend on the level of interest. Saturday tickets are available now. If you'd like to attend a Friday show as well, please use the "Enter any special delivery instructions:" box in the Shipping And Handling section of the Shop checkout page when you order. If you could put something like "Friday 3 tickets" then Elspeth will keep a list. This doesn't put you under any obligation to buy them, should the gig go ahead! If you're not ordering tickets for the Saturday gig but could go to a Friday gig, or you've already bought your tickets, please send Elspeth an email. Thanks!
July 2010: Fish is mentioned in The Guardian newspaper and the East Lothian Courier.
July 2010: Fish appeared on "Beechgrove Garden" on Wednesday 14th July 2010 on BBC One Scotland. He was also interviewed on "MacAulay and Co" on July 13th on BBC Radio Scotland.
June 2010: On June 11th, Fish auditioned for a new series being made by HBO.
April 2010: Fish took part in a 96 mile charity walk along the West Highland way for six days commencing Saturday 22nd of May. This was organised by the guys at "Another Way Around" and there are "Just Giving" pages where you can donate directly. All money collected goes to cancer research and CHAS - more details about the walk are on the "Another Way Around" web site news page.
April 2010: The Planet Rock "win a pub crawl with Fish" competition has now closed.
April 2010: Fish has been in the newspapers again, first in the Scotsman with the news that he'll be appearing in "Electric Man" and also in the Daily Record (Sunday Mail) with the annoucement of his divorce.
April 2010: Fish is taking part in another movie in September. It's an independently made Scottish film called "Electric Man" and he has been asked to play the villain! You can find out more about the film and the background to the production at Strange Boat.
He also took part in"The Government Inspector" with the Theatre Alba Adult Leisure group over the weekend of 22nd/23rd/24th April at the Netherbow (Scottish Storytelling Centre) in Edinburgh.
December 2009: We now have a new Shop design! If you've visited our Shop recently, you might have to refresh/reload the pages to see it properly because your browser could have cached the pages and images. If you have any issues with the software, please please email a description of the problem and we'll try to resolve it. Thanks!
November 2009: Fish was involved in the opening of the new community radio station East Coast FM. The station is broadcasting on 87.7 FM and also via their web site. Fish hosted a programme called "Fish Head Curry" on 2 Monday nights between 8 and 10pm (UK). Due to voice problems, Fish has reluctantly cancelled the last 2 shows that were planned.
November 2009: The NEARFest DVD is available now.
November 2009: Mark Wilkinson's long anticipated book 'Shadowplay' features his artwork for Fish and Marillion as well as the best of his art over a thirty year career for bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, The Darkness, Bon Jovi and many other bands, as well as for the Judge Dredd comic and Red Dwarf TV series. There are some sample pages on his web site. He received some early copies of the hardback version recently, just in time for a trip to Switzerland to promote the book and also to send a review copy to Classic Rock, and the first reviews are 'stunning'. So if anyone is thinking of a special Christmas present this year, please contact Mark by email.
Hardback edition: £30 plus p&p
Also available is a highly collectible signed and numbered 'Black Box' edition, bound in black cloth inside a slipcase together with a portfolio holding 2 signed Giclée prints exclusive to this edition. Strictly limited to 500 copies. Price - £90 plus p&p
Mark takes delivery of the books on November 19th and hopes to begin shipping them soon after.
October 2009: The Fish office will now only be open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 10am and 2pm. Merchandise orders can be placed at any time but will only be processed on these days.
September 2009: Fish wrote:
I was proud to be the recipient recently of a "Friars Heroes Award" from Mike O Connor at the Friars Aylesbury Website in recognition of my many appearances at the club in the '80s with Marillion.
I was quite surprised after all these years but with the resurgence of "Hobble on the Cobbles" and a vibrant Aylesbury music scene there is renewed interest in the Friars legacy, which is immense and well worthy of celebration as one of the most important live music clubs in the UK.
To be recognised as a major part of that history is a profound honour.
Most of you are well aware of the famous shows we performed there in the early days of the bands history and our glorious returns to the hallowed hall throughout the years of our success. They have been well documented in band biographies.
Although I played in Aylesbury Civic a few times as a solo artist the Friars club itself had closed and the Civic itself now is a building site with the new Civic being built in another location.
The club has a fascinating history for Marillion fans as well as followers of the history of the UK music scene through the '70s and '80s.
Mike has put together a comprehensive compendium of Friar's lore with reviews, photos and paraphernalia from throughout the clubs history and has interviewed many bands and characters involved with the club which you can find on the web site.
There will soon be an interviews available that he conducted with both myself and other members of the band about our memories from those early days.
It's a pity we all received our awards by post as it could have been a great excuse for a party! :-D
I just want to say a huge sincere thanks to Mike and all the people involved in the Friars website for the award and to congratulate them on a great job giving the club and it's founder and mentor, David Stopps, the recognition they deserve.
Fish
PS. Aylesbury Civic is soon to be a building site as it is now due to close next summer. The new theatre is well underway though (across the road)
We have always strived to keep our costs on postage and packaging to a minimum and apart from passing on rises in postage prices our packaging charges have been frozen for over two years. The last change to the postal prices also brought in a structure relating to sizes of packages and although we have tried to accommodate this we have discovered our packaging prices have risen and are outstripping our charges. Together with the rise in additional office costs relative to the mail order operation I regretfully have to announce that from Friday 25th September we will have to add a nominal 40 pence an order which is identified as a "handling charge" when you place an order. I hope you will find that the recent price reductions on the merchandise available from Chocolate Frog Records will more than accommodate the necessary rise in P and P charges from the mail order operation.
Thanks for all your support,
sincerely
Fish
September 2009: Fish now has an official Twitter profile. This will probably not be updated but has been added due to the recent impersonation attempt.
August 2009: There is a new "Things you always wanted to ask Fish" section on the forum. Fish has already answered several of them - add your question!
August 2009: There is a review of the convention on the Leamington Courier web site.
August 2009: Annie Othen interviewed Fish for BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on Friday 7th August 2009. This will be available via the BBC iPlayer for a short time.
August 2009: The gig at Crathes Castle in Banchory on Friday 14th August was cancelled by the promoter due to poor sales.
August 2009: A live report from the Convention was available on the Company Poland site from Friday.
August 2009: Fish was interviewed live on Nicky Horne's Planet Rock show on Sunday 2nd August at just after 9pm.
July 2009: The East Lothian Courier has featured an article about Fish. This mentions his plans for writing a book, as well as his recent marriage.
June 2009: We are delighted to announce that Fish and Katie are married! I'm sure you'll join with us in wishing them all the very best for their future together. Some photos of their wedding are available now.
May 2009: Fish is now a Classic Rock Society patron along with Rick Wakeman, Carl Palmer, John Wetton, Dave Greenslade, Rod Argent and Steve Hackett.
April 2009: 3 new Marillion remasters are available now.
March 2009: Fish now has an official profile on FaceBook. You'll have to be a FaceBook member to join the list of fans.
December 2008: The Fish forum has moved! Existing members of the old forum can find their unique temporary password for the new one by logging in and checking their private messages for one with the subject line of "Your new The Union password". You will need this when you first try to log into the new place; if you have already been successful then you can ignore it. You should change this temporary password as soon as you can - details about how to do this can be found in "Feedback, Q&A, general forum stuff".
We'll leave the old forum open for a bit longer while people continue to move across, but you won't be able to view or post to any topics there because they've been transferred.
If anyone is still having trouble logging in, please send an email and we'll try to sort it out for you. Make sure you tell us your forum user name, which web browser you are using and any details about the problem.
Come along and join us, we hope you like our new building!
November 2008: 'Fish On Friday' returned to Planet Rock! On Sunday 2nd November at 7pm there was a two hour show of highlghts from last year's series, then on 7th November at 6pm 'Fish On Friday' was back for a new series of 2 hour shows. Listen online at the Planet Rock web site, on DAB digital radio, Sky Channel 0110, Cable TV Channel 924, Freesat Channel 730 or, if you have a mobile phone that is compatible or an Internet Radio that streams WMA files, you can find info that you'll need to listen via other devices.
November 2008: On the 21st of October 2008, "Zoe 25" was at #26 in the Top 50 Indie Singles.
November 2008: On November 1st, Fish sponsored a game at Pontardawe football club. He was the match day sponsor of the home Welsh League game against Cwmbran Town. Pontardawe won 6-0!
September 2008: Marillion: "The Early Stages" - Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-1987 is a 6 CD box set containing archive material of Fish's performances with Marillion and taken from licensed BBC recordings, Radio Clyde and the EMI archive. The CDs are all individually packaged in a specially designed box set with new artwork commissioned from Mark Wilkinson and containing extensive sleeve notes written by Fish.
Exclusive offer! The Company and Racket Records have teamed up to bring you a bonus: an extra-special A4 print of the box set cover artwork signed by Fish, Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, and Ian Mosley, free of charge (while stocks last) as a thank you for supporting us!
September 2008: During the week ending September 20th, the Daily Mail newspaper gave away an album every day for 12 days. Misplaced Childhood was free on the 19th September.
August 15th 2008: Fish wrote: "Dear all,
I'm sad to say that I have to announce that I have decided to call it a day on Fish TV. It was a great idea but costs of creating the programmes were greater than the income from subscriptions and with so much stuff available on YouTube and the like, difficult to attract people to sign up.
I still have a lot of material which I hope to incorporate into the remasters as a bonus DVD with accompanying interviews etc. That's something I am looking into at the end of the year.
Just to say thanks to Andy and Jeff and all the guys at AVP for putting all the work in over the last year. We gave it a good try but in the end we all had to agree that financially it wasn't making sense.
Thanks to all of you who subscribed and hope you had some fun watching the clips and interviews!
As you have probably read they are no longer taking subscriptions and anyone who has already subscribed will be refunded in full (payments made during August) by the suppliers.
Again thanks for watching.
All the best
Onkel Fish xx"
August 2008: The new bass player is Gavin Dickie, who appeared with Fish in Poland in 1995 and plays regularly with Frank in the Border Boogie Band.
July 2008: '13th Star' dDouble vinyl gatefold including reworked artwork (both Dark Star and Angel/Boat designs in different versions) and specially redesigned labels. The discs are high quality 180gm vinyl, the track listing is the same as the CD on sides 1-3 with side 4 made up of live material from tour recordings - "Circle Line" from the Rome show 2007 with "Dark Star" and "13th Star" from The Amsterdam Paradiso in March 2008. Mastered by Calum Malcolm, limited edition of 2000.
