“Plus, Fish (the group’s original vocalist) had been driving us all mad by constantly playing Islamic records at top volume, so it was unlike anything I’d ever experienced before or since, to be honest ” he adds. “I just remember there being a druidic stone circle on a hill behind the house that everyone used to go and sit around, and that the two women who ran the place were called Sunshine and Nutkin – that should tell you all you need to know about the place. “It was pretty remote so God knows how the record company found it, although there weren’t that many residential writing places around the country in those days. “Definitely one of the strangest places I’ve ever been too, a cross between a rehearsal studio and a hippy commune,” laughs the 52-year-old, whose new album Sounds That Can’t Be Made – Marillion’s 17th – is released later this month. although the stay at the rural retreat proved to be a lot less productive than anticipated. It was back in the musical mists of 1983 and the then-fledgling prog rockers had decamped to the remote Mountain Studios in Gwynedd to write their second album Fugazi. WITH Marillion’s latest UK tour kicking off in Cardiff this weekend, guitarist Steve Rothery can’t help reminiscing about one of the band’s earliest, and quite possibly strangest, excursions to Wales. Just don’t, as Marillion guitarist Steve Rothery tells Nathan Bevan, mention the band’s strange stay on an ’80s Welsh hippy commune For more than three decades they’ve eschewed fashion to remain one of Britain’s most enduring and best-loved rock acts.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |