STEVE HOGARTH of History
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DS1ST DS1ST 20 DAILY STAR, Tuesday, October 15, 2019 DAILY STAR, Tuesday, October 15, 2019 21 UK great for giving GUITAR HEROES KEEP THEIR DRIVE DUE TO SUPERFANS AIR CHECK HELL CHARITIES have rated the UK seventh in a global NO NEED survey of generosity. ■ TO FRET: The US was in top spot Steve. Inset, with Marillion 10 PAIRS OF MARILLION ahead of Burma. Ireland NOW ‘90 MINS’ came in fifth place out of bandmates AIRLINE passengers in ■ by IAN FLETCHER the 128 countries polled. Steve Rothery Manchester face the longest worst of the smaller and Pete TICKETS UP FOR GRABS average security queue airports. Trewavas waiting times in the UK. Rory Boland, Which? Green light THE Daily Star has 10 pairs of b) Phillips c) Lloyd door of the venue and Which? found Travel Editor, said: “Never- tickets to give away to the Email your answer, along with winners must bring a copy of Manchester waiting times ending queues through se- for homes Marillion With Friends From your name, address, mobile email confirming they have averaged 16 minutes per curity are a pain, but if you The Orchestra Live tour. number and venue and date won along with ID to collect passenger but one holiday- are left waiting for hours on LIVING near green spaces To be in with a chance of of the gig you’d like to attend on night. maker reported queuing for end you could find your such as parks, allotments, winning, answer this: (see marillion.com/tour for Competition closes at up to 90 minutes. flight has left without you. golf courses and playing The actress who played info), to nadine.linge@ midnight on October 17. It is closely followed by “Airlines will rarely delay a fields can boost the price of Kayleigh in Car Share is reachplc.com. Normal Daily Star rules apply. Stansted and Luton while flight due to long queues at a property by £2,500 on called Sian...? a) Gibson Tickets will be left on the Editor’s decision is final. Belfast International is the security.” MISERY: Queues average, the Office for National Statistics found. PIECE OF HISTORY: ■ Steve with a piece of Donald Campbell’s Bluebird. Above, hit comedy Car Share Was our Kayleigh on Kay’s Car Share? THREE of Marillion’s most recent ternet thing was, we’d better get on it! So happened!” Even so, he’s aware of its sig- songs are more than 15 minutes THE MIKE WARD INTERVIEW we were ahead of the curve, really.” nificance in Marillion’s history. And in long. Marillion also have a part in a piece some ways it’s a tricky one. Played live, you might be looking STEVE HOGARTH of history. Their song Out Of This World, “I wouldn’t quite call it a millstone at close to 20, especially if singer is about Donald Campbell’s fatal around our necks,” he says, “but it does Steve Hogarth bursts into tears MARILLION attempt to break the world water speed pull the focus away from what we’ve be- halfway through. record in 1967. come musically. That’s unfortunate. “That happens all the time,” he chuck- FRONTMAN Diver Bill Smith heard the track and “But then maybe without Kayleigh les. “I’m such a luvvie! was inspired to look for the wreck of his we’d never have had the creative free- “The trouble is, when your emotion happily mingle with fans the whole boat Bluebird in Coniston Water in the dom we’ve had these last 30 years.” swells in your chest to the point where weekend. Whoever wins the regular Lake District. This led to the craft November’s tour and tie-in al- you cry, it becomes impossible to sing.” quiz, for instance, gets to test their being raised in 2001 and it has bum are called Marillion With Not that Marillion’s fans are likely to Marillion knowledge against Steve and since been restored. Friends From The Orchestra mind. First, because “at least they know I co. “They invariably beat us,” he says. Of course, there’s one Live, inset, for which songs mean it”. And, second, because their loy- There’s even a feature called Swap The piece of Marillion music from their back catalogue alty to this band – together now for 40 Band, where a few lucky fans who can that resonates even with are enhanced by horns years and about to embark on yet anoth- play or sing themselves can step up on non-fans and that’s the and strings. er UK tour – is on a scale other acts would stage for one song, while Steve or who- 1985 hit Kayleigh, record- After that, they’ll be surely kill for. ever sits it out. “I don’t know any other ed when Steve’s predeces- back in the studio – a rou- Marillion fans don’t just buy the odd band that does that,” he says. sor Fish was still the singer. tine Steve sounds deeply album and stroll along to gigs. They gath- The roots of this bond go back to the It reached No.2 in the charts. content with. So how, these er in their thousands at regular Marillion mid-90s, when Marillion effectively in- No doubt Steve is tired of days, does he define success? conventions, the biggest being every two vented crowdfunding. being asked about this, but when “Being able to pay the mort- years in Holland. After they’d split from their record la- Kayleigh resurfaced so prominently just gage while being free to do what the hell “Japanese, Mexicans, Americans, bel, donations from die-hard fans meant a couple of years ago, soundtracking the you like,” he says, “that’s the Holy Grail. Brazilians, you name it,” says Steve. “They they could set out on an otherwise unaf- most tearjerking scene of Peter Kay’s hit “You can be a millionaire but so fa- fly in from all over the planet. fordable US tour. comedy Car Share, how huge an impact mous you can’t walk down the street “People even get married there. I It also later financed a number of al- did this have on the band? without being hounded. That’s no way to married one couple myself, dressed as bums. “We learned that they were pre- Steve sounds puzzled. “Did that end live.” a priest!” pared to buy stuff that didn’t even exist up being on Car Share?” he replies. ● Marillion With Friends From The Not only do the band play a different yet. That was their level of faith. “Well, it certainly had no impact on Orchestra Live. For tickets go to show every night at these events, they “We also learnt that, whatever this in- me because I didn’t even know that had marillion.com/tour.