The singer admits that he was partying hard, partly as a release from the seemingly endless grind. But when things are happening, it’s like a fairground ride.” Maybe we could have been a bit more understanding about that. “If you’re the person everybody wants to talk to, then the demands on your time are so great. “I think Fish probably felt the pressure more than anyone else,” says bassist Peter Trewavas.
I was physically and mentally exhausted a lot of the time.” It’s all fucking singing and dancing, but when you walk outside the tent, it’s scabby animals and shite. “We were squeezing the pips dry on Misplaced.
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“Just when you thought it was coming to an end, there’d be another fucking series of gigs,” says Fish. (Image credit: Press/courtesy of Mark Wilkinson) Certainly, all five members put the root of their problems down to the incessant touring schedule imposed on them by their manager, John Arnison. On most other points, they’re in surprising accordance, albeit with markedly different individual perspectives. The retrospective view of their fourth album is one of the few things the men who made it disagree on – remarkable, given the circumstances that surrounded it and the eventual outcome. But you can also see the fracture lines.” “It’s a very powerful album in that it’s got some of our best work.
“It’s a strange album, Clutching,” says Rothery. “I feel less warm towards that album than I do Misplaced Childhood,” says keyboard player Mark Kelly. It’s very honest, very open, to the point where you go, ‘Fucking hell…’” “ Clutching At Straws is a brilliant album,” says Fish. At the heart of it all was Clutching At Straws – Marillion’s dark masterpiece. Within 18 months, the Fish era had come crashing to an acrimonious end, leaving the wreckage of broken friendships in its wake. Their career wasn’t dashed on the rocks at Loreley, but they were listing badly. There was something fundamentally wrong with how things were.” But whatever the reason, it reached critical mass. You can blame many things, you can point the finger at people who were hanging round and aggravating the problem, whispering in ears. “If you watch the Live From Loreley video, you can see the mood. “Things were very miserable,” says guitarist Steve Rothery today.
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