UK ROCK LEGENDS MARILLION RELEASE NEW CD, TOUR THE US
New York City: Twenty-one years after the release of their first album
Script For A Jester’s Tear, MARILLION prepare release of their thirteenth studio
album, Marbles. Set for US release on October 5, 2004, Marbles is packed full
of atmospheric and stirring songs. Intense, deep-seated and musically
rewarding, the CD had a pan-European release May 3 via their own label Intact Records,
with international distribution and licensing handled by Absolute worldwide.
The album's single, ‘You’re Gone,’ charted at position #7 in the UK (the week
’s second highest entry) and at position #8 in Holland, earning the band a
slot on Top Of The Pops. The airplay on the single ‘You’re Gone’ has been
phenomenal from all areas of the press throughout Europe.
MARILLION have a unique relationship with their fans. In 1997 the fans
learnt via an email newsletter that, due to lack of record company support, the
band could not afford to fund a US tour. One of the fans instigated a whip-round
and raised $60,000 enabling the tour to take place. The release of the album
Marillion.com in 1999 flagged their newly launched web-site (and record
label) and this online source of information became an open conduit between band
and fans.
At that point the band decided to adopt a completely new approach to the way
their albums were funded and their twelfth album Anoraknophobia hit the
headlines in 2001 when more than 12,000 fans pre-ordered and paid for, the record
twelve months before it was released. A similar campaign has been launched to
fund Marbles with 13,000 fans ordering the record in advance, but this time all
the money raised is going into a campaign fund to promote the album.
MARILLION have sold more than fourteen million records worldwide. Their
thirteen studio albums (four with Fish as lead singer '82-88; 9 with Steve
Hogarth) have hit worldwide charts continuously: eight UK Top 10 albums, nineteen UK
Top 40 singles. They have performed over 1100 shows to well over 2 million
people and are currently working on a 43-date worldwide tour that commenced May
2004 and will find the band playing to audiences in England, Ireland, Germany,
France, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy, Poland, Switzerland,
Mexico, and ending with dates in the US and Canada.
Marbles will be released via Dead Ringer Records. Distribution throughout
the United States is handled exclusively by Caroline Distribution; PHD Canada
for the northern territories and various distributors throughout Mexico.
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