45 episodes

Join John 'Mezza' Merrick and Craig Houston for a discussion about the music and the world of Marillion and Fish, including solo albums, offshoots, tribute acts and much more besides.
All opinions expressed are just that...opinions. We would love to hear your views on the music and the podcast. Email us at planetmarzipanpodcast@gmail.com

Planet Marzipan - A Marillion and Fish Podcast Planet Marzipan Podcast - A Marillion and Fish Podcast.

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    • 4.9 • 17 Ratings

Join John 'Mezza' Merrick and Craig Houston for a discussion about the music and the world of Marillion and Fish, including solo albums, offshoots, tribute acts and much more besides.
All opinions expressed are just that...opinions. We would love to hear your views on the music and the podcast. Email us at planetmarzipanpodcast@gmail.com

    44. Planet Marzipan Meets Marko's Marillion Museum

    44. Planet Marzipan Meets Marko's Marillion Museum

    Join Mezza & Craig as they chat to Mark McCormac and Claude Micallef Attard from the Marko's Marillion Museum Facebook page. Mark and Claude tell the PM boys about how the MMM team came together. Hear about the origins of this vast collection of music, memorabilia and much more!

    Talk includes the origins of the boys fandom, some of the rare items in the collection and an exclusive audio clip of the Stone Dome Band (including Fish & Diz Minnitt) from 1980.

    • 1 hr 16 min
    43. Marillion.com - We Rejoice at Being Connected

    43. Marillion.com - We Rejoice at Being Connected

    Craig & Mezza are joined by James Levey & Dave Dobbie to discuss the final album of the deal with Castle Communications, Marillion.com! Chat includes the origins of the album, the trials of mixing the album, a track by track review of the album and talk of the Marillion.com tour.

    Also hear Craigs story of Ron Smallwood - guaranteed to make you smile!

    • 1 hr 26 min
    42. Planet Marzipan Meets Georgina Wistow

    42. Planet Marzipan Meets Georgina Wistow

    The PM team meet Georgina Wistow - aka the Port Zelande Merch Queen and author of the Ian Mosley book "Do I Owe you Money?". In a lively chat listen in as George tells us about how Marillion have made a huge impact on her life, meeting her best friend, Marillion Manager, Lucy Jordache, how she came to work for Marillion and her double life ! :-)

    George also tells us which merch ideas worked and which were, erm, less than succesful ! Is your favourite item in the list?

    Does she give away any of Lucy's secrets? Listen in to find out!

    • 1 hr 12 min
    41. P.M. Book Club - A Mirror of Dreams - Andrew Wild and Gregory Spawton

    41. P.M. Book Club - A Mirror of Dreams - Andrew Wild and Gregory Spawton

    Join Mezza & Craig as they chat to Andrew Wild about his new book focussing on the early 80s wave of prog rock and centering around the Marquee club in London - "A Mirror of Dreams - The Progressive Rock Revival 1981 - 1983".

    Gregory Spawton from Kingmaker Publishing (and Big Big Train) is also on hand to give some first hand tales of the time as well as the story behind the genesis of the book.

    As well as lots of stories from the time the book features some wonderful photos (many previously unseen) of the origins of Marillion, Pallas, I.Q. , Twelfth Night, Solstice & Pendragon.

    The book is available to order at Burning Shed https://burningshed.com/andrew-wild_a-mirror-of-dreams_book

    Neil Cockles band, referred to in this episode, is The Mighty Bard. https://themightybard.bandcamp.com

    • 1 hr 2 min
    40. Planet Marzipan on the Road - 24 Hours in Leicester with StillMarillion

    40. Planet Marzipan on the Road - 24 Hours in Leicester with StillMarillion

    Join Mezza, Andrew Barnsley Wood, Mark Owens, Vicky Dudman & Nathan Page as they tell Craig all about the weekend he missed, watching StillMarillion play 2 gigs in one day at the Y Theatre - One h era, and one Fish era. Barnsley & Vicky also caught Splintering Heart live the night before at the Musician, in Leicester.

    The first 30 minutes include soundcheck and interviews with Mark Mitchell and Martin Jakubski from StillMarillion. From 30 minutes in a roundtable discussion of the weekend and the setlists of all 3 gigs are reviewed.



    Email us at Planetmarzipanpodcast@gmail.com



    Photo credits - Gary Kirrage, Tracy Kirrage, Mike Barton, Chris Hobbs, Andrew Latham and Robert Stuart-Jack.

    • 1 hr 21 min
    39. Planet Marzipan Meets The Web UK's Anne Bond

    39. Planet Marzipan Meets The Web UK's Anne Bond

    Join Craig & Mezza as they chat to the Web UK's Anne Bond. Chat includes Annes stories about first hearing the band, meeting her husband to be through a Marillion link, Web UK tales and how she ended up on a Marillion CD!



    Join The Web UK via this link https://www.marillion.com/shop/merch/webuk.htm

    • 49 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

Kevin gladok ,

Propa podcast

Right Proppa podcast by proppa people who like proppafood

david241160 ,

Great Podcast

Great listen by people who clearly hold the band with great affection,like most of us do. A fun and informative listen.

Michael_1994A ,

Episode with interviewing the band’s manager

Cracking in one word. Marillion are a great band still making amazing emotional music; they’re fabulous live with a worldwide following of caring fans which all equates to a wonderful vibe. Long may it continue.

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