Early Stages

Early Stages (Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-1987)
Box set by Marillion
Released 17 November 2008
Recorded various venues, 1982-1987
Genre Progressive rock, neo-progressive rock
Label EMI
Marillion chronology

Happiness Is the Road
(2008)
Early Stages
(2008)
Live from Loreley
(2009)
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Early Stages (Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-1987) is a box set containing six separate live albums by Marillion with their former singer Fish, recorded at various venues in the UK between 1982 and 1987 and released to retail by EMI on 17 November 2008. The packaging was designed by Mark Wilkinson, who had designed all Marillion covers of the 1980s and went on to work with Fish after his departure. A similar box set (containing different performances), titled Curtain Call, was released in 2004, but was only made available via mail order directly from the websites of Marillion and Fish.[2]

The set contains the following recordings:

Track listing

Disc 1

Live at the Mayfair, Glasgow, 13 September 1982

  1. "Garden Party" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 8:19
  2. "The Web" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 10:29
  3. "He Knows You Know" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 5:22
  4. "She Chameleon" (Dick, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas) – 5:39
  5. "Three Boats Down from the Candy" (Dick, Kelly, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 5:19
  6. "Market Square Heroes" (Dick, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:20
  7. "Forgotten Sons" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 10:24

Disc 2

Live at the Marquee, Part 1, 30 December 1982

  1. "Garden Party" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 8:29
  2. "Three Boats Down from the Candy" (Dick, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:49
  3. "Grendel" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 19:54
  4. "Chelsea Monday" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 9:21

Disc 3

Live at the Marquee, Part 2, 30 December 1982

  1. "He Knows You Know" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 8:24
  2. "The Web" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 11:49
  3. "Script for a Jester's Tear" (Dick, Kelly, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 10:20
  4. "Forgotten Sons" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 12:03
  5. "Market Square Heroes" (Dick, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 7:39
  6. "Margaret" (Dick, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas) – 11:15

Disc 4

Live at Reading Festival, 27 August 1983

  1. "Grendel" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 18:07
  2. "Garden Party" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:46
  3. "Script for a Jester's Tear" (Dick, Kelly, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 9:00
  4. "Assassing" (Dick, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas) – 7:45
  5. "Charting the Single" (Dick, Kelly, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 5:22
  6. "Forgotten Sons" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 11:41
  7. "He Knows You Know" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 5:42
  8. "Market Square Heroes" (Dick, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 10:22

Disc 5

Live at Hammersmith Odeon, 14 December 1984

  1. "Assassing" (Dick, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:50
  2. "Garden Party" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:53
  3. "Cinderella Search" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:16
  4. "Punch and Judy" (Dick, Kelly, Mover, Rothery, Trewavas) – 3:30
  5. "Jigsaw" (Dick, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas) – 7:02
  6. "Chelsea Monday" (Dick, Jelliman, Kelly, Minnett, Pointer, Rothery, Trewavas) – 8:13
  7. "Pseudo-silk Kimono" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 2:53
  8. "Kayleigh" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 3:53
  9. "Bitter Suite" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:01
  10. "Heart of Lothian" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 4:24
  11. "Incubus" (Dick, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas) – 9:08
  12. "Fugazi" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 10:32

Disc 6

Live at Wembley Arena, 5 November 1987

  1. "Slainte Mhath" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 5:03
  2. "White Russian" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:01
  3. "Incubus" (Dick, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas) – 8:56
  4. "Sugar Mice" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 7:03
  5. "Fugazi" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 8:15
  6. "Hotel Hobbies" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 4:07
  7. "Warm Wet Circles" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 4:30
  8. "That Time of the Night" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 5:53
  9. "The Last Straw" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 6:13
  10. "Kayleigh" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 4:28
  11. "Lavender" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 2:24
  12. "Bitter Suite" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 8:07
  13. "Heart of Lothian" (Dick, Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, Trewavas) – 3:56

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