Warm Wet Circles

Warm Wet Circles is the third single from Marillion's fourth studio album Clutching at Straws, released on 26 October 1987. It peaked at number 22 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's 9th top-thirty hit in a row, and remained on the chart for four weeks. The music video featured footage of the band's concert at Lorelei in West Germany on 18 July 1987. The b-side is a live recording of "White Russian", another track from Clutching at Straws also made during the Loreley concert (see Live from Loreley). The 12" version additionally contains a version of "Incommunicado" from this concert.

The music journalist David Hepworth described the song in Q magazine as "straight barfly melodrama".^[1]

In Argentine, the single was published under the Spanish title "Círculos Húmedos y Cálidos".

A CD replica of the single was also part of a collectors box-set released in July 2000 which contained Marillion's first twelve singles and was re-issued as a 3-CD set in 2009 (see The Singles '82–'88).

Track listing

7" single

Side A

"Wet Warm Circles" (Remix)—04:30

Side B

"White Russian" (Live)—06:14

7" Picture disc

"Wet Warm Circles" (Remix)—04:30

Side B

"White Russian" (Live)—06:14

12" Single/picture disc

Side A

"Wet Warm Circles" (Remix)—04:30

Side B

"White Russian" (Live)—06:14
"Incommunicado" (Live)—05:23

5" CD Single

"Wet Warm Circles" (Remix)—04:30
"White Russian" (Live)—06:14
"Incommunicado" (Live)—05:23

Total Time 15:57

All tracks written by Dick/Rothery/Kelly/Trewavas/Mosley.

Personnel

Fish – vocals
Steve Rothery - guitars
Mark Kelly - keyboards
Pete Trewavas - bass
Ian Mosley - drums
Tessa Niles - backing vocals on "Warm Wet Circles"
Cori Josias - backing vocals on "White Russian" and "Incommunicado"

References

↑ "Q Magazine review of Clutching at Straws". Official Fish website. Retrieved 30 May 2013.

Marillion

Steve Rothery Mark Kelly Pete Trewavas Ian Mosley Steve 'h' Hogarth Mick Pointer Brian Jelliman Doug 'Rastus' Irvine Fish Diz Minnett Andy Ward John 'Martyr' Marter Jonathan Mover

Studio albums	Script for a Jester's Tear Fugazi Misplaced Childhood Clutching at Straws Seasons End Holidays in Eden Brave Afraid of Sunlight This Strange Engine Radiation marillion.com Anoraknophobia Marbles Somewhere Else Happiness Is the Road Less Is More Sounds That Can't Be Made

Compilations	Brief Encounter B'Sides Themselves A Singles Collection The Best of Both Worlds The Best of Marillion The Singles '82–88' The Singles '89-'95

Live albums	Real to Reel The Thieving Magpie Made Again Anorak in the UK Marbles Live Early Stages Live from Loreley Recital of the Script

Singles	"Market Square Heroes" "He Knows You Know" "Garden Party" "Punch and Judy" "Assassing" "Kayleigh" "Lavender" "Heart Of Lothian" "Lady Nina" "Welcome to the Garden Party" "Incommunicado" "Sugar Mice" "Warm Wet Circles" "Freaks (Live)" "Hooks in You" "The Uninvited Guest" "Easter" "Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)" "No One Can" "Dry Land" "Sympathy" "No One Can" (1992) "The Great Escape" "The Hollow Man" "Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury" "Beautiful" "Man of a Thousand Faces" "80 Days" "These Chains" "Between You and Me"/"Map of the World" "You're Gone" "Don't Hurt Yourself" "The Damage" (Live) "See It Like a Baby" "Thankyou Whoever You Are"/"Most Toys" "Carol of the Bells"

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