Planet Marzipan - A Marillion and Fish Podcast

Join Craig & Mezza as they interview Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri and look back on their collective work as a duo. James Levey, Paul McMillan, Gary Page & Nathan Page are on hand to provide additional questions and insights.
Chat includes the origins of the "Not the weapon, but the hand" album, the proposed tour, writing and composition processes, the H Band, Richards memories of Japan and details about his forthcoming album "Hauntings". For more info, or to pre order visit https://burningshed.com/store/richardbarbieri

The Planet Music guys are back to take a look at the recently relaunched "Headphone Dust" website/webstore featuring high resolution, Atmos and surround mixes of Steven Wilson's (and related) albums.
Patrick Cleasby, joins the guys for a discussion that includes the age old "physical vs download" dilemma, the technical challenges of playing different formats, the releases themselves - including an exclusive live album - and lots more besides.

Mezza & Craig are joined by Nathan Page, James Levey, Paul McMillan & Gary Page to take a deep dive into the 3 releases by Steve Hogarth (Marillion) & Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree / Japan) - "Not The Weapon, But The Hand", "Arc-Light" and "Waiting to be Born".
Chat includes the origins of this partnership, the writing process, proposed tour and track by track reviews - the episode concludes with Planet Marzipan listener comments on the Hogarth/Barbieri project.
Part 2 - coming next week - features an interview with Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri - looking back on their work together.

Mezza & Craig are joined by James Levey to discuss the Marillion Front Row Club - which has just launched its Digital Version on Marillion.com & Bandcamp.
Chat includes the original FRC and its original format - T-shirts, opt in titles and the phoenix like rebirth via the Digital Front Row Club. James tells the story of its return and talks about the initial releases as well as giving a sneak preview of upcoming titles.
Keep listening right to the end of the episode to hear a live track from each of the first 2 releases.
For more info on the Digital Front Row Club visit
https://www.marillion.com/shop/search.php?s=alldownloads

The PM guys welcome back Darren Moore and Neil McCrystal to conclude their review of Frankie Goes To Hollywoods' debut album - Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Part two features a track by track review of the second disc of the 2 LP configuration of this 80's classic album and takes a look to its legacy. The episode concludes with Planet Music listeners comments taken from the Planet Music facebook group.
The team are back in 2 weeks with a new episode.