Following the multi-platinum success of Marillion’s concept album Misplaced Childhood, the British quintet returned in 1987 with their fourth studio album, Clutching at Straws. The album peaked at #2 on the U.K. charts, where it scored Top 40 hits with “Incommunicado,” “Sugar Mice,” and “Warm Wet Circles.” Considered by many to be one of the neo-prog rocker’s finest, Clutching At Straws would also turn out to be Marillion’s final studio release with original singer Fish.

This collection opens with the 2018 version of Clutching At Straws that was remixed by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh. The set also includes a concert recording of Marillon performing in Scotland at the Edinburgh Playhouse in December 1987 during the group’s final tour of Fish-era. It was mixed by Michael Hunter.

Some of the performances first appeared in 1988 on the live album, The Thieving Magpie. In concert, the band plays songs that span its entire career up to that point with “Garden Party” from its 1983 debut Script for a Jester’s Tear; “Punch and Judy” from Fugazi (1984); “Kayleigh” from Misplaced Childhood (1985); and “Warm Wet Circles” from Clutching at Straws.

Clutching At Straws (2018 Andy Bradfield & Avril Mackintosh Re-Mix)

Side One

Hotel Hobbies
Warm Wet Circles
That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)

Side Two

Going Under (track only included on original CD version)
Just for the Record
White Russian

Side Three

Incommunicado
Torch Song
Slàinte Mhath

Side Four

Sugar Mice
The Last Straw
Happy Ending

Live at the Edinburgh Playhouse (19/12/1987) (2018 Michael Hunter Remix)

Side Five

La Gazza Ladra
Slàinte Mhath
Assassing
White Russian (Previously released on Thieving Magpie)

Side Six

Incubus
Sugar Mice

Side Seven

Fugazi

Side Eight

Hotel Hobbies
Warm Wet Circles
That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)

Side Nine

Pseudo Silk Kimono (instrumental)
Kayleigh
Lavender
Bitter Suite
Heart of Lothian

Side Ten

The Last Straw
Incommunicado (Previously released on Thieving Magpie)
Garden Party

Format

Boxset

Record Label

Parlophone

Size

12” Vinyl Records

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