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| Marillion are more than just 5 guys in a room making music... On this page are some names you may recognise from album credits, and faces of the staff of the Racket Club and Racket Records |
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| Roderick Brunton |
| After the departure of Stewart Every in Late 2001, Marillion found a new studio manager and engineer to begin working on their then-upcoming album Marbles |
| Rod became Front of House engineer in the autumn of 2004, and continues to mix live sound for the band, although he has left his staff position at the Racket Club. |
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| Stewart Every |
| Stewart started out as Marillion's studio assistant engineer and keyboard tech during Afraid of Sunlight. When Privet left the TSE tour in 1997, Stewart took over live sound. |
| Continuing to work in the Racket Club as both engineer and studio manager, Stewart finally gave up his life of rock'n'roll in 2001 and moved to Cornwall with his wife and 2 children. |
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| Chris 'Privet' Hedge |
| Privet was Marillion's front-of-house sound engineer since the early days of the band through to 1997. Many people ask us what happened to him; here is the definitive answer! |
| Privet passed the FOH torch to Stewart Every in the middle of the This Strange Engine tour when he left to join Genesis on what would be their final tour. After this, he went on to work with many band, including Westlife, Mike and the Mechanics, and Gabrielle amongst others. |
| In 2002 Privet returned to the mixing desk for Marillion for a one-off festival appearance, and still pops by the Racket Club from time to time to say hi! |
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| John Helmer |
| When Marillion were looking for a singer in 1988, they were confident they could find a singer, but didn't know if they would also find an accomplished lyric-writer! So EMI put them in touch with lyricist John Helmer. |
| When Steve Hogarth signed on in 1989, he brought with him several songs and lyric ideas, but by that time the band had chosen several Helmer lyrics they also liked. Although the collaboration continued actively through This Strange Engine, Steve Hogarth now writes the majority of Marillion lyrics solo. |
| Helmer was previously part of the Brighton punk band The Piranhas, and is also a published writer - his first book Mother Tongue was released in 1999. He has also contributed lyrics to Steve Rothery's Wishing Tree project. |
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| Brian Jelliman |
| Brian was Marillion's original keyboard player, who contributed to the writing of several of the early Script... tracks. However, he was replaced by Mark Kelly in late 1981. |
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| Diz Minnett |
| Fish and bassist Diz were good friends who traveled together to Aylesbury and both joined Marillion in 1981 (at the same time the band dropped the original 'Sil-' from their name). |
| As with Brian Jelliman, Diz was involved with the writing of several Script... tracks, but was eventually replaced by Pete Trewavas in 1982. |
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| Erik Nielsen |
| The American native began touring with Marillion in the USA on the 1997 This Strange Engine tour, and returned to the UK with the band permanently to help with their operations at The Racket Club Studio, doing just about every job their was to do apart from write the songs! |
| Erik launched and ran the Racket Records Online Store and official Marillion Online websites in late 1997 and went on to act as business manager for the shop and website as well as the Intact Records label; he continued touring with the band until 2004 and running the website until early 2009. |
| In late 2008, Erik left his full-time position with Marillion to concentrate on his Wingnut Music consultancy initially with Elton John's Twenty First Artists management group; in 2009 he began managing A Genuine Freakshow and continues to be heavily involved in the music industry. |
| Erik's face can still be seen around the Racket Club from time to time working on occasional Marillion-related projects. |
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| Richard Pettifer |
| Richard has worked on the Marillion Online website since 2001, providing and maintaining the Marillion Online Forums, and providing occasional support and other interactive portions of the site. |
| Richard also runs his own marketing company. |
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| Colin Price |
| With Anoraknophobia pre-orders looming, Racket HQ sent out an email in 2000 to 'local' residents to find an extra hand at Racket Records. Colin was among those who answered, and both his previous experience and knowledge of the band made him a great addition to Planet Marillion. |
| His arrival during the 'boom' phase for Racket was perfectly timed, as he was able to throw whatever was pointed in his direction, including emergency guitar tech (which later became permanent), Postmankind album cover model, and photographer (his artistic photos decorate all Front Row Club releases) |
| Colin managed Racket Records and toured with Marillion as guitar tech until early 2008 when he set off on a life of crime tuning guitars for heavy metal legends Iron Maiden, amongst others. |
| You may occasionally see Colin at Racket Records with a hammer and saw... |
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| Mick Pointer |
| One of the founding members of the original 'Silmarillion', Mick Pointer played drums for the band in their early days and appears on the first studio album Script for a Jester's Tear. |
| During the promotional tour for the debut album, Mick left the band and was succeeded by several temporary drummers until Ian Mosley joined in 1984. |
| In 1995, Mick Pointer re-emerged on the music scene with the band Arena, who continue to record and tour. |
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| Former Marillion lead singer, 1980-1988 |
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| I've thought a lot about [leaving the band] and where it went wrong. I recently met up with the other guys in Oxford and we talked about the break up. We've all changed and age has done us all proud. Five family guys sat 'round a table and we discussed the affair as adults, and most importantly as good friends. |
| We toured far too much and always in the same areas to the point of overexposure. We all needed a break from each other and to recapture our private and personal lives away from the band. We needed to grow as people not as a band. |
| I left the band after 7 years and 4 great studio albums with no regrets and a sense of pride and accomplishment. In answer to those who still hold a torch for that era and a reformation of the '81-'88 line up I can only say that I'm sure as individuals we'll work together somewhere in the future, but as for anything else you would be clutching at straws. |
| Fish, Autumn 1999 |
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| I tie my own shoes! |
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| Marketing and Communications Manager |
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| Lucy Jordache joined the Marillion organisation in March 2000. Before this Lucy had worked at EMI Records for 6 years which is where she had met the band whilst working on remastering their back catalogue. They asked her to come and work for them and try and help raise their profile. |
| Years later Lucy is now multi-tasking on a daily basis. She books and promoters all the band's gigs worldwide, runs the hugely successful Marillion Weekends, liaises with the distribution companies round the world to try and make the various releases run smoothly and is always looking for the next press and PR opportunity. Lucy is also in direct communication with a vast proportion of the fan base and regularly asks them for opinions and feedback which are crucial to the business. |
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Racket Records Manager,
Tour Manager |
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| Rich stepped in on the 2001 Anoraknophobiatour after a recommendation from fellow Soul Beaver band-mate Colin Price. |
| Since then he has taken over the role of Marillion's full-time tour manager as well as stepping into the shoes of departed Colin Price manning the day-to-day running of Racket Records, answering your emails, and making sure your orders get to you in time! |
| Soul Beaver is also available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and funerals. |
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Marillion Weekend Organiser, Marketing and Communications Assistant |
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| Stephanie Bradley joined the Marillion Organisation in September 2005 properly after an internship packing hundreds of copies of Marbles. |
In addition to helping Lucy she is responsible for many things from advertising the UK tours in the press, collating all the reviews and press coverage, right down to the filing. |
| Stephanie also oversees the enormous task of the Marillion Weekend booking operations. |
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Producer: Somewhere Else, Happiness is the Road & Less is More |
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| Mike worked as an assistant engineer on the Brave album, both at The Racket Club, and at Marouatte in France. In addition to creating the River ambient/instrumental album as intro music for the Brave tour, he also became Mark's keyboard tech. After the tour finished, he returned to Liverpool and Parr Street Studio, working for such bands as Mansun, The Coral, and Alfie. |
| In 2004 he returned to the Racket Club to mix the majority of Marbles and was then invited to produce Somewhere Else and the recent Happiness is the Road double album. |
| With an in-depth knowledge of the music from these albums, Mike also mixed the soundtracks to the Marbles on the Road and Somewhere in London DVDs and several recent Racket Records live releases. |
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| Producer: Brave, Afraid of Sunlight, Anoraknophobia, Marbles |
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| Dave Meegan has been responsible for producing the 4 albums that the majority of Marillion fans rate as their personal favourite, as well as mixing This Strange Engine, Anorak in the UK, and The h Band's Live Spirit : Live Body - earning him the honorary title of "Marillion's 6th Member". |
| Dave first crossed paths with Marillion way back in 1984 working as a tape-op on Fugazi before producing Brave 10 years later. |
| His work on Marbles from 2002-2004 pushed him to the edge of his own sanity, and once he's recovered we hope to get his thoughts of the project in retrospect! |
| Dave has worked with countless artists, from U2 to Yes, and PIL to New Order - for a condensed 'Dave History' check out the album notes on this website for Anoraknophobia |
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| Artist, Photographer, Graphic Designer |
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| Carl Glover has designed artwork for Marillion from 1989-2009 (originally as part of Bill Smith Studios, and more recently his own company Aleph), on both studio album covers and Racket Records releases, as well as posters, ads, t-shirts, or anything else you can print on! |
| He has become part of the Marillion family, getting as excited about new albums (if not more so!) than the band. His artwork and photography are now synonymous with Marillion. |
| Carl owns his own London-based graphic design company, Aleph, with partner (and occasional cover-art subject!) Christine. |
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| Mark's artwork dons the covers of all the Marillion albums and singles from 1982 through to 1988. |
| Born on October 3, 1952 in Windsor, England, Mark Wilkinson has been working as a free-lance illustrator for the past twenty years. Most of his current work is in the realm of fantasy, and he has seen his illustrations used in a wide variety of formats, from book jackets, magazines, record sleeves and posters to stamp designs, advertising and film merchandise. |
| A recent collection of his artwork, including the Marillion album covers, has been published in a book, The Masque. Mark has also recently returned to the old Marillion images for the Front Row Club Curtain Call boxed set artwork. |
Mark Wilkinson's art book 'Shadowplay' is available now. You can see some sample pages here http://www.the-masque.com/shadowplay/ with his artwork for Fish and Marillion playing a major part - please contact him at mark@masque-studio.com. The book also features the best of his artwork over a thirty year career for bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, The Darkness, Bon Jovi and many other bands, as well as art for the Judge Dredd comic and designs for the Red Dwarf TV series. |
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