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Fish review – euphoric opening to a prog hero’s farewell tour
The former Marillion singer was on rousing form as he delivered power ballads and intricate rock anthems spanning a career of more than four decades
In 1985 Derek William Dick, the Scottish singer known as Fish, was locked into an intense, vivid and kaleidoscopic LSD experience which provided him with the inspiration for a concept album Misplaced Childhood, which would go on to be hugely successful and spawn multiple hits. Forty years later, the closest thing to hallucinatory visions tonight are the trippy, lysergic slides that play behind him, as the ex-singer of the neo-prog rock outfit Marillion begins his farewell tour at 66. Fish at Albert Hall Manchester Photograph: Lucy EvansFish’s voice mirrors this pendulum swing too, sounding mighty, rousing and a little raspy on tracks such as the thundering Credo or the punchy Big Wedge, but graceful and sweet on songs such A Gentleman’s Excuse Me.
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