Clutching At Straws (Deluxe Edition)

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.