Fish – The ‘Moveable Feast’ tour

Fish, effectively the performance wing of D. W. Dick, lyricist and songwriter, is a captivating frontman, punctuating his impassioned vocals with lyrical narrative digressions which often, like the story preceding Great War song cycle ‘High Wood’, touch as much as entertain. But the material presented him by Dick is not what it was, and when the shackles of history were finally thrown off with two songs from his Marillion pomp, he said more in the first few lines than he had in the previous hour and three-quarters. The audience, until then warmly appreciative, lit up like so many roman candles.

Concorde 2, 16 December 2014

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