Hi all,

Marillion are four shows into the 'Less Is More' tour and they're having a great time. Thanks for all your support and love - the Marillion audience just gets better and better.

We hope you've all managed to hear 'Less Is More' by now and are enjoying it - remember you can buy it from us directly at www.marillion.com/shop/index.htmor from our merchandise desks out on the tour.
It's also available in most record shops - a few of you have been sending us photos of the displays and we're really enjoying seeing them all!

Whilst you're visiting our shop please check out the new range of 'Less Is More' merchandise including tour t-shirts, polo shirts, jackets, computer bags, wallets and much more! www.marillion.com/shop/clothing/index.htm

See you all soon!

The Racket office team

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Title: RTV Episode 6 'Less is more...'

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Today is the official release date of 'Less is more'.

If you haven't ordered the album yet head over to the Racket Store at:
www.marillion.com/music/albums/lessto purchase your copy. Or if you still prefer to buy your music from retail shops then it should be available from all good record (excluding North America and Japan)

 North America and Japan will be releasing the album next month - we'll let you know when we have a firm release date.

Or of course you can buy it from us at most gigs on the tour, along with a fine selection of new t-shirts, polo shirts and other great goodies (all of which will also be available to buy from our website sometime next week)

Episode 6 of Racket Television features an in-depth interview with H, talking about the recording process and the new track 'It's Not Your fault'. It also includes some sound clips.

Today is also the last day of rehearsals for the tour which started in Brighton yesterday (hurrah!). We're looking forward to seeing some of you on the road but for those of you who can't make it to the shows remember we will be recording them and getting them up for download if not the next day then shortly after.  Keep an eye on the front page of www.marillion.comfor details.

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H, Mark, Ian, Pete and Steve

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Dear All

We hope you all had a great summer.  As you know we are gearing up for the release of our new album 'Less Is More'  If this is the first you're hearing about it then where have you been?!  Head over to www.marillion.com and check out full details.

We have one week of tour rehearsals left and we're looking forward to what we hope will be our most relaxed and spontaneous tour ever. It's also going to be a challenge for us to play musical instruments you wouldn't normally associate with Marillion. Wish us luck..

At the times of writing this we're happy to say that most of the gigs are either sold out or close to selling out so head over to www.marillion.com/tour and grab the final tickets and we'll hopefully see some of you out on the road.  Sorry again to those of you who write to us from all over the world wanting to see a show in your own country - for our explanation on why we can't always tour the places we want to please look at our website;  http://www.marillion.com/tour/info.htm

As with the Happiness Is The Road Tour 2008/2009, we will be recording most of the shows and putting them up for download on our site as soon after the gigs as possible.  We hope you enjoy them.

See you soon!

h, Mark, Ian, Steve and Pete

NEWS FROM RACKET RECORDS

Some things we realised that you may not know about.  Firstly our very own Mark Kelly has his own Twitter page - follow him as he often has some very interesting things to say!  www.twitter.com/markke11y

We now have an 'App' for those of you who have an IPhone - go to the Apple App Store and search for Marillion and there we are. It includes, videos, puzzles, gig listings, exclusive wallpapers and more.

Finally - As you may or may not know we have a worldwide team of fan clubs.

You may have seen communications from us in the past where we talk about 'Web Members' as each fan club is called 'The Web'.   Every year each fan club gives their members a free CD which comes directly from the band.  A list of previous fan club CD's can be found here to give you an idea of the kind of stuff we do http://www.marillion.com/web/xmas.htm.

This year we are pleased to announce that for the first time we will be giving Web members a free DVD!  This will be a DVD of the Cologne Happiness Is The Road Tour concert in 2008 - we're calling it 'Snow De Cologne'.  Full track listing details will follow soon.  So make sure that your membership is up to date or join before December 1st to guarantee yourself one.  

For your local fan club please look here

http://www.marillion.com/web/index.htm

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We're back with more Marillion TV. Episode 5 gives Ian and Pete a chance to talk about their involvement with the new acoustic album.

It includes a double helping of sound clips taken from 'Less is More' - 'This is the 21st Century and 'Interior Lulu'.
Watch it here at http://www.youtube.com/marillionofficial

We are getting ready for the official release of the album on Friday 2 October. If you haven't ordered the album yet head over to the Racket Store at: http:www.marillion.com/music/albums/less.htm to purchase your copy. Or if you still prefer to buy your music from retail then it should be available from all good record stores or you can buy it from us at most gigs on the tour.

We can't wait for you to hear it.

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H, Mark, Ian, Pete and Steve

You can view Racket Television from the following places:

Marillion frontpage: www.marillion.com
Marillion YouTube page: www.youtube.com/marillionofficial
Marillion ilike page: www.ilike.com/artist/Marillion
Marillion Podcast: Via the iTunes store, search 'Marillion Online Podcast'

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Hopefully it was worth the wait! Here is a specially extended episode of Racket Television. www.youtube.com/marillionofficial

The band have taken a quick break from rehearsals for the upcoming tour, to answer some of your questions submitted via the Marillion Online Forum.

'Less is More' is available to Pre-order now from marillion.com and includes the new track 'It's Not Your Fault'.

We will see you again with the next episode very soon.

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H, Mark, Ian, Pete and Steve


You can view Racket Television from the following places:

Marillion frontpage:www.marillion.com
Marillion YouTube page:www.youtube.com/marillionofficial
Marillion ilike page:www.ilike.com/artist/Marillion
Marillion Podcast: Via the iTunes store, search 'Marillion Online Podcast'

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Hurrah!

Hopefully our Racket TV episodes have got you as vibed-up as we are about the release of our new 'Less Is More' album and tour (www.marillion.com/tour.
The wait for the album is now over and it's now available to
pre-order straight from us at www.marillion.com  If you order it from us we will start posting them all out on October 2nd (the official release
date) but we know how you hate to wait so you'll also get a free download of the album sent to you on October 2nd.

Remember it's perfectly safe to order from us - if you have any doubts about ordering over the internet then go and visit our online forum at www.marillion.comand ask all the thousands of fans who use the Racket Records shop about their positive experiences!  And remember even if you don't have a credit card we also use Paypal.

If you still don't like to order online you'll be pleased to know that we
have signed a distribution deal with Ear Music and Less Is More will also be available in all good record shops.  Ah, just like in the old days!

This acoustic experiment has exceeded our expectations on every level and we're really proud of it.
We feel we've pushed the boundaries of our music once again into new areas of expression.
We look forward to playing the songs to you live on tour very soon. It's all sounding great in rehearsal.

More episodes of Racket TV coming very soon - we've been a bit busy with the album and we're sorry for the delay!

H, Mark, Ian, Pete and Steve


P.S.  If you want to hear a track from Less Is More head over to:

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Marillion/track/Hard+As+Love+-+Acoustic/

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We are pleased to announce that Less Is More will be distributed throughout Europe (and therefore hopefully available in all good record shops).  The release date for the album is October 2nd.

Racket Records and Marillion will also be stocking the new album and ordering details will be available on our site soon.  We will not start shipping ordered copies until October 2nd but everyone who orders from us will receive a free download of the album on this date.  The album will also be available to buy at most of our concerts dates (with the possible exception of 6th - 18th November dates).

The tracklisting is:

GO
INTERIOR LULU
OUT OF THIS WORLD
WRAPPED UP IN TIME
THE SPACE
HARD AS LOVE
QUARTZ
IF MY HEART WERE A BALL
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT
THE MEMORY OF WATER
THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY

(plus additional hidden track)

Enjoy!

h, Pete, Ian, Steve and Mark
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Hello everyone

We hope you're enjoying your summer holidays.  You'll be pleased to hear that we have finished mixing Less Is More and we're in the final approval stage before it goes off to be mastered next week. (It's sounding marvelous btw.)

As well as having another episode of Racket TV for you over the next couple of weeks (for those of you who don't know what we're talking about please check out www.youtube.com/marilliononline, we should be able to reveal the tracklisting and artwork to you very soon, along with details of how you can buy it!

If you want to hear a sneak preview of a couple of the tracks then see if you can make it to Trafalgar Square next Tuesday 1st September at 8.00pm.
Long time Marillion fan Richard Loveridge is taking part in the One and Only art display and will be standing on the 4th vacant plinth for an hour!
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/about/plinth
Who knows? One (or maybe all) of the band might show up for a look!..

Richard wrote to us wanting to know if it would be OK for him to use part of his hour to talk about his history with Marillion and play a couple of the new tracks from Less is More and we thought that could be a great occasion!

For more details on Richard please visit:
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Bingo_McDingoand pledge him your support.

If you can't make it to London you'll be able to watch Richard live online (and hear the tracks of course!)

See you all soon

H, Ian, Pete, Steve and Mark

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Episode 3 is now up at marillion.com and on our official YouTube page. In this episode Steve Rothery introduces his new signature range guitar and gives his thoughts on the new acoustic album. This time we bring you sound sketches from a mystery track...guess it if you can!


The Less is more Tour is selling out fast so if you haven't bought your tickets yet, make sure you don't miss out. Head over to www.marillion.com/tourfor more information.

Stay Tuned. Transmission continues after a short break for the summer holidays...

h, Ian, Mark, Pete, Steve


You can view Racket Television from the following places:
Marillion frontpage: www.marillion.com
Marillion YouTube page: www.youtube.com/marillionofficial
Marillion ilike page: www.ilike.com/artist/Marillion
Marillion Podcast: Via the iTunes store, search 'Marillion Online Podcast'

 

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