NEW TRANSATLANTIC ALBUM.

We have just received the new Transatlantic Album "The Whirlwind" here at Racket Records and it looks and sounds amazing.

Any Transatlantic fans or Marillion fans for that matter who would like to hear what I got up to in Nashville after the Canadian convention can order any of the 3 versions direct from Racket Records. I think you'll like it.

http://www.marillion.com/music/solo/ta-whirlwind.htm

The 2 CD special edition & Box set feature the song "Lending A Hand" that I wrote, arranged and sang lead vocals on for the project.

The Deluxe edition also has the making of DVD with lots of footage of me and the guys actually being filmed while recording and generally misbehaving in the studio.

It was a lot of fun.

Pete

WISHING TREE AT BUSH HALL

Here's the latest news with regards to the Wishing Tree concert at Bush Hall in London on the 20th December.

We've decided to make it a combined Wishing tree concert and my 50th birthday party! I'll also be playing a few cover versions of some of my favourite songs and hopefully have a few special guests as well.

It should be a fun evening! Hope you can make it.

There are a few tickets left at www.wegottickets.com

Steve

A WORD FROM MR H.

Oslo. What can I say? It started out like any other L=M gig but at some point in the second set, the audience just ran off with it. I felt like I was riding a horse in a horse-race which suddenly turned left and ran off the track, down the road an...d through town!

The band tried to keep up with the crowd and more than one unrehearsed song had to be er.. performed. This extended the show somewhat as you'll hear..

Quite a night, and definitely the best vibe we've had in Oslo to date. I think we're finally getting to know each other..

H

MESSAGE FROM RACKET RECORDS

A download of the Oslo show (along with the rest of the first leg of the tour) is now up for sale at www.marillion.com/tour

Over the coming days and weeks, (in time for your Christmas shopping!), we will be dropping prices throughout the Racket Records store and also offering very special offers on t-shirt bundles, DVD bundles and much more.

Come and visit the site often for updates.

For those of you waiting to hear about the Happiness Is The Road limited edition vinyl release - well we should have some more news for you on this next week.

A final reminder about the FREE fan club DVD.

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 November 10th to guarantee yourself one.

For your local fan club please look here http://www.marillion.com/web/index.htm

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NEW TRANSATLANTIC ALBUM.

We have just received the new Transatlantic Album "The Whirlwind" here at Racket Records and it looks and sounds amazing.

Any Transatlantic fans or Marillion fans for that matter who would like to hear what I got up to in Nashville after the Canadian convention can order any of the 3 versions direct from Racket Records. I think you'll like it.

http://www.marillion.com/music/solo/ta-whirlwind.htm

The 2 CD special edition & Box set feature the song "Lending A Hand" that I wrote, arranged and sang lead vocals on for the project.

The Deluxe edition also has the making of DVD with lots of footage of me and the guys actually being filmed while recording and generally misbehaving in the studio.

It was a lot of fun.

Pete

WISHING TREE AT BUSH HALL

Here's the latest news with regards to the Wishing Tree concert at Bush Hall in London on the 20th December.

We've decided to make it a combined Wishing tree concert and my 50th birthday party! I'll also be playing a few cover versions of some of my favourite songs and hopefully have a few special guests as well.

It should be a fun evening! Hope you can make it.

There are a few tickets left at www.wegottickets.com

Steve

A WORD FROM MR H.

Oslo. What can I say? It started out like any other L=M gig but at some point in the second set, the audience just ran off with it. I felt like I was riding a horse in a horse-race which suddenly turned left and ran off the track, down the road an...d through town!

The band tried to keep up with the crowd and more than one unrehearsed song had to be er.. performed. This extended the show somewhat as you'll hear..

Quite a night, and definitely the best vibe we've had in Oslo to date. I think we're finally getting to know each other..

H

MESSAGE FROM RACKET RECORDS

A download of the Oslo show (along with the rest of the first leg of the tour) is now up for sale at www.marillion.com/tour

Over the coming days and weeks, (in time for your Christmas shopping!), we will be dropping prices throughout the Racket Records store and also offering very special offers on t-shirt bundles, DVD bundles and much more.

Come and visit the site often for updates.

For those of you waiting to hear about the Happiness Is The Road limited edition vinyl release - well we should have some more news for you on this next week.

A final reminder about the FREE fan club DVD.

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 November 10th to guarantee yourself one.

For your local fan club please look here http://www.marillion.com/web/index.htm

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Just to remind you all that we are are coming over to the Baltic States next week to play some special shows as part of the Less Is More Acoustic Tour.

The dates are:
6 November Helsinki
8 November Tallinn
10 November Vilnius
11 November Riga

Further information can be found at www.marillion.com/tour

We hope to meet you all!

Steve, h, Pete, Mark and Ian

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We just got back from Oslo - here's a message from Steve Hogarth.

"Oslo. What can I say? It started out like any other L=M gig but at some point in the second set, the audience just ran off with it. I felt like I was riding a horse in a horse-race which suddenly turned left and ran off the track, down the road and through town! The band tried to keep up with the crowd and more than one unrehearsed song had to be er.. performed. This extended the show somewhat as you'll hear..  Quite a night, and definitely the best vibe we've had in Oslo to date.  I think we're finally getting to know each other.. h"

The download of this show (along with the rest of the first leg of the tour) should be up for sale on Friday at www.marillion.com/tour

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Hello from the road!.

On Saturday we played the last show of the first leg of the L=M tour at the Gasometer (it really used to be a gas storage facility) in Oberhausen, Germany.
Overall, the gigs have been great fun and really well received. I a bit surprised how well the acoustic stuff has been going down as it's not really like a normal Marillion show. Many people have commented to me that the album is great to introduce Marillion newbies to the band, as it's very accessible for first time listeners. So you know what to get your non Marillion friends for Xmas now! Thank you to everyone who's come to see us so far and made the last 2 weeks great fun. We're looking forward to a few days at home next week and then Oslo at the weekend.

If you can't join us on the tour, we are making many shows available for download at http://www.marillion.com/shop/music/acoustic.htm

You can also follow my daily (if not always sensible) updates and snapshots on Twitter. my twitter name is markke11y

See you soon

Mark

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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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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...'

Transmission continues...

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.

Transmission ends...


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

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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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Transmission continues...

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.

Transmission ends...


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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