What are you listening to (3)? (Part 2)

Other bands and gigs
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Tool - Fear Inoculum

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Very impressive. Really enjoyed the whole album from beginning to end. Vocally and musically, it sounds superb.

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Mate of mine saw them last week. Said they were excellent live.

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They have a real classic metal sound. Both of their albums are excellent. Unfortunately for me they’re another British artist to add to the list that I love to listen to but will never get to see live (same as Massive Wagons, Rosalie Cunningham, Damian Wilson etc).

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Listened to this multiple times now over the last 5 days. Usually that wouldn’t be long enough to make a final judgement as to where it stands in their catalogue, but it’s definitely top 3 and must be a contender for prog album of the year. It’s a massive leap up over their last album. - I actually think Alberto Bravin is a bit of a genius for producing this and managing to piece all these disparate pieces of music together into a coherent narrative concept.

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I’ve listened to it four or five times now, straight through each time. The whole album just flows beautifully. Even though I’m not the mega-fan you are :wink:, I actually think it’s their most consistent record. There are all these little passages that remind me of other songs, but they come together perfectly…I guess that’s the whole point of a concept album! I already know it will be high on my list of favorite albums of 2026.

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https//www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001g8bh

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They’re now considering playing the whole of it on the autumn tour. I think they were originally going to just do a couple of tracks and back catalogue stuff.

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That will be an awesome experience. There are currently no plans for them to tour the US this year (except a couple of days on the ‘Cruise to the Edge’) so I have to hope for a date in 2027.

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Is this the same recording?

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The reason I ask is because I am blocked from listening to the link you posted.

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At first I didn’t think so as Early Stages doesn’t have any cover songs encore, but just looked at Set list.fm and appears to be the same date

www.setlist.fm/setlist/marillion/1987/wembley-arena-london-england-4bd4174a.html

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Just found my Early Stages. Appears that the full gig with 5 song encore isn’t on the cd’s.

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Thanks. I’ve never noticed they left incommunicado off the Early Stages CD. Seems a strange decision given its popularity from that era.

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Apparently a Princes Trust charity gig. Four cover songs with members of Iron Maiden for the encore.