Fish
Retired Scottish singer-songwriterWikipedia
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Oct 27, 2026
Craig HoustonHOST
And, you know, like you said, it's a bit of a concept piece, a loose concept piece that It's an album I do enjoy But it's not an album I play very often But when I play it I do enjoy it
Seamus ColganGUEST
Clutching a Straw is probably my favorite Phish album, but the two Happiness the Road albums are much stronger, in my opinion, and I play them more often.
Seamus ColganGUEST
I love the two of them.
Seamus ColganGUEST
Personally, the second one is my favorite of the two, but I think they're great albums, a lot of experimentation.
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Martin JakubskiGUEST
I never listen to that.
Martin JakubskiGUEST
Well, where do you start with an omelette clutching the straws? You know, the bookend to the fish era in terms of, you know, recorded material.
Martin JakubskiGUEST
And in many ways, I think the sort of culmination of everything that they had done up to that point, I think there's a real maturity on clutching the straws, which if you If you compare it to script, the evolution in terms of songwriting, playing, and, you know, lyrically and Fish's vocal delivery, it's a huge shift in the space of four years.
Martin JakubskiGUEST
It's a massive, massive leap.
AndrewHOST
Okay, so before we get to your thoughts on the song, Matt, further note, this song was covered by a couple people.
AndrewHOST
So notably, a guy named Phish, F-I-S-H, so not Phish, the band that we love, but Phish, who I'd never heard of, for his 1993 album Songs from the Mirror.
AndrewHOST
And actually, Matt and I both listened to this song.
AndrewHOST
For me, kind of a decent cover.
Craig HoustonHOST
[laughs]
John MerrickHOST
I'm Derek the Fish, and I'm here with my good friends Craig and...
Mikey KayPANELIST
Mikey
John MerrickHOST
... and?
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Graham TennickPANELIST
You know, I think Bono's l-...
Graham TennickPANELIST
One thing I will say in this is Bono, Bono's...
Graham TennickPANELIST
We talk about, um, Fish in the other, in the other podcast.
Graham TennickPANELIST
We talk about Fish with his, like, sort of lovelorn schoolboy lyrics and what have you.
Howard H SmithHOST
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Howard H SmithHOST
I was a Marillion obsessive, and I got to sit, I got to sit down in a hotel foyer for an hour, just me and Fish.
Neil PerryGUEST
Right.
Howard H SmithHOST
Well, me, Fish, and a bowl of soup.
Neil PerryGUEST
[laughs]
Howard H SmithHOST
Um, and um, I mean, yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
John MerrickHOST
Derek.
John MerrickHOST
I'm Derek the Fish.
John MerrickHOST
And I'm here with my good friends.
John MerrickHOST
Craig.
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Grae TennickHOST
And this is the first time I think I'd heard it working as well with U2.
Grae TennickHOST
And it's really exciting as a song, really exciting as a song.
Grae TennickHOST
And the subject matter is dark, but really well portrayed with, you know, I think Bono's, one thing I will say in this is Bono's, we talk about Fish in the other podcast, we don't want Fish with his like sort of love lawn schoolboy lyrics and what have you.
Grae TennickHOST
I think previously Bono had been very sort of naively political,
Craig HoustonHOST
Back when Craigie was in his infancy of buying things, I didn't actually buy this until the start of 1990.
Craig HoustonHOST
It was the last release while Fish was still a member of the band.
Craig HoustonHOST
And it brings together pretty much all of the B-sides that were released from Market Square Heroes up until...
Craig HoustonHOST
It's actually Sugar Mice because Warm Wet Circles were live stuff.
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Graham TennickPANELIST
We had much more bold composition.
Graham TennickPANELIST
If we think back to the way the album was introduced, we had two songs, side one and side two.
Graham TennickPANELIST
And those two sides still for me when I listen to this album contains some of the strongest sections of music that Marillion have produced and I don't think I'm saying that I know I'm not saying that Fisher is better because that's not what I'm saying I think Brave is perhaps is my favorite Brave is my favorite Marillion album we know that we've talked about that beforehand for various reasons but I think The sections like blind curve with your, the milo section and your perimeter walking threshold, the way that builds and it's, If you were a fan and you knew what was going on and you listened to the lyrics, you can understand why he's writing what he's talking about.
Graham TennickPANELIST
His own experience, the band's experience, the loss of somebody who was part of their family.
RobGUEST
I, I think Stranglers now with Baz Warne are a lot better, but history's history.
RobGUEST
But yeah, same with other bands like Marillion, you know, Fish wasn't the original singer, Stuart Adamson wasn't the original singer of Big Country, Bon Scott was, wasn't the original singer for AC/DC.
RobGUEST
So, you know-
PabloPANELIST
Yeah
John MerrickHOST
I am.
John MerrickHOST
If you've heard us on the Planet Marzipan, Simon's been on a couple of times to help us review the Hacker and Rothery album recently and also the Tony Banks and Fish tracks.
John MerrickHOST
So go and search those out and go and listen to their podcast.
John MerrickHOST
It's very, very, very interesting.
EHOST
So to define King Crimson in one, well, two sentences, I guess.
EHOST
It's like Rush and Fish had a baby and gave the baby LSD.
TankHOST
That's really good.
TankHOST
I did.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
in confusion I'm fading out from Here we are in the edge of time Our minds in confusion are fading out from reality I feel the doubts are growing Dissatisfaction all around What is the sound they're sounding? What is the light they're shining? Still there's emotions deep inside Tearing down the prison walls Of a cloned society For we sleepwalk in a crowd Of conformity Reconstructing all anew Values of the past We light the flame If our children are the last Will that be their legacy? This insanity Is there another chance? Thank you.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
There's a man With a suitcase And he stares through your window Never letting go No ground to take the fall But I need to save him I need to make him understand That he's not alone A secret Halfway to somewhere else Still waiting for your call And now he's over the railing He's falling deep beneath the sea But he's not alone He's not alone There is no future inside of you Upon nights this So the story goes Some folks say they see the ghost of Thomas Fisher wait Outside the Ivy Gate It was so long ago The fishers planned their home Until one fateful day the army letter came It changed everything, it came and summoned Tom away To fight for king and country Ooh, those months that we suffer each day Their child was on the She soldiered on but come the happy day Both were lost they say Then buried in the grave The Fisher family plot goes to the ivy game La la la la Thank you.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
In deep sorrow he laments it to the Lord That he could live no more Grieving for his wife and their child stillborn He did take his life Some still say see you Out of the corner of their eye In the slate grey rain Outside the ivy
Steve LazenbyHOST
Ah, and that Fab Five caused some Conversation in the chat room.
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