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Fish's Thirteenth Star
January 17th, 2007
Onkel Fish recently announced that he is heading back to the recording studio this year for a new album to be be called Thirteenth Star:
And now!
Well Steve Vantsis arrives this weekend to begin the writing sessions on the new album which will be called the “Thirteenth Star”. Mark Wilkinson and I already have the cover virtually worked out and I must admit to being quite excited at the surge in activity around the project. (You should know how I start these projects by now – album title, then the cover, then the pressure to write the damn thing 
) Dates have already been booked in September for the UK and October is already nearly full with 9 Polish shows an indicator of where the positive vibes have taken me from the “Return to Childhood” tour. This tour is already named as the “Clutching at Stars” tour and with open air dates already in the books this Summer it looks like a long one. The dates will be announced once they are set in concrete and you can be sure of a long promo on both the album and the tour.
The album is intended to be finished by July and released to retail around October. Calum Malcolm is on hold to record the project here at the Studio in May and June. The garage has been built and all the stock and merchandise in the control room has been moved thereby clearing the space for creative work. The old ‘Helpenstill’ baby grand piano we used to demo “Vigil” back in 1989 is due for a service and tuning and is once again in situ in the back of the room awaiting tinkling! Blown speakers are being replaced and I am waiting on one of my crew to visit in the coming weeks to plug in and rewire the desks and effects etc as well as go through the buckets of cables currently shelved in the garage which is full to bursting point.
In the same missive, Fish talks about his daughter’s upcoming 16th birthday.
That’s her, Tara. I remember hearing about her birth just after Fish left Marillion and now she’s a young woman. Oh my christ, do I feel old now! She was just this wee lass when her dad wrote a song about her. OK, that was 10 years ago, but still…
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