“The Last Straw [Live In Glasgow 2018]” double album was recorded at the final show of FISH’s ‘Clutching at Straws / Weltschmerz tour’ at the O2 in Glasgow, Scotland, on December 13, 2018. It features an entire performance of 1987’s Clutching At Straws, Fish’s fourth and final album with the band Marillion.
Clutching at the Straws was the follow-up to Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood album, which hit #1 in the UK thanks to top 5 hits “Kayleigh” and “Lavender.” Straws delved into Fish’s struggles with fame on songs like the top-10 UK hit “Incommunicado” and his difficulties with alcoholism on songs like “Sugar Mice.”
The show also features four songs from Weltschmerz, which Fish has said will be his last album. Interestingly, though, these recordings are from 2018 while the Weltschmerz album wasn’t released until 2020. However, three of the songs (“Man with a Stick,” “Waverly Steps,” “Little Man What Now”) had been previously released on Fish’s EP Parley With Angels.
Only available at Fish’s website on physical format, “The Last Straw [Live In Glasgow 2018]” was produced by Steve Vantsis & mastered by Calum Malcolm. The sound quality is superb, crystalline.
The ‘Clutching At Straws’ album, Fish’s last with his former band Marillion, is acknowledged as his favourite of that period in his career, and it shows here all over his passionate performance.
Tracklist
Live at Glasgow O2 Academy - 13th December 2018
CD1-1 Sláinthe Mhath 6:25
CD1-2 Man With A Stick 6:43
CD1-3 Hotel Hobbies 4:45
CD1-4 Warm Wet Circles 4:34
CD1-5 That Time Of The Night 6:39
CD1-6 Little Man What Now 10:10
CD1-7 Torch Song 4:06
CD1-8 White Russian 6:54
CD2-1 Just For The Record 5:12
CD2-2 C Song 10:57
CD2-3 Going Under 3:50
CD2-4 Sugar Mice 7:02
CD2-5 Waverly Steps 13:59
CD2-6 The Last Straw 8:50
CD2-7 Tux On 5:24
CD2-8 Incommunicado 6:26
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