ShareMarillion performing their Live In The UK 2026 Tour at The Royal Concert Hall Nottingham on Sunday 20th September 2026.
Images and Review by Kevin Cooper
Neo-prog band Marillion were at the Royal Concert Hall on Sunday night to deliver a set list that relied upon Steve Rothery’s clean melodic and emotional guitar solos, top drawer keyboard playing from Mark Kelly and Steve Hogarth’s dramatic, resilient and assertive vocals. With the crowd spellbound from the start, the band delivered over two hours of magnificence.
They began the show with the epic track from 2012’s Sounds That Can’t Be Made, the seventeen minute opening track, Gaza. On probably the most political song that they have written, Rothery was in great form. His bursting solo that emerged ten minutes into the song escalated the crowd’s emotions even higher.
Up next was the climate change song, Season’s End recorded way back in 1989. There was something undoubtedly poignant as the crowd sang along to the lyrics after the hottest summer on record. Drummer Ian Mosley anchored the set with bassist Pete Trewavas whilst Kelly did his stuff with the minimum of fuss on the work-in-progress song Ribbons And Lace which allowed Rothery’s excellent guitar solo to really hit the spot.
From the opening minutes Hogarth stalked the stage like a man possessed, delivering incredible vocals especially on the unexpected Hotel Hobbies from Clutching At Straws which was the only Fish-era song on the set list, which was followed by the title track of one of Marillion’s greatest albums Afraid Of Sunlight which led into a section of deep cuts that included the fabulous Built-In Bastard Radar.
There were five tracks from 2022’s An Hour Before It’s Dark which included The Crow And The Nightingale before Hogarth’s efforts to provoke a sing along during Easter was so successful that he had to give up and let the crowd get on with it.
Finishing the main set with Wave, Mad and The Great Escape, they were back for The Release and The Space and as they left the stage it was clear that despite the band’s advancing years, they still have plenty of gas left in their tank.
