Happy New Year to marillio-heads everywhere from snowed-in Oxfordshire.

 

I've started noodling around at home to get the creative juices flowing in

anticipation of work resuming this week at the Racket Club. Assuming we can

get there with all this snow, we intend to start work on album No.16, or is

it 17? I'm not sure really. Does L=M count as a album? Do Marbles and HITR

count as two? Who, except Ian is counting anyway? I'm pretty excited to get

started on something brand new but I'm sure the excitement will start to

fade a few weeks in when we are arguing over crochets and minor thirds which

is why we have a trip planned to Portugal in March for some writing in the

sun. We will be setting a few hours aside to brush up on the acoustic set

for the gig in Lousada on the 27th www.marillion.com/tour.

 

 

 

I'm beginning to regret setting fire to my harmonium whilst drunk one

night.(see above) I wanted to play the Arthur Brown song "Fire"

with some real feeling and things got a bit out of hand. I didn't think I'd

be needing it again, Oh well, at least I sampled it AND I've been on the

wagon since Jan 1st, so things are looking up!

 

Love and hugs

 

Mark

 

 

 

I'd like to thank anyone who made it to the Wishing Tree concert at 

the Bush Hall. It was a great evening and a lot of fun once we'd 

sorted out the little problem with the dead bass drum!

 

It seems we might have seen the worst of the bad weather and I'm eager 

to start writing again at the Racket Club. I'm also looking forward to 

picking up my new Jack Dent guitars in New York at the end of the 

month. I've got a couple of things planned while I'm over.

 

I'm giving a guitar clinic at the Dog Ear Tavern (http://www.dogeartavern.com) 

on Saturday the 30th January during the afternoon followed by a social 

gathering and jam session in the evening at the same venue.

 

Email rotheryusaclinic@gmail.com if you're interested in attending either event.

 

Here's to a great 2010!

 

Steve