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 Steve Hogarth, the Marillion vocalist, has checked in to confirm that work on the bands upcoming album 'Happiness is the Road' is progressing nicely.
He said "Pete showed up with a sketch of backing vocals for "Nothing Fills The
Hole", which is about as near to Marvin Gaye as we're ever likely to
get (unless we cover Abraham, Martin and John again..).
"This morning we were working a little more on the arrangement of the
title track - "Happiness Is The Road". Digital technology allows us to
take entire sections of music and whizz them about from one end of the
song to the other, in case it makes more musical or lyrical sense that
way round. This is very handy because sometimes it's just too hard to
imagine these things - you have to hear them. So we've been doing a
little of this, and then we've been in the studio trying to write new
chords for a more cinematic section of the song.
"We've decided
we're happy with the new ideas so Pete is currently in the control room
putting some new bass on the song. Tomorrow morning Steve will play
guitar overdubs and, in the evening, I'll do a few lead vocal takes and
maybe work together with Mike on backing vocal ideas.
"It's all
go, and it's sounding fabulous. "The Man From The Planet Marzipan" is
sounding v. brilliant also, and The Count (Ian M) telephoned me over
the weekend to enthuse over his current favourite "Asylum Satellite 1".
"The cake is out of the oven and we're queuing up to ice it.. mmm.."
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