WINTER 2025 FOREWORD

If you’re the sort of Marillion fan that is dedicated enough to be a member of the Web UK, it’s probably fair to say that the band have blown you away on more than a few occasions across the years. Nevertheless, it’s probably also fair to say that none of us could have predicted the announcement that was made on 30th November 2025; Marillion are going to play two nights at the Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii!

It is not an exaggeration to say that your humble intro-writing scribe may have used an expression occasionally rendered as ‘OMFG!’ because even for a band that does the incredible remarkably often, this was really something special. The immediate go-to associations for a band like Marillion playing at Pompeii are obvious and significant. We all knew the second we heard it that these would be gigs that would be arguably more prestigious than the unquestionably Very Highly Prestigious Marillion shows at the Royal Albert Hall.

You can read about the announcement in this very magazine, but while you’re awaiting the show, if you were lucky enough to get tickets, or the movie if not, allow us to keep you simmering with Mark McCormac’s reviews of the Marillion Weekends and the Kernowfornia festival, an interview by Anne Bond with Nick Van Eede from the very well received Weekend support act Cutting Crew, Lucy Jones reflecting on the remarkable generosity of fans during the Leicester Weekend, Fraser Marshall interviews Mark Kelly and daughter Tallulah about their Prog and Progeny podcast, the charming / terrifying (delete to taste) dolls that Lucy presented to the band at Leicester and, if we haven’t spoiled you enough, the UK tour dates!

Not even Christmas yet, and look at all of those presents!

Aren’t we all lucky?

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