Kayleigh & Lavender - Marillion (Rock Steady 1990)

[MrWhy2009]

Me and how many people ? :-( : Misplaced childhood

[Gerarock1]

The guitar man is the best for all.

[dio666able]

without Fish, nahhhh!

[Dejvideq]

Hogarth is good but when i hear Fish's voice i feel i'm in theater and he is great actor!

[JeauxBand]

This song is Fish's all the way - but Hogarth really sounds at the top of his game.

[thecelestialtoymaker]

At times this is impossible to watch. No matter whose holding the microphone, Kayleigh is a song that is meant to be sung by Fish. This is a pity because H actually does a fantastic job here. He has a wonderful voice and he is natural successor to Fish. Fish sings Kayleigh with emotion because he wrote the words and it meant something to him. H does his own interpretation of the hit and does a good job as he does a good job on Lavender.

[OxygeneLady]

H. shouldn't sung this song. This is totally Fish, only with his voice and emotions it could be called Kayleigh, this is "something sounds a bit like Kayleigh". H. totally killed this song.

[mariangeorgiev1]

Steve is so slim sized here, I love this guy, great musician. He is not playing, he is touching the guitar

[LotusWestCH]

Looser singer.

[gowestward1]

Kind of the same feel when Phil Collins sings Gabriel-era Genesis. The post '88Marillion is good, but some of it has become redundant....alot of it sounds the same album after album. Fish and Hogarth are poles apart musically & lyrically. Waiting for the day for a Marillion reunion...a one-off performance filmed in Scotland..

[catfdljws]

do keep in mind (those of you with open minds) that this recording was more than 20 years ago. H has gotten considerably more "into" the older material when he performs it today (and the band's equipment and sound quality is far better these days as well).

He's also not trying to be "the better Fish", and I wouldn't want him to.

[Iminthecarsi]

loved it up until the guy started singing

[CallinDrLove]

Sounds like a Fish-Tribute Band...sorry, but this is nothing to the original...

[plasticPlaystation]

FIsh never sang this good!

[JRBL1A1]

This is very similar to Sammy Hagar singing "Jump" for Van Halen: good, real good. But not just the same.... :)

[kanemura93]

I totally agree.

[HolgerFisher]

I like them both. But I don't like Hogarth to sing Fish-Songs. Only before I heard the version of Fish. Fish is Fish an "H" is "H". Marillion to me are two kompletely different Bands. I sing in a tribute.show and I think I'm the better Fish than "H". Something in between. But "Kayleigh" to me is the hardest Fish-Song to sing.

[harmon43023]

Please excuse me for sounding so bad in this song << hogart (he has his own songs, and should stick to them). No one can sing this song without sounding ridiculous, except FISH, the music can be reproduced but not his passion.

[seismiccowboy]

Agreed.

[lyngoodwin]

No comparison to the Fish version, sounds "weak" .

[nachois]

I feel this like a joke to Fish by Hogart...

But I like both singers anyways ;)

[BackInBlack5]

I enjoy both eras of the band. I don't base it on who sings what or who isn't there.

I base it on what I'm hearing, pure and simple.

I enjoyed listening to this, and I enjoy listening to Fish sing it.

To those who say the band went downhill after Fish left, Easter and Beautiful disagree.

[josiejko]

PLISSS...FISHHH

[antartic60]

With all the respect. fish voice is unique there is no comparison with any other. marillion is not marillion without him, for me

[mrpeterph]

I remember when the band played in Copenhagen that year (1990), I used to love Marillion with Fish, that night I was exited to hear if H could do the Fish songs as well as he did, the verdict was very simple, he did it even better. Any one with just a bit of musical talent can easily hear that H is a better singer, Fish was more of a storyteller. I love both eras, but the H-era is more delicate and sophisticated, more feel than almost any other bands....

[nobby2000]

Sure Hogarth is not a bad singer, but no one can sing Kayleigh like the man Fish. Hogarth doesn't come close I'm afraid. His voice lacks the power and most importantly it hasn't got that distinctive, uniqueness that Fish had in his voice. Hogarth just 'sings' Fish told a story, while he sang, with his voice.

[snelitt]

Weird to hear H in this song, although he inserts just as much emotion as FISH and, imo, even more when he sings his own material. I have the impression that H sings his heart out while Fish acts as an actor playing himself.

[slader22]

There must be official divide. Hogarth can't sing Fish's songs and vice versa. I can't bear Steve's vocal in that song.

[trombadj]

There' s no other Kayleigh version without Fish.

I'm sorry for my words but it's just like to put the chocolate near the shit.

[yknottry1]

Seriously sad, but true. One man leaves and another takes his place, so he thought. Fish is MARILLION, this is shite. If the singer, I know his name, but I won't even give him the grace of mentioning it. He sucks, and he knows it. Long live FISH, he's brill.

[progkidjoel]

He doesn't suck, and FISH is brill.

Maybe his covers of FISH aren't that great, but to say "this is shite" is just ignorant. He's fantastic, and thats coming from a much more FISH era loving fan. He is brilliant in his own wat, and to say "He sucks, and he knows it."

Is just ridiculous and stupid.

Go buy "This Strange Engine", "Brave" or "Season's End" and tell me that "He sucks, and he knows it."

He's brilliant, I know it and he knows it.

Learn something or listen to some h era.

[progkidjoel]

Thanks a ton for the post.

Still pretty good, even if the vocals are most suited to FISH's voice.

[BackInBlack5]

In my opinion Hogarth has some really good vocals at certain points in this performance, his voice seems to high during the verse, he has to suddenly stop before reaching any vibrato. But really good, specially during the chorus.

[archienuke]

Weak as piss..

[slader22]

Excuse me. When Fish had left, Marillion changed vocalist, which wrote them new songs. These performance above only shows what brang Marillion to the Top.

[darkstar3869]

What brang? did you not go to school ? everybody knows marillion had had their day , they had already reached the top , hogarth has not got the charisma fish has , i`d love to hear him sing Forgotten Sons , lol , does he still wear his silly magic gloves ? lol

[darkstar3869]

sounds bloody awful , Marillion should of packed up when Fish left , these lyrics were personal to Fish , he goes nowhere near emulating what the former frontman achieved , Hogarth wat a dick!!!!!!!!!!!! (excuse the pun )

[Philmacrakken]

That guy's voice has no balls.

[Queenesy]

weak version.....Fish is much more powerfull and brilliant! this sounds a bit fade- out...Marillion is not the same without Fish :-(

[dapadau]

He sings it very well, but it lacks a certain emotion, probably cause the lyrics were personal to Fish..(?)

[balcer79]

wolę Kayleight w wykonaniu Ryby

[raf47]

Great work H!!! I like Fish version to, both are great singers

[alexandergenov1984]

Without Fish, the stage of Marillion will be always empty.

[angelofdeathriko]

absolutely

[lookingfortalent2007]

I wonder if Fish never meant to break Marillion's heart?

[gowestward1]

Good question! To this day, there is still some resentment between band members. Remember commenting on the superb works on Fish's solo albums to one of the Marillion crew at a show in 2004...as you can guess...the reception to my comment....not tooo good!

[uncleambient]

H is prettier...

[zardalu]

One thing Fish did was connecting songs together. "I was wrong... so very wrong"... to connect Kayleigh and Lavender. Or the way he connected both sides of the "Misplaced" album together. Or how he told this story before starting Incubus. An entire concert wrapped into just one song.

And the end of Lavender: I'm always walking in the park... always dreaming of a spark... from you...

Both Fish and Hogarth are amazing performers, VERY different. Wishing we could see the best of all of them...

[zardalu]

Fish performed magic with Marillion before he left. Steve Hogarth did a GREAT job when Fish left. At least on "Season's End" and "Brave". I salute both. But I wish there were a way to bring both Hogarth's and Fish's magic together with Marillion... . It would be the greatest ever.

[jimmywires500]

There is more emotion in Fish's vocals, more variety in articulation

[criticsare2apenny]

As Yorkshire Pudding goes with beef and chips go with fish (excuse the pun), so is SH connected with classics like Ocean Cloud and Fish with classics like these here. Nice to see him have a go, and I`m sure the crowd expect some of the old stuff, but it`s like watching Michael Phelps trying to play football. I`m 50/50 on the eternal Fish-Hogarth war - except here.

[yorkiemarillion]

Kind of agree with that a bit - but this show was in 1989, just after Hogarth joined the band - so he only had 1 album of his own stuff to perform.

Now that Hogarth's version of Marillion have recorded 11 studio albums (check out the latest - Happiness is the Road) he tends to leave the old Fish stuff alone (except on special occasions).

[BastionOfFinality]

Dare I say it; h sings it as good as Fish.

[ThrasherBG]

Hoggarth is great,BUT Fish is GOD. ;)

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[danimal97520]

Couldn't agree more. Fish is God! I like Hogarth...but Marillion isn't the same without Fish.

[Simodab]

thanks for posting it

[chamamaiden]

It's the first time that i hear these songs on the voice of Steve H., and sounds really fantastic!

[SandraBudewell]

Hogarth performs this songs 100%better than Fish.

[Navarro777]

Decent version of this tune but blasphemous for them to do it without Fish! H is cool but I haven't bought a CD with him on it yet....'nough said huh?!

[jthomas0]

you have to hear some of his albums, there amazing, better then fish era some of it. check out 'marbles'

[steezie18]

i was at this gig. it was amazing. jamie watts

[Drworm]

I like how H sings Kayleigh. Sure, he's not Fish but he makes it his own. I can't believe how long H has been in the band! It makes me feel old.

[grendel151]

I don't think it is right for H to sing fish's stuff.

Fish wrote those songs based on some of his perosnal experiences, and if H is singing them, then it's pretending that he's lived thoe experiences....anyone agree?

[hybridalienrob]

They rarely perform any pre-H songs live any more, thank god. This video was taken of the 1991 tour and they'd only done one album with him at that point so they were bound to do Kayleigh etc.

[mACKs94]

@grendel151 I agree!

[ravagebang]

Each song written by Fish that Hogart sing, turns him into a forgotten singer.

[pagach1]

jthomas: better than fish???hahahaha.....you must be a junkie:)

[anonbg]

Lavender just isn't the same. And I wish H wouldn't do the gesticulations. We ain't kids.

[jthomas0]

BETTER THEN FISH!!!

[halfordsss]

good, but nothing compares to the original!

[Rael21]

Seasons End, Brave, Afraid of the sunlight, even Holidays in Eden are very nice albums from the Hogarth era. But the lasts Marillion albums are really boring (Maybe Anoraknophobia is a little exception)

[jacodance]

I like it, he is not trying to imitate fish, he sings on his own way

[alexandergenov1984]

Fish is Fish!That's all!

[JestersTear1]

Band are fantastic but H sucks when doing Fish stuff.