This line-up only played one gig, at Southall’s Hanborough Tavern, at the tail-end of 1978. Me and Doug had a lot of our own material we were working on and it was all instrumental.” Very fleetingly, but it was a bit of a moment for us. “…Camel! They would come in and watch us. “We had this rehearsal room, and in the other room happened to be…” “We used to rehearse in the Princes Risborough area,” Pointer recalls. Camel, with whom Irvine and Pointer shared a mutual love, became their main reference point. The early line-up was Irvine (bass) and Pointer (drums), keyboard player Neil Cockle and guitarist Martin Jenner. Inspired by a Tolkien book that Irvine had, the new outfit called themselves Silmarillion. Except they weren’t called Marillion back then. So me and him said let’s form our own band, and put our own guys together that would suit what we’re attempting and trying to do.”Īnd in one fell swoop, Marillion were born. We spent all the time together just mapping out where we’d like to go, like everybody does when they’re young. “As usual with most of these things, everything was done down at the pub. “I got along particularly well with Doug,” Pointer says.
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