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New Year's resolutions for F & M

Originally posted to Freaks list: 4 Jan 99

So, here are the New Year's Resolutions for Fish and Marillion. As with the "10 Things..." lists, they are all genuine....... Honest.

Fish:

1. I am going to give up drinking. Well,.... except for socially. Or at home.

2. I am never, ever going to wear those glue-on hair extensions from YPGtBaRS again. It is too upsetting to remember how things used to be....

3. I am going to fucking sue Phish for stealing my name. And maybe that weatherman off the telly as well....

h:

1. This year I am going to buy some looser underwear, and allow myself to return to my natural Tom Waits-style singing voice. I don't want to end up like Jon Anderson, and have to rely on that little pump-up thing you keep in your pocket....

2. It's time for yet more stage-clothes. This year I'm going to introduce strange druid-type robes into the stage show. And maybe start wearing grease-paint....

3. This is the year I am going to get my fingers sewn back on properly, so I don't have to wear those stupid bandages all the time.

Steve:

1. I am going to go on a diet - I'm sick of hearing the same joke from Mark every time I get out the double-neck guitar: "That's right - two necks, for two chins". Bald bastard.

2. I am going to learn the slide guitar. That way I get to sit down on stage occasionally, which should help the gout...

3. This is the year I am finally going to crack the guitar part for "Streets of London" - even kids of 7 years old can play it, and I have never quite got it right.

Pete:

1. Time to break into acting this year. If Fish can do it, so can I. I reckon I'd be perfect for the part of Tigger in the new production of Winnie the Pooh. Bounce? - I can bounce!

2. I am going to learn to stand on one leg whilst playing without falling off the stage. I'm sick of being laughed at. And having bruises.

3. And this year I am determined to get a lead vocal. 18 years of singing backing vocals, and they've never even offered me a lead. Hey, Phil Collins got to have a go after only a couple of years with Genesis, and he hasn't done badly off it.

Mark:

1. I will tell h where I hid his magic gloves. I think I've made my point by now.

2. I am never, ever going drinking with Fish again. Ever. Especially after he and Erik chucked me down that well. In my own house, for God's sake.

3. I am going to unsusbcribe from Freaks if anyone else makes a joke about me being a slaphead.

Ian:

1. I am going to get to the Post Office on time to collect my pension each Tuesday. Even if it means queuing.

2. I must get a bigger drum kit

[Editor's note - this is a New Year's resolution that Ian has made, and stuck by, every year since 1932]

3. I will learn the drum part to Grendel....... if I can work out the time signatures. There's one bit that's almost 4/4, but it's more like 4.01/4. How did Mick Pointer do that?