Artist: FISH
Album: FELLINI DAYS REMASTERED (DIGI)

Year: 2001/ 2007
Media type: CD

‘... the indefatigable Scot's ability to deliver remains undiminished.’ KKKK Kerrang!

A Fellini Day is "a near perfect day during which time has no real meaning", made up of a collection of Fellini moments during which poet and singer Derek William Dick takes time to "savour the non-essential aspects of life..."
But it sounds unlikely here that Fish has been stopping to smell the roses. Some 20 years after his debut with Marillion, he is still preoccupied with relationships (mostly ravaged ones), all presumably his own. And it seems that once again there's been trouble in paradise. The loping and lovely 'Our Smile' talks of an illicit affair, while the brooding 'Long Cold Day', the forlorn 'Dancing in Fog' and the heartbroken 'Obligatory Ballad' lay bare the details of some particularly miserable break-up. Having long ago cast into exile the ghosts of prog-rock, Fish ushers guitars and female singers to the fore and blends his trademark poetry into the spacious but claustrophobic, almost Waitsian '3D', the blues-rock weight of 'Long Cold Day' and the gathering dramas of 'Tiki 4', 'The Pilgrim's Address' and the slowly creeping 'Clock Moves Sideways'.

Carol Clark (Classic Rock), Aug 14 2001

TRACKLIST:

1. 3D
2. So Fellini
3. Tiki 4
4. Our Smile
5. Long Cold Day
6. Dancing In Fog
7. Obligatory Ballad
8. The Pilgrims Address
9. Clock Moves Sideways

LINE-UP:

Derek W Dick (Fish) (lead vocals)
Dave Haswell Percussion
Zoe Nicholas Vocals (bckgr)
Dave Stewart Drums
Steve Vantsis Bass
Susan Webb Vocals (bckgr)
John Wesley Guitar
John Young Keyboards