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Christmas message from Steve Hogarth!

"Hello me hearties. I hope you've all had a good year. I wish you all a wicked Christmas and I hope your dreams come down the chimney and end up in your stockings. Have a party and try not to go to hospital for more than a day.
Love and feathers.
h
ps I was having a soda with Richard Barbieri last night and I think there's a fighting chance of us writing/recording together in 2000 ..so watch this space.."

2000 What's all that about? - Millennial Thoughts

Here are my heroes and zeros of this centuryand my predictions for the new millennium

Heroes

• All those who took a stand and kept their sense of humour
• Winston Churchill
• Nelson Mandela
• John Lennon
• The Dalai Lama for giggling
• Ian Dury and the Blockheads
• Alexander Fleming for discovering Antibiotics
• Marie Curie for Radium
• Bob Geldof
• Joni Mitchell
• The late great Jeff Buckley
• Iggy Pop, Tom Waits
• Neil Armstrong for standing on the moon and putting up with his kids playing Marillion. I wonder which was harder?..
• Dr Barnado and anyone who cares for the orphaned and homeless
• Vertically Challenged People: It's a drag being small but for rising above it: Prince, Napoleon Boneparte, Paul Scholes, Pete Trewavas
• My saviours
• The First Officer of the Tor Scandinavia in 1977 for saving my life
• My mum and dad for bringing me up. The Beatles for bringing me on. and my wife Dizzy Spell for giving me a life worth living

Villains

A few stick right out don't they?..

• Adolf Hitler
• Jo Stalin
• Saddam Hussein
• Augusto Pinochet who incredibly, lives in the lap of luxury on Wentworth golf course in England and is occasionally invited round for tea with Mrs Thatcher
• Boris Yeltsin
• Corporations buying and Engulfing everything to increase already enormous profits
• Marketing Men for lieing for a living
• Arms Dealers Mark Thatcher, Jonathan Aitken, British Nuclear Fuels
• My Personal villains
• Boy Bands, Girl Bands and their puppet master managers who invent them to make money. I grew up in the seventies and I really hoped we'd seen the last of the likes of The Bay City Rollers and the Osmonds but since 1997 we've seen little else.
• Alan Rickman. He's always a good villain.

Oh, And just for the record: 'Disco' is the scourge of the 20th century.

Predictions for the New Millennium

There are two scenarios. The first one, you wouldn't even want to know about, so I'll give you the second one:

• People will care for each other more than we have for a while.
• The rich nations will stop getting richer and the poor, poorer
• There will be more charity at national levels for countries to help each other.
• The great new innovators will be those who can find a way to make the world less cruel to the weak.
• The internet will become all pervasive and people of all nations will have freedom of information. Censorship will effectively cease. Don't worry. You can trust yourself.
• Russia will get rid of Yeltsin and it's dictators, and work it's way towards real democracy.
• America and we in the West who hang on to Americas coat-tails, will spend a little less time kneeling at the altar of capitalism and profit growth. We'll see the foolishness of this. America, while acknowledging its' differences, will make friends with the Russians and the Chinese.
• The British government and the general public will realise that cannabis is not a danger to society and legalise it. All other class A drugs will remain illegal.
• Kids and grown-ups will realise that cocaine makes them boring and irritable and stop taking it.
• Coca cola will cease to make soft drinks and donate it's entire global wealth to UNICEF. This will practically eliminate child poverty in many countries. The world will then have to cope with only drinking Pepsi.
• We will contact life in other galaxies. They will speak Welsh.
• U2 will make an album to rival Achtung Baby
• Radiohead won't split up
• Massive Attack will make a progressive album
• Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love will join the moonies and go away forever
• People out there will give Marillion another listen and discover that we are, in fact, one of the best bands in the World.

Marillion Online Chats

Saturday, 6 November
6:00pm EST (GMT -05:00)
America Online Live Chat Band Members - Steve Hogarth / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas

Sunday, 7 November
3:00pm EST (GMT -05:00)
Talk City / Artist Shop
Band Members - Steve Hogarth / Steve Rothery

Server: morechat.talkcity.com
Port: 7000
Channel: #@MusicArena

Monday, 8 November
5:00pm EST (GMT -05:00)
Yahoo! Rock Online
Band members - Steve Hogarth / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas

Tuesday, 9 November
6:00pm EST (GMT -05:00)
Trans World Entertainment
Band members - Steve Hogarth / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas

Tuesday, 16 November
8:00pm EST (PST -05:00)
House Of Blue
Pre-release listening party, with phone interview via AT@T Conferencing. 30 minute duration.
Band members - Steve Hogarth / Mark Kelly

Dave Gregory at Kosovaid concert

"Ice Cream Genius" and ex-XTC guitarist Dave Gregory and ex-XTC Barry Andrews keyboardist will be guesting with Swindow band the Refugees for the Kosovaid concert at the Oasis leisure centre on May 30th, 1999.

Box office: 01793 445401
Info: 01672 541015

The line up is as follows: Mike Scott (Waterboys) & friends, Midge Ure, Howard Jones band, John Otway, Refugees, Unity + more musical guests. Tickets are £15.

Message from Steve Hogarth!

"Hello Cats and Dogs,

Well that's two years running now that you all made my birthday a bit more special.
We muso types tend to feel the advancing years pretty keenly so any support is most gratefully received.
Here's hoping to scream at you soon!
Love and handstands
The Dinosaur Thing
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

Steve Hogarth on Gagliarchives

Steve Hogarth will join the Philadelphia based progressive rock program the GAGLIARCHIVES on a 1 hour special of Marillion's BRAVE on Saturday, February 13th, 1999. The BRAVE story will be in two parts. The second part will take place the following week, on February 20nd, 1999.