FISH THE FINAL FAREWELL TOUR ‘ROAD TO THE ISLES 2024/2025’ UK DATES ANNOUNCED TODAY!

FISH, the icon of progressive rock and much acclaimed artist, singer, musician, front man and lyricist extraordinaire recently announced that he will be embarking on his farewell ‘Road To The Isles’ tour across Europe later this year. With many shows instantly selling out, nine new shows have now been added across the EU, and today the UK dates for 2025 have finally been announced.
 
Bidding a final goodbye to the music industry after four decades of hits, memories and touring, FISH will be playing thirteen celebratory and emotional shows across England and Scotland, starting in Haddington his home of many years and taking in many towns and cities including Aylesbury, where his music career started with Marillion, and a landmark show at London’s Palladium Theatre. The tour finishes in Glasgow with a rousing last-ever show, which will conclude FISH’s extraordinary career as a live performer.
 
“I’ve been amazed at the response to the tour”, says FISH, “and the sales in the first week in Europe were phenomenal, so much so that dates had to be added to deal with the unprecedented demand. It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to take a bow on such a high and with the UK dates going on sale this week and finally closing the circle I’m sure it’s going to be an emotional finale.”
 
UK DATES 2025
Wed Feb 19^th 2025     Corn Exchange, HADDINGTON, SCO
Fri Feb 21^st 2025         Albert Hall, MANCHESTER, ENG
Sat Feb 22^nd 2025       The Halls, WOLVERHAMPTON, ENG
Sun Feb 23^rd 2025       Guildhall, PORTSMOUTH, ENG
Tues Feb 25^th 2025     The Palladium, LONDON, ENG
Wed Feb 26^th 2025     Beacon, BRISTOL, ENG
Fri Feb 28^th 2025         Waterside, AYLESBURY, ENG
Sat Mar 1^st 2025         Corn Exchange, CAMBRIDGE, ENG
Sun Mar 2^nd 2025        Rock City, NOTTINGHAM, ENG
Wed Mar 5^th 2025      Philharmonic, LIVERPOOL, ENG
Thurs Mar 6^th 2025     O2 City Hall, NEWCASTLE, ENG
Fri Mar 7^th  2025         Music Hall, ABERDEEN, SCO
Sun Mar 9^th 2025        O2 Academy, GLASGOW, SCO
 
PRE-SALE                    O2 Priority Pre-sale Wednesday February 28^th
                                    Planet Rock & Aloud Pre-sale Thursday February 29^th
 
PUBLIC ON SALE         Friday March 1^st        
TICKETS                       https://www.fishmusic.scot
 
“Nominating a tour as a ‘farewell tour’ has a certain amount of gravitas,” commented FISH on the announcement of the European shows, “and I’m so glad that I have managed to bring together a ‘best of’ line up of musicians from across my live career to come out on the bus with me on my final sortie out on the road. They’re not just highly talented musicians but old friends and co-writers of some of the finest songs I’ve released in the 35 years as a solo artist.
 
“I don’t want to be sticking to the same setlist every night and there are so many potential songs for the set we all felt that having a moveable feast was the way forward. The setlist will be covering 12 solo albums and of course there will be material from my time with Marillion. There’s a few epics from that time that I’d be remiss if I ignored and to be honest, I’m actually looking forward to revisiting a couple of those tracks. The band members have all played them at one time or another and are all more than capable of delivering fantastic renditions across the board. It’s going to be actually quite exciting revisiting a lot of the material with this historical line-up.”
 
The ‘Road To The Isles’ tour is inspired by the fact that Fish and his wife Simone are retiring to a croft they have taken over on an island in the Outer Hebrides. They are permanently moving to the Western Isles at the end of this year and Fish is selling the former recording studio and house in Haddington, East Lothian in May after living there since he left Marillion in 1988. 
 
“We have been working on our move for the last year, renovating the croft house and literally preparing the ground for our new home. I’ll still be creating and writing on the island and there’s that elusive autobiography to be written as well as other projects involving music in some shape or another. With the ‘Farewell Tour’ I’m calling a halt to ‘big band’ road work and traversing the globe in the back of a bus and I’m going to be concentrating on growing vegetables and looking after sheep. There’s a great sense of circles being closed with all aspects of the tour and the album releases this year and I’m enjoying the sense of completion that it brings to this current stage in my life as I literally move on to new pastures. It’s a wonderful feeling.”
 
‘ROAD TO THE ISLES’ EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
 
Wed Oct 2^nd 2024       Centre Culturel Opderschmelz, DUDELANGE, LUX (SOLD OUT)
Fri  Oct 4^th 2024          Muziekgieterij, MAASTRICHT, NL (SOLD OUT)
Sat Oct 5^th 2024          Muziekcentrum, ENSCHEDE, NL (SOLD OUT)
Sun Oct 6^th 2024         Oosterpoort, GRONINGEN, NL (SOLD OUT)
Tues Oct 8^th 2024        Tivoli Vrendenburg, UTRECHT, NL (SOLD OUT)
Wed Oct 9^th 2024       Tivoli Vrendenburg, UTRECHT, NL (SOLD OUT)
Thurs Oct 10^th 2024    Grosse Freiheit 36, HAMBURG, DE
Fri Oct 11^th 2024         Carlswerk Viktoria, COLOGNE, DE
Sun Oct 13^th 2024       Im Wisemaan, STUTTGART, DE
Tues Oct 15^th 2024      Volkhaus, ZURICH, CH
Wed Oct 16^th 2024     Muffathalle, MUNICH, DE
Thurs Oct 17^th 2024    Arena, WIEN, AU
Sat Oct 19^th 2024        A2, WROCLAW, PL
Sun Oct 20^th 2024       Progeresjam, WARSAW, PL
Mon Oct 21^st 2024      Studio, KRAKOW, PL
Tues Oct 22^nd 2024     Srtary Manez, GDANSK, PL
Thurs Oct 24^th 2024    Rockefeller, OSLO, NOR
Sat Oct 26^th 2024        Byscenen, TRONDHEIM, NOR
Mon Oct 28^th 2024     Pustervik, GOTHENBURG, SW
Tues Oct 29^th 2024      Berns, STOCKHOLM, SW
Wed Oct 30^th 2024     Amager Bio, COPENHAGEN, DK
Fri Nov 1^st 2024           Alter Schlachtof, DRESDEN, DE
Sat Nov 2^nd 2024         Tollhaus, KARLSRUHE, DE
Sun Nov 3^rd 2024        Metropol, BERLIN, DE
 
9 NEW EUROPEAN SHOWS ADDED DUE TO PHENOMENAL DEMAND
Tues Nov 5^th 2024       La Madeleine, BRUSSELS, BL
Wed Nov 6^th 2024       Trix, ANTWERP, BL
Thurs Nov 7^th 2024     Philharmonie, HAARLEM, NL
Sat Nov 9^th 2024         Muziekgebouw, EINDHOVEN, NL
Sun Nov 10^th 2024      Muziekgieterij, MAASTRICHT, NL
Tues Nov 12^th 2024     Capital, HANNOVER, DE
Wed Nov 13^th 2024     Batschkapp, FRANKFURT, DE
Fri Nov 15^th 2024        FZW, DORTMUND, DE
Sat Nov 16^th  2024      Centre Culturel Opderschmelz, DUDELANGE, LUX
 
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VIGIL IN A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS AND INTERNAL EXILE – DELUXE EDITIONS
 
Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors and Internal Exile both remixed by Calum Malcolm in 2024, will be available in a 4 audio CD and a BluRay disc set containing Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mixes, documentaries, and full concerts from 90-91 all in a 100-page hardback book, in a slipcase featuring extensive sleeve notes by Fish, artwork by Mark Wilkinson and photos and images from the periods. Sleeve designs are by Steve Vantsis .The deluxe versions will be exclusively available on fishmusic.scot and fishmusic.eu from April 2024 together with special vinyl editions of both the albums mastered at half speed by Barry Grint at Air studios and manufactured by Seabass vinyl in Scotland.
 
Currently available: the deluxe triple vinyl box sets of Feast of Consequences and 13th Star featuring 3 x 180gm vinyl discs and 12 inch full colour booklets and inserts in an engineered cardboard box and the deluxe CD/Blu Ray version of 13th Star with a 2023 remix by Calum Malcolm , 3 CD’s featuring the remix/original demos and live tracks together with a Blu ray disc with Dolby Atmos and 5.1 mixes , documentaries and other bonus material all in a hardback book with slipcase featuring extensive sleeve notes by Fish, artwork by Mark Wilkinson and previously unseen photos and images. Sleeve Designs by Steve Vantsis.
 
More information including track lists on the above titles can be found at www. fishmusic.scot and www.fishmusic.eu