Brave
Album by Marillion
Released	1994
Recorded	Marouatte Castle, France, November 1993 - August 1994
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	1 hour 11 min 08 sec (single-disc edition) 2 hours 03 min 01 sec (two-disc edition)
Record label	EMI
Producer	Dave Meegan
Professional reviews
Dprp.net	10 stars out of 10	Link
Marillion Chronology
Holidays In Eden (1991)	Brave (1994)	Afraid Of Sunlight (1995)

After the relatively weak predeccessor, Marillion figured it was time to go back to their roots and make a more progressive rock oriented album again. Brave is a concept album, based on something Steve Hogarth heard on the radio about a girl who were taken into police custody after she had been wandering the Severn Bridge. She did not know who she was, where she came from and refused to even speak. This inspired Steve to write a story about this girl which included terrible things happening to her. Album cover of the album Brave by Marillion Source: Dutch Progressive Pages This is an album cover. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Current lineup Marillion is a British progressive rock group formed in 1979. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... The progressive rock band Yes performing in 1977. ... The hour was originally defined in Egypt as 1/24 of a day, based on their duo-decimal numbering system (which counted finger joints on each hand). ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith, London, in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Dave Meegan is the producer normally utilized by the band Marillion. ... When it was time to regroup from the Seasons End Tour which had lasted almost a year, the band went into studio to record their next album. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... EMI was not happy with the relatively low album sales and wanted Marillion to again try to make a quick record to raise revenue. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Current lineup Marillion is a British progressive rock group formed in 1979. ... Usually, in popular music, an album of an artist or group simply consists of a number of unconnected songs that the members of the group or the artist have written or have chosen to cover. ... Steve Hogarth, also known as h, is the lead singer of Marillion. ... The Severn Bridge (Welsh: Pont Hafren) and the Second Severn Crossing (Welsh: Ail Groesfan Hafren) are two large bridges crossing the River Severn between England and Wales. ...

The band relocated to Marouatte castle in France for the duration of the recording of Brave. The influene of these surroundings can be heard throughout the album in a lot of haunting atmospherics. They even went into a cave which lay in the nearby area and taped some cave sounds which were used as background ambience on the album. As engineer, they got Dave Meegan whom had previously worked with Marillion on Fugazi. As for EMI, they really wanted the band to do a "quick record" to gain some revenue, but this project would escalate and escalate. It took the band nine months to write and produce this album, partly because of Dave who would go through every single new tape made every day each night listening for any riff or melody which sounded good enough to be included in the songs. This hard and tedious work paid off in the end. Dave Meegan is the producer normally utilized by the band Marillion. ... Fugazi is the second studio album of the progressive rock band Marillion. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith, London, in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ...

This album is widely regarded by most fans to be one of Marillion's best albums with Steve Hogarth as frontman. It was, however, no public hit due to EMI's lack of promotion and the fact that it had no real single potential. This was a concept piece after all, but still some singles were eventually released. These include Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury, The Hollow Man and The Great Escape.

In the liner notes of this record, it is promptly stated:

"Play it loud with the lights off."

Track List

1. Bridge - (2:55)
2. Living With The Big Lie - (6:46)
3. Runaway - (4:40)
4. Goodbye To All That - (12:26)
5. Hard As Love - (6:41)
6. The Hollow Man - (4:08)
7. Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury - (8:13)
8. Paper Lies - (5:47)
9. Brave - (7:56)
10. The Great Escape - (6:30)
11. Made Again - (5:02)

The 1998 remaster has the following additional tracks on the second CD:

1. The Great Escape (Orchestral Version) - (5:18)
2. Marouatte Jam - (9:44)
3. The Hollow Man (Acoustic) - (4:10)
4. Winter Trees - (1:47)
5. Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury (Acoustic) - (2:43)
6. Runaway (Acoustic) - (4:27)
7. Hard As Love (Instrumental) - (6:48)
8. Living With The Big Lie (Demo) - (5:12)
9. Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury (Demo) - (3:17)
10. Dream Sequence (Demo) - (2:36)
11. The Great Escape (Spiral Remake) - (5:48)

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External links

Comments by some of the band members (on the marillion.com band page):

• Steve Hogarth
• Steve Rothery
• Pete Trewavas