Welcome to the Garden Party
| "Welcome to the ‚Garden Party‘" | ||||
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| Single by Marillion | ||||
| from the album Script for a Jester's Tear | ||||
| A-side | "Garden Party" (7") | |||
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| Released | July 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1983, 1984, 1986 | |||
| Genre | Neo-prog | |||
| Label | EMI Electrola | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Fish, Steve Rothery, Pete Trewavas, Mick Pointer, Mark Kelly | |||
| Producer(s) | Nick Tauber (7") Marillion and Simon Hanhart (12" A-side) / Marillion and Mark Freegard (12" B-side) | |||
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"Welcome to the ‚Garden Party‘"
While the 7" single contained the edited studio version of "Garden Party" also found on the original 1983 7" single (on which the line I'm fucking was replaced with I'm miming to avoid airplay problems), the A-side of the 12" single featured a live recording made at
The cover was, as usual, designed by Mark Wilkinson and features artwork based on promotional material for the band's series of open-air concerts in the summer of 1986. As the band did not release any new material domestically in year following their commercial breakthrough, both this single and Brief Encounter were in demand by fans in the UK and thus widely stocked by record shops as imports. Today it is a sought-after collectors' item.
Having been released in Germany only, "Welcome to the Garden Party" was not part of the collectors box-set released in July 2000 and was re-issued as a 3-CD set in 2009 (see
Track listing
7" version
Side A
- "Garden Party" (edited version)—4:29 (Dick/Rothery/Kelly/Trewavas/Pointer)
Side B
- "Market Square Heroes"(edited re-recorded version)—03:58 (Dick/Rothery/Kelly/Trewavas/Pointer)
12" version
Side A
- "Garden Party" (live)—6:56 (Dick/Rothery/Kelly/Trewavas/Pointer)
Side B
- "Kayleigh" (live version)—4:10 (Dick/Rothery/Kelly/Trewavas/Mosley)
- "Script for A Jester's Tear" (live)—8:50 (Dick/Rothery/Kelly/Trewavas/Pointer)
Personnel
- Fish – vocals
- Steve Rothery - guitars
- Mark Kelly - keyboards
- Pete Trewavas - bass, backing vocals
- Ian Mosley - drums on "Garden Party" (live) / "Kayleigh" / "Script for A Jester's Tear"
- Mick Pointer - drums on "Garden Party" (edited version)
- John Marter - drums on "Market Square Heroes"
Notes
- ^ sic—German-style quotation marks (opening marks on bottom line)