Marillion Weekend 2011 - The Brazilian Diary

Marillion Weekend 2011 - The Brazilian Diary

I had spent fourteen years waiting. Days, months and years spent dreaming. Dreaming and imagining the reunion between myself and Marillion.  It would be a reunion that reason would not understand, a reunion made of pure, immeasurable love.

Hare they are !!!! Are you ready to wear it ? :)

You And Marillion - Mona Bergum son Story

Tomorrow on the 17th of March,at 12 noon in 1981,I gave birth to my son Morten  has always loved music and at the age of 7, I introduced him to Marillion .

As the years went by  he grew bigger and became a teenager. His relationship with Marillion started when I bought the "Seasons End" CD. He and his little sister Maren, loved the new lead singer Steve Hogarth! "Unninvited Guest","Easter" and so on...They had some new 

Idols in their lives.

8 Days !!! Marillion - Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven)

You And Marillion - The Sirens Song, Mona Bergum Story

Norway, the magical land where ancient mountains lie down in the sea like sirens singing life melodies. Answering their song, Marillion shed their music into Mona Bergum life.
 
A divorce is the brutal mark of the end of story. Among tears, memories, bureaucracy, struggle an LP was left behind. When the new beginning knocked on Mona's door, the old friend destiny made her find the "Clutching at Straws" left behind by her ex-husband to open her "Incommunicado" heart. "Sugar Mice" expressed what her heart could not say in that moment, that her soul was embraced by love again. An inexplicable passion for those guitar chords was born. A remarriage emerge, Marillion marriage, and this one would never end. Mona tried to spread "the everything is going to be fine"  feeling with her kids by playing no stop Marillion music. Unfortunately, for her kids at that time the silence was the best music being played. Time is wise and it decided that Mona need a whole pause from the Marillion marriage to rebuild their relationship.
 
"One fine Day", while walking on the street Mona heard the sirens calling again, this time, from inside a music shop. A new voice in the same perfect song lines, telling her not to be "Afraid Of Sunlight". Her heart raced, hands sweat, chills down her spine and Mona`s soul was taken by the emotion of finding an old love.   
She came back home with that "Uninvited Guest", but at this time was "Sympathy" at first sight. Mona was touched, her kids were enjoying the maximum present a mother can provide, love manifested trough music and now it would "Live Forever". Plunged into  Marillions sensitivity sea the kids found one of the reasons of worth living, music. 
 
When life paraded its art of meeting, Mona found love again. That was the time for her "Splintering Heart" walk into the "Fantastic Place" called love. Trough those hours passed in the tenderness shadow, "100 Nights" of endless love. The fed dreams, shared moments, eternal conversations and stimulants challenges were accompanied with the trilling Marillion`s electric symphony. "The Party" live performance started for the family, and it repeated several times. In every Gig they shared "Hope For The Future" certain that "Happiness Is The Road".   
 
By becoming woman, Mona became "Brave" and faced her "Runaway" girl past with eyes of grace. The grace to recognize that she was a mature woman, who sometimes needed to be "Made Again". The grace to recognize that the "Brave" woman sometimes feels like a naive child. The grace of being free, strong, and "Beautiful".
 
This year her body will stay in Norway while her spirit will be "Somewhere Else". It will be flying at the Holland Convention.

Mona`s Facebook

We would like to thank Mona for allow us to tell her story.

A message from Mark Kelly.

We love sports like we love Marillion, that`s why we have a special request for those who also love sports. Please read Mark`s message and let us know if you are coming.

A message from Mark Kelly.

"On Saturday morning at 10am I am organising a Marillion fun run for well..

erm..fun! We will meet up in the main square in front of the Adventure

Factory wearing silly running kit and nursing hangovers to run two 5k laps

around the site. The less fit can quit after one lap and the really fit can

head off down the coast for a few hours and tell the rest of us how it went

later in the bar. I you are interested in joining me please send me an email

to runningfool@marillion.com and I will add you to my list and send you

begging emails to sponsor my London marathon run in April"

Come on lets run! Women and Marillion Runner team ! :)

Phone and Flight List! Getting together at PZ convention!

Dear Marillion Lovers,

For those who are going to the PZ Convention we are making a phone and flight list, for us to get together.
If you feel like, please send us an message with the time that you arrive and your phone number. Once you arrive we will call you.
 

Lets get together!

Karen Parkhurst, Walking In The “Fantastic Place”

“Whatever is wrong with you, is so right for me”. What is wrong in being black, Jewish, immigrant, blind, deaf or needing a wheelchair? The blind see the world’s beauty through music, deaf listen to poetry through paint, and the disabled strive to overcome. That was exactly what Karen did at the Happiness is the Road 2008 tour gig in Bournemouth, when she went in her wheelchair. Breaking paradigms, challenging physics, being “Brave”, parading “Sympathy”, Karen let Marillion music embrace her soul in celebration of a inseparable love.

Holland Countdown, 27 days!!

Are you coming? Want to join our corner?
Please send us a message with your e-mail and we will make a list of all Women And Marillion followers who are going to the Holland Convention.
Let's get together and have an amazing time!

You And Marillion - Heidi Huff Story

My name is Heidi Huff and I grew up in Minnesota (USA).  I was in high school the first time I heard Marillion.  I think it was 1988.  Tod, a boy I knew from school surprised me one day at the McDonalds where we worked by giving me a cassette tape including most of “Clutching at Straws”.   I am not sure why he did that, but I am so glad he did.

Laura Lulu in "When I Met God"

Sardinia, the Mediterranean emerald stuck in "The Space" between the Italian and Iberian peninsulas. A "Fantastic Place", where Laura Lulu found the music rare jewel, reflected into Marillion songs. As Laura mentioned," their music embraced my life like a warm sun, on a winter morning".

You And Marillion - The Journey

The eighties, in a small music shop a LP cover lost on the sale box, looking like a mysterious psycho painting, calls your attention: Marillion. The sales man, wearing a Bowie t-shirt, red leader pants, with a new wave hair cut, says  that the album is very good and you will have a pleasure journey.
 

At home, the new portable orange record player is about to rotate the sound that will change your life. The endless virtuosity journey invades your inside, and you decide that it will never leave. You wonder, how could that work of art, be half price? Was the world getting that artificial not to recognize such talent, or was this something so unique to be share with anyone? You are not sure about anyone, but there is certain someone that will enjoy the journey with you. Your best friend, and you cannot wait to share precious moments delighting in Marillion music, with he/she. You hide the new treasure in the deepest corner of your soul, because if anyone starch it, will be a pronounced dead. A couple cents latter you by your first Walkman, and that is a dream. The  "Lavender" walks in the park where majestic, except for the pen rewind tape exercise. 
 

Postcard From Holland

“No one can” resist - Rachel Woud Story

It arrives without excuses, without warning, taking account of our lives, souls and hearts, and no one wants or can deny, love. That is how love and Marillion get into peoples lives and that is what happened with Rachel Woud when love and Marillion kidnapped her to Holland.

The Marillion music echoing in Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the melting pot of diversity, the dizzying samba rhythm, the warmth of people's simplicity , an aspiring writer danced with the words lulled by Seasons End.

Once upon a time, a little girl named Lesli Olsson, moved by a writer's blood running through her veins, started to copy her old sisters poetry. “One fine day”, when  Lesli  was performing her daily copy ritual, her sister opens the door for Lesli's talent to finally emerge. Her sister took her by the hand, gave Lesli a notebook and told her: “if you want to write, do not copy, do it yourself and just let it flow”. Years later in 1990, Lesli, her sister and 85.000 people were touched by Marillions trilling performance at the Hollywood Rock Festival.

Tell us what your story with Marillion

Dear Marillion Lovers,

As we all know, Marillion is far to be a conventional rock and roll band,  and  that is one of the main reasons why they had touched and inspiring millions. They manage to be part of people lives, and their music has marked special moments in people's history. We would like to tell  your story with Marillion, in a poetical way given them the opportunity to be touched by your story as their music touched your heart.

If you fell like, send us a message with your story, we will write it, send you back for the approval, and if it is okf for you, publish at Facebook, here and  Twitter. Once you are at the Convention if you have the oportunity ask the guys to  check your stories.

 Check our first story here

Holidays In Eden changing lives in Patagonia

Patagonia, is a small paradise in the southernmost corner of the world. In this small piece of the world where Mother Nature imposes all its majesty, Marillion crossed the Atlantic ocean with its blue wave Holiday In Eden and hit the heart of the lovely teenager Cintia Muros.

Have you being to one or more convention?

Hello Marillion Lovers, 


Have you being to one or more convention? 
Do you have a tip to share with us?
If you  have, please post it  here.
The do`s and don`ts that everyone should know.
What do  you think Women And Marillion followers, must know before arrive.
We will publish a list with all your tips.
Please help us, to help you! 


Marillion Weekend Port Zélande, Netherlands 25-28 March 2011

Tell Us The Song That You Would Like Marillion To Play For You At The Convention

Dear Marillion Lovers

Please let us know, what song you  would like Marillion to play for you at  the Holland Convention.
We will deliver a list with the top 10 voted songs and ask the guys to play for you.
Vote!
Women And Marillion
Spreading the Marillion music into the female world
  

Are you Going to the Holland Convention? We want to Interview you for our documentary, and need you for our Oficial Website Picture!

Dear Marillion Lovers,
 
If you are  going to the Holland Convention, we would love to have you in our documentary.
As part of the web site launching, we will  realise a documentary about The Women Stories With Marillion. 

All you need to do is tell us what is your story with Marillion. You will be able to check it in our you tube channel. We will be at the CenterParcs front door with the Women And Marillion range, waiting for you. 

Women And Marillion: Spreading Marillion Music Into The Female World

Has been said, that women tend to like pop and commercial music. This is a myth that this space want to broke, spreading the appreciation of intelligent, independent, beautiful, and special women, for Marillion music.
Women who transcend their souls, drowned into the spectacular sound trip proportional by Marillion.

This space is dedicated for all these wonderful women who are happy for having Marillion music as part of their history.

Our main goal is to spread Marillion music to as many women as possible and share our passion  for their music.

For that, we would like to ask your support in two little significant things:

1 - Follow Us here on Facebook, and you tube;

2 - Share our channels with your friends.

Join Us! Lets spread Marillion music into the female world.