Marillion announce dates for eight Weekend events for 2025

Marillion
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Marillion have announced dates and destinations for their award-winning Weekends, which will once again take place in 2025. The dates include the band's final appearance in Port Zelande, which will last for five days (the site will be refurbished following the band's appearance), and Weekend debuts in France, Spain and Norway

The eight events will take place at Port Zelande (March 12-16), Montreal (March 28-30), Paris (April 11-12), Girona (April 25-26), Padua (May 9-10), Leicester (May 24-25), Oslo (June 13-14) and Berlin (June 20-21). There are no further details available at the moment, but information will be revealed on the band's special Weekends website in the near future.

At the same time the band have shared a brand new live clip of The Crow And The Nightingale, which you can watch below. The clip is taken from their upcoming live release, An Hour Before It’s Dark: Live In Port Zélande 2023, which will be released through earMusic on June 21.

The new release was recorded during Marilion's award-winning Weekend at Port Zélande Center Parcs in The Netherlands, which ran from from March 17 -19 in 2023. 

An Hour Before It’s Dark: Live in Port Zélande 2023 will be physically available as a triple heavyweight vinyl, as a 2CD digipak, a Blu-ray digipak and as a DVD digipak. You can see the artwork and tracklisting below.

Pre-order An Hour Before It’s Dark: Live in Port Zélande 2023.

Marillion: An Hour Before It's Dark: Live in Port Zelande 2023 tracklist

CD Disc 1
1: Be Hard On Yourself
2: Reprogram the Gene
3: Only a Kiss (Instrumental)
4: Murder Machines
5: The Crow and the Nightingale
6: Sierra Leone
7: Care

CD Disc 2
1: Estonia
2: Afraid of Sunlight
3: Go!
4: The Space
5: Zeperated Out


Blu-Ray/DVD

An Hour Before It's Dark
Be Hard On Yourself
Reprogram The Gene
Only A Kiss
Murder Machines
The Crow And The Nightingale
Sierra Leone
Care  

Encores
Estonia
Afraid of Sunlight
Go!
The Space
Zeparated Out

Extras - Sunday 19Th March 2023 (Part One)
River
Bridge
Living with the Big Lie
Runaway
The Hollow Man
Born to Run
White Paper
Sugar Mice
Genie

An Hour Before It's Dark: Live in Port Zelande 2023 cover art

(Image credit: earMusic)
Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.