He joined British progressive rock superstars Marillion in 1989, and yet to many people Steve Hogarth is still the ‘new boy’. With the band’s latest album An Hour Before It’s Dark just released, he talks about spending half his life in the group, and tackling climate change and the pandemic in lyric form when you’re really trying to steer clear of it. He also recalls how Deep Purple got him into this rock’n’roll lark in the first place, when he was supposed to be in training as an engineer.
Marillion are on their nineteenth album. How did that happen?
Opinion is divided, because, and we did , and I don’t know if that’s included. It’s eighteen, nineteen, twenty… we’ve all lost count.
