Marillion Named Be Prog! My Friend Festival Headliners

(Prog) Marillion have been announced as the Friday night headliner at this year's Be Prog! My Friend festival in Barcelona. The UK prog rockers, currently riding high in the charts with new album FEAR, the band's highest charting UK album since 1987's Clutching At Straws will perform on Friday June 30.

They join fellow headliners Jethro Tull, who perform on Saturday July 1 and Ulver, Anathema, Animals As Leaders and Caligula's Horse who have previously been announced.

Festival organizers say: "Marillion's music is, by its nature, tough to sum-up but perhaps can be described as experimental-yet-emotional rock, married to thought provoking, soulful lyrics - a powerful and moving cocktail which, for those who "get it", elicits extraordinary devotion." Read more here.

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