8 April 2002 (mail order, 2 discs) 22 April 2002 (retail, 1 disc)
Recorded
19–22 May 2001, Manchester Academy, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, London Forum
Genre
Progressive rock
Length
70:24 (retail, 1 disc)
Label
Racket Records (mail order, 2 discs) EMI
Producer
Dave Meegan
Marillion chronology
Anoraknophobia (2001)
Anorak in the UK (2002)
The Best of Marillion (2003)
Anorak in the UK is a live album by Marillion released in April 2002 and documenting the previous year's Anoraknophobia tour. Most songs were recorded on three nights in May 2001 (Manchester Academy, 19 May, Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 20 May, London Forum, 22 May) using a mobile studio, while two tracks ("When I Meet God" and "This is the 21st Century") were recorded in front of a small private audience at the band's own studio after the October leg of the tour.
The album was released in two versions: A two-disc set only distributed via Marillion's own mail-order business, and a one-disc retail edition distributed by EMI. Under this deal, EMI required the band to provide one exclusive song on the retail edition that would not be found on the two-disc version. The band chose "Easter" from 1989, as it is available on several previous official and semi-official live albums and therefore would not "force" fans to purchase both versions of the album. Anorak in the UK is Marillion's first official retail live album since Made Again (1996), and the second with Steve Hogarth. The title takes its cues from the Sex Pistols single "Anarchy in the U.K." and, self-mockingly, the British slang term anorak (a person with unfathomable interest in arcane, detailed information regarded as boring by the rest of the population) often applied to Marillion fans. The cover shows a crowd consisting of "Barry" featured on Anoraknophobia.
Recordings drawn from three UK shows in May were documented on the live album AnorakintheUK (2002). For the October leg of the tour, the band held a vote, asking...
made from caribou or seal skin, for hunting and kayaking inthe frigid Arctic. Some Inuit anoraks require regular coating with fish oil to retain their water...
Anoraknophobia. The band released its fourth live album, entitled AnorakintheUK, in 2002. April 2002 marked a new era of Marillion fandom. The band decided...
worked with the Rolling Stones. Misplaced Childhood is the group's most commercially successful album, peaking immediately at number one intheUK charts and...
reached number 7 intheUK Albums Chart. Hogarth said in 2012: "Holidays was probably the most commercial album overall that we made or had the greatest amount...
the number one album Misplaced Childhood, spending 15 weeks on theUK album chart (the shortest chart residency of any of Marillion's first four studio...
achieved over 20 UK Top 40 singles, including four which reached the Top 10. They have released nine albums which reached the Top 10 of theUK Albums Chart...
Biography". Farndale, Nigel (19 November 2006). "A man in touch with his inner anorak". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2018. "About Jools". Joolsholland...
"Eighty Days". For the first time inthe band's history, no song cracked theUK Top 40; the first single reached number 98 and the second one failed to...
2024. "Anorak of Fire". Left Lion. Retrieved 25 December 2023. Wilson Ken. "ANORAK OF FIRE". The Wee Review. Retrieved 25 December 2023. "Anorak of Fire"...
notes for White Boys, Brown Girl by Kill City, p. 1–4 [booklet]. Belgium: Anorak Supersport (ANO030CD). "Rip It Up, Razorlight single". Warrington Guardian...
Headquarters where he reveals that Anorak has altered the behavior of the NPCs so that they can kill off other avatars in both PvP and non-PvP zones and loot...
associated with twee pop were Sarah Records (intheUK) and K Records (inthe US). Cub, which was dubbed the "most confrontationally twee band of them all"...
Sunlight was the first Marillion studio album to fail to reach the Top 10 intheUK Albums Chart, peaking at number 16 and falling out of the Top 75 after...
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