A particularly Marillion-y episode this week, as we address the potential setlist of the upcoming Marillion Weekends, the new Marillion YouTube show, which songs we'd choose to try and 'Marillion-ize' somebody, 'musical' concept albums versus suites of songs, and - most importantly - whether The Hard Shoulder harmed the overall reputation of Happiness Is The Road... 

Also: Sanja has a Richard stomach.

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Can AI replace humans when it comes to Marillion lyrics? Specifically, can it replace Fish, Steve Hogarth and - yes - even John Helmer?! This week, we conduct a strictly scientific experiment to find out. Plus! Marillion news! Mr Men! And faffing!

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The latest BYAMPOD is a bit of a mixed bag. It starts with a discussion about Peter Gabriel's first brand new music in over 20 years, and Steve Rothery's forthcoming solo tour, before delving into the past to look at a website update from 1997, plus reviews from the 80s of Marillion's VHS video collection, and Mick Wall's Market Square Heroes book...

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Happy New Year, BYAMPODders. We're back! And we've got news of Marillion's success in the Prog Magazine readers' poll, Transatlantic, the forthcoming Marillion Weekends, and even manage to squeeze in a few letters. 

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This week, we're blowing off steam after a run of heavy episodes... by drinking (though there's some debate over who has drunk the most). 

We also discuss Marillion's Half Empty/Full Jam, and whether it has a place on Happiness Is The Road Volume 1. We also read some of your letters. Oddly, it's a more focused episode than most of the ones we record sober, but we still manage to be a bit NSFW...

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We come to the end of The Road (Volume 1) in this ep, but before we get onto Marillion.. we spend the first 20 minutes discussing some listener feedback, whether it's okay to joke about certain topics, and humour as a coping mechanism. When we finally do get around to the album... that's when things really go off the rails. 

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There's something about Marillion's Happiness Is The Road which seems to bring out Paul and Sanja's reflective side, and in this episode they end up digging into the start of their own relationship, and how a relationship alone may not be enough to fill the hole in a person's heart. Also, a tangential discussion about self-love.

In addition to Nothing Fills The Hole, we also listen to Liquidity and Woke Up.

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We're continuing with the songs from Happiness Is The Road Volume 1, with Essence and Wrapped Up In Time. After settling down following early attempts to come up with a title for a Meat Loaf podcast, we talk in depth about being present in the now, grief, and nothing less than the meaning of life...

It might be one of our most open and emotionally honest episodes to date. 

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In this episode, we finally begin to delve into Volume One of Marillion's Happiness Is The Road, discussing the album's conception, its creation, and the first two tracks - Dreamy Street and This Train Is My Life.

Could this be Marillion's most underrated album?

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We start an epic look at Marillion's 15th album, Happiness Is The Road, with an analysis of the album's launch - and the band's controversial decision to put it out for free on peer-to-peer sites ahead of the physical release. Noses were put out of joint... but did Marillion have any other choice, and were fans right to react as they did?

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