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1. Clutching Intro

Album Tracks:
 

1. Hotel Hobbies
2. Warm Wet Circles
3. That Time Of The Night
4. Just for the Record
5. White Russian
6. Incommunicado
7. Torch Song
8. Sláinte Mhath
9. Sugar Mice
10. The Last Straw
11. Happy Ending?

B-Sides:

1. Going Under
2. Tux On

Clutching At Straws - That Time of the Night

Introduction: From an unnamed article in No1 Magazine written by Debbie Voller on 30 May 1987, sent to me by Kristie English:

Fish: "It's about paranoia! Torch is shifting against all his vices and feeling paranoid and desperate to be near somebody. The night I started writing this I was in a hotel and I couldn't sleep, and outside the trees were moving and the moon was like flying through the window and sending shapes like crosses over the walls. And it suddenly meant something, y'know, I found myself thinking about religion and death - it was a well hairy night!"

'Free Fire'
(Cp. Assassing)

'Clutching the Short Straw'
Cocaine is often snorted via a short straw, frequently formed from a rolled bank note.

All of (Fish era) Marillion are said to have indulged this little fancy; I neither know nor particularly care if H does or not. Fish, as the public face of the band was known for his coke taking, something he documented in his CaS lyrics. He was once caught out by a paparazzi photographer after a heavy night on the booze only to appear on the front page of one of the seedier British tabloids under the headline of something like 'Rock Star's Coke Shame Shocker Scandal Donkey Vicar Love Nest'.