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1. Tumbledown (5.52)
2. Mission Statement (4.00)
3. Incomplete (3.44)
4. Tilted Cross (4.19)
5. FaithHealer (5.01)
6. Rites of Passage (7.42)

7. Plague of Ghosts

• (i) Old Haunts (3.13)
• (ii) Digging Deep (6.49)
• (iii) Chocolate Frogs (4.04)
• (iv) Waving At Stars (3.12)
• (v) Raingods Dancing (4.16)
• (vi) Wake-up Call (Make It Happen) (3.32)

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1. Lead vocal - Fish, Backing vocal - Elizabeth Antwi, Drums - Dave Stewart, Bass - Steve Vantsis, Guitars - Steve Wilson, Piano - Mickey Simmonds, Keyboards - Tony Turrell, Intro guitar - Bruce Watson, Percussion - Dave Haswell
2. Lead vocal - Fish, Backing vocals - Nicola King and Tony King, Drums - Dave Stewart, Bass - Steve Vantsis, Acoustic guitar - Robin Boult, Electric guitar - Robin Boult/Til Paulman/Bruce Watson, Organ and piano - Tony Turrell, Percussion - Dave Haswell
3. Lead vocal - Fish, Female Lead Vocal - Elizabeth Antwi, Double bass - Steve Vantsis, Strings - Davey Crichton, Acoustic guitars - Robin Boult, Mandolin - Bruce watson, Harmonium - Tony Turrell, Percussion - Dave Haswell, String arrangement - Davey Crichton and Elliot Ness
4. Lead vocal - Fish, Backing vocal - Nicola King, Drums - Dave Stewart, Double bass - Steve Vantsis, Percussion - Dave Haswell, Harmonium and synths - Tony Turrell, Fiddle - Davey Crichton, Guitars - Robin Boult.
5. Lead vocal - Fish, Drums - Dave Stewart, Bass - Steve Vantsis, Guitars - Steve Wilson/Robin Boult, Acoustic guitar - Phil Grieve, Keyboards - Tony Turrell/Mickey Simmonds, Strings and solo violin - Davey Crichton, Percussion - Dave Haswell, String arrangement - Davey Crichton/Tony Turrell/Elliot Ness
6. Lead vocal - Fish, Keyboards/programming/solo - Mickey Simmonds, Drums - Dave Stewart, Bass - Steve Vantsis, Percussion - Dave Haswell, Strings - Davey Crichton, String arrangement - Davey Crichton/Elliot Ness
7 (i - vi) Lead vocal - Fish, Female backing vocals - Nicola King, Male backing vocals - Tony King/Merlin, Spoken French vocal - Pierre Michel Meier, Spoken outro vocal - Mo Warden, Drums - Dave Stewart, Bass - Steve Vantsis, All guitars and solos - Steve Wilson, Keyboards - Tony Turrell, Programming - Mark Daghorn/Tony Turrell, Strings - Davey Crichton, Percussion - Dave Haswell, Samples - Elliot Ness/Tony Turrell

Fish's 5th solo album from 1999 followed on from Sunsets On Empire in that it again included Porcupine Tree's Steve Wilson and built on the positive reviews that album had received.

It includes a great cover of Alex Harvey's Faith Healer, but the main praise was centered on the epic 25 minute Plague Of Ghosts suite featured on the second half of the album. Comments like '...a fantastic collection of epic and sweeping songs... one of the best suites of music Fish has ever collated ...tour de force ...well worth the wait ...' proved the album would rate as one of the fans future favourites.

Released world-wide April 19/20th 1999 by Roadrunner.

Re-issued by Voiceprint on the Chocolate Frog Label on 14/10/2002

Released world-wide April 19/20th 1999 by Roadrunner.

UK: RR8677-2
Eur: (Roadrunner) 498 6112

Promo: RR PROMO 386

Issued under licence from Derek W Dick to the All Blacks B.V.
Roadrunner records is a registered trademark of the All Blacks B.V.

Re-issued by Voiceprint on the Chocolate Frog Label on 14/10/2002

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Label: Chocolate Frog
Catalogue Number: CFVP013CD

album review:(All Music Guide)

1999 saw ex-Marillion singer Fish release his Raingods With Zippos set following some protracted legal battles with former labels. Enlisting producer Elliot Ness, Fish also chose to inject some new blood and worked with several new musicians which gives the album a re-energized feel. As always, the writing is literate and expressive, concerning itself with matters of the spirit and the heart. "Tumbledown" leads the album off in fine style. What begins as a lovely piano ballad, suddenly becomes a stomping rock track with soaring guitar work from newcomer Steve Wilson. The ballads arrive in the form of "Incomplete," a dreamy, acoustic duet with the throaty Elisabeth Antwai and mandolin, courtesy of Big Country's Bruce Watson, and "Tilted Cross." The latter is a harrowing account of the mayhem caused by landmines in Bosnia whose gentle tone almost betrays the song's content. The core of Raingods With Zippos is the twenty-five minute suite "Plague of Ghosts," which consists of six songs beginning with the eerie "Old Haunts." The suite ranges from the percolating, chugging rhythms of "Digging Deep" to the lovely "Waving At the Stars," whose programmed drums lend the cut an urgency. The suite peaks with the exquisite "Rain Gods Dancing," with majestic guitar from Wilson skirting over a stunningly, beautiful piano-based melody. Fish has delivered an album sure to please old fans and capable of winning new converts with some of the most satisfying work of his career. ~ Tom Demalon, All Music Guide