Former Marillion lead singer Fish needs to rest his voice for at least six months and will not be doing any full touring until 2010, according to a story on Classic Rock today.Fish's report of the news, emailed to fans, is pretty amusing:
“It started off pleasantly enough and my speaking voice was deemed to be not too bad considering I’d just completed a tour.
“She [the specialist] took internal photos of my throat and vocal chords with an endoscope and pronounced that I didn’t have nodules.
“I thought everything was going to be diagnosed as down to heavy usage and prescribed a rest from singing for a while.
“Just as I thought I had an all clear she pointed out a white area on one of my chords and said: ‘But this is worrying!’
“As soon as I heard the phrase ‘irregular cell growth’ my mind went cold and focused. I knew what it meant.
“In all honesty I am 50 years old, I smoke(d), drink, have a ‘colourful’ history, have sung nearly 1,700 gigs in 27 years and have conducted probably three times as many interviews. It’s like standing on the M1 and expecting not to be hit by a car.
“I am taking at least six months off from singing. I’d like to think that I can play some festivals in the summer of 2009 but there will be no arranged tours until 2010.”
Get well soon, Derek Dick, and stay off the M1!
12/19/2008 Update - After reading Fish's MySpace blog, Fish fears that this might be throat cancer. I did not realize that when I posted yesterday. Clearly it's more a serious topic than my blog post alludes to. Get well soon, Fish.
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