Eight years after he joined MARILLION, Steve Hogarth had been so properly embedded into the band and so loved by their fans as to finally strike out on his own and start a parallel career as a separate entity, h. The singer’s solo debut, “Ice Cream Genius” from 1997, was an impressive offering which contained a strong set of songs and featured an impressive ensemble who delivered them, including Dave Gregory, Richard Barbieri and Clem Burke. All of this guaranteed the album a long life – the life taking on a new meaning on July 24th, when the already classic platter gets a deluxe treatment in the way the singer’s main group’s record do.
There’s a difference, however: Hogarth’s box set, to be made available a three-CD and Blu-ray and on vinyl, doesn’t comprise the album’s remix – there’s only the original stereo variant alongside two discs of concert recordings from August 9th, 2000 – and there’s no surround version whatsoever on Blu-ray, where more live cuts share the space with a bit of video material and session diaries. Alluring nevertheless.
Ice Cream Genius:
Deluxe Edition
CD 1 – The Album:
1. The Evening Shadows
2. Really Like
3. You Dinosaur Thing
4. The Deep Water
5. Cage
6. Until You Fall
7. Better Dreams
8. Nothing To Declare
9. The Last Thing
CD 2 – Live At Dingwalls – Pt. 1:
1. Dream Brother
2. Really Like
3. You Dinosaur Thing
4. King
5. Working Town
6. Fake Plastic Trees
7. Xen And Now
8. Cage
Ice Cream Genius: Deluxe Edition
CD 3 – Live At Dingwalls – Pt. 2:
1. 80 Days
2. I Don’t Remember
3. Until You Fall
4. The Last Thing
5. Helter Skelter
6. The Art Of Dying
7. Middle Of The Road
8. Nothing To Declare
Blu-ray:
⦁ Interview
⦁ You Dinosaur Thing (promo video)
⦁ You Dinosaur Thing (behind the scenes)
⦁ Writing, Demo & Studio Sessions
⦁ THE H BAND – Live At Paradiso, Amsterdam – September 13th, 2002
⦁ THE H BAND – Live At The Feast Of Hope, Geneva – May 27th, 2000
⦁ THE H BAND – Live Compilation 1997-2003
