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Who We Are
Below you can find a presentation of some members of our group, as well as discover what brought us to Marillion.
Alfredo Santos
Name: Alfredo Jorge Santos

Birthdate: 3 April 1966

Birthplace: Matosinhos (Portugal)

Location: Porto (Portugal)

Job: Catering business

Website: http://www.casadoslaceiras.com
Marillion fan since 1991.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced childhood" and "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: The latest is always the best: "Invisible Man"

Other favourite musicians/bands:

Hobbies: Soccer, Tennis, Travelling, Poetry.

Ana Carbone
Name: Ana Paula Carbone

Birthdate: 2 September 1969

Birthplace: Brazil

Location: São Paulo (Brazil)

Job: Architect
Marillion fan since 1988.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Afraid of Sunlight", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Invisible Man", "Fantastic Place", "Out of this World", "This is the 21st Century", "Estonia", "The Great Escape"... they wouldn't fit all in here.

Other favourite musicians/bands: A bit of everything. From Abba to ZZ Top. No favourites.

Hobbies: Movies and TV shows. Reading. Jogging..

Ana Marcelino Cruz
Name: Ana Marcelino Cruz

Birthdate: 13 May 1979

Birthplace: Lisbon, but proudly raised in Ribatejo (Portugal)

Location: Azambuja (Portugal)

Job: Transportations operational

Marillion fan since (blushing)... 2005.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Clutching at Straws", "Brave", "Afraid of Sunlight" and the unavoidable "A Piss-up in a Brewery", companion from many hours. Discovering "Happiness is the Road" and "Holidays in Eden".

Favourite Marillion songs: Difficult question... "Go!", "A Collection", "Hard as Love", "No One Can", "Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury", "The Space", "Beautiful", "Wrapped up in Time" and of course "Invisible Man"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Tantos! Um pouco de tudo, mas principalmente 80's, Bob Marley, Billy Idol, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, INXS, Jamie Cullum, Metallica, Nneka, Madonna, Frank Sinatra, The Cure, The Police, U2, Queen, Simple Minds, Vaya con Diós... "Panda vai à Escola 1 & 2", não conta?

Hobbies: Brincar com o meu filho! Ler um bom livro. Navegar na internet e "bloggar" por aí. Fotografar momentos que às vezes só eu compreendo. Cozinhar sem pressas, com amor e loucura. Estar com as minhas fantásticas famílias. Conviver com os meus queridos amigos. O meu gato Miró

Ana Ruth Chaves
Name: Ana Ruth Bernardino Rivera Chaves Alves

Birthdate: 30 December 1973

Birthplace: Alvalade (Portugal)

Location: Alvalade, Lisboa (Portugal)

Job: Better not to mention!!!!

Marillion fan since 1987!
Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childood", "Clutching At Straws" and "Brave"... Albums Top 3.

Favourite Marillion songs: "Misplaced Childhood", "Clutching At Straws", "Brave" (almos all songs in these albums!), "Invisible Man", "Ocean Cloud", "No One Can"… It's a difficult question! It's easier to state what I don't like so much.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Madonna, Pink Floyd and many more.

Hobbies: Everything I do… besides my obligations, of course!

Cameraman Metalico
Name: Cameraman Metalico/António Melão

Birthdate: 23 March 1955

Birthplace: Serpa, Alentejo (Portugal)

Location: Miratejo, Lisbon (Portugal)

Job: Photojournalist

Websites: http://www.metalpictures.blogspot.com and http://www.myspace.com/metalcamera
Marillion fan since 1985

Favourite Marillion songs: All (when I like a band I can't dislike an album or music)

Favourite Marillion songs: All

Other favourite musicians/bands: Pink Floyd, Metallica, Black Sabbath, ELP, Yes, Jethro Tull, Camel, Motorhead, Rolling Stones, Gentle Giant, Bob Dylan, The Shadows, Cat Stevens, Slayer, Ozzy, Nat King Cole...

Hobbies: Photography, Agriculture/Gardening, Travelling, Cinema, Listening to music.

Carlos Verdial
Name: Carlos Verdial

Birthdate: 17 May 1971

Birthplace: Barreiro (Portugal)

Location: Barreiro (Portugal)

Job: Bank Clerk

Marillion fan since 1985 with "Misplaced Childhood".
Favourite Marillion albums: All but "Radiation"

Favourite Marillion songs: Let's skip this part.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Iron Maiden, U2, Whitesnake, Live, David Fonseca, Guns 'n' Roses, Him

Hobbies: Music, Cinema, to watch football (my knee has failed me).

Cláudia Monteiro
Name: Cláudia Monteiro

Birthdate: 23 March 1979

Birthplace: Porto (Portugal)

Location: Porto (Portugal)

Job: Teacher

Marillion fan since 2003 (sorry!!!!).
Favourite Marillion albums: "Marbles" and "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: "The Great Escape", "Beautiful", "Fantastic Place" e "Between You and Me" (ao vivo em Madrid!!)

Other favourite musicians/bands: Peter Murphy, Senser, INXS, Radiohead, Portishead, Nirvana

Hobbies: Cinema, Music, Art.

Edgar Dias
Name: Edgar Dias

Birthdate: 1 July 1976

Birthplace: Mira (Portugal)

Location: Porto (Portugal)

Job: Student

Website: www.liveglare.com
Marillion fan since 1992.

Favourite Marillion albums:"Brave", then "Holidays in Eden"

Favourite Marillion songs: "King" and "The Invisible Man"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Peter Murphy, Queensrÿche, Senser, Duran Duran, Heroes del Silencio, Bruce
Dickinson, The Blue Nile, Radiohead


Hobbies: Cinema, Music, Tennis.

Eduardo Franco
Name: Eduardo Rui de Braga Franco

Birthdate: 12 May 1973

Birthplace: Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel (Portugal)

Location: Urzelina, S. Jorge (Portugal)

Job: S. Jorge Forestry Service

Marillion fan since 1985. "Kayleigh" and "Lavender".
Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childhood", "Clutching at Straws", "Brave", "Afraid of Sunlight"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Grendel", "Emerald Lies", "Incubus", "Torch Song", "Sugar Mice", "Easter", "The Space", "Hollow Man", "The Great Escape", "Out Of This World", "This Strange Engine", "Go", "House", "Quartz", "When I Meet God", "Fantastic Place", "Ocean Cloud"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Fish, Rush, Led Zeppellin, Jeff Buckley, Neil Young, Dream Theater

Hobbies: Listening to musica, Watching music, Reading about music, Watching nature, Sleeping.

Fernando Mateus
Name: Fernando Manuel Almeida Mateus

Birthdate: 21 February 1968

Naturalidade: São Jorge Arroios, Lisbon (Portugal)

Residência: Castanheira do Ribatejo (Vila Franca de Xira) (Portugal)

Emprego: Business man
Fã dos Marillion desde I heard "The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)" in 1988.

Favourite Marillion albums: All of them

Temas preferidos: All of them

Other favourite musicians/bands: Riverside, Sylvan, Eloy, The Flower Kings, Saga, Porcupine Tree, Pendragon, Anathema, Pink Floyd

Hobbies: Music

Filipa Bastos
Name: Filipa Quintanilha Pereira Bastos

Birthdate: 2 December 1972

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Charneca da Caparica (Portugal)

Job: On permanent change.

Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipa_bastos, http://uk.youtube.com/pipabastos, http://catsandcrafts.blogspot.com, http://petsitting-blog.blogspot.com
Marillion fan since 1992, give or take a year... thanks to Tiago Barbosa, my highschool colleague.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Brave", "Misplaced Childhood", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Hollow Man", "Afraid of Sunlight", "The Party", "Sugar Mice", "Pseudo-Silk Kimono", "The Great Escape", "Faith", You're Gone"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Even more than Marillion, my biggest obsession is (for a long time) Genesis. Thanks to them I listen to Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips (recently (re)descovered). Sting, U2, Pearl Jam, Pat Metheny, Seal, Evanescence, piano and acoustical guitar!

Hobbies: Photography, Website administration (www.felinus.org), Petsitting, Webdesign.

Francisco Guedes Amorim
Name: Francisco Guedes de Amorim

Birthdate: 14 August 1970

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: S. João do Estoril (Portugal) / S. João da Madeira (Portugal)

Job: Management
Marillion fan since 1984, from the moment I heard "Grendel" on a local radio.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Clutching at Straws" and "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: In no particular order: "The Invisible Man", the trilogy "This Town/100 nights/The Rakes Progress", "This Strange Engine", "Interior Lulu", "The Man from the Planet Marzipan" among others.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Simple Minds, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, The The, Sade Adu, Tori Amos, Xutos & Pontapés, Sérgio Godinho...

Hobbies: Hotel Hobbies (hehe), Music, Cinema, Writing (Prose and Poetry), Thai Boxing, Chess, Traveling and my Motor Bike.

Franck Carreira
Name: Franck Carreira

Birthdate: 12 November 1973

Birthplace: France

Location: Almada (Portugal)

Job: Operacional de transportes
Marillion fan since 1989, from the moment I heard "Misplaced Childhood", the album of my life.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childhood", "Clutching At Straws", "Brave", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: So many! From "Chelsea Monday", "Cinderella Search, "Warm Wet Circles", all "Misplaced", through "Berlin", "Season's End", "The Space", "100 Nights", "Dry Land", "The Great Escape", "Runaway", "Sympathy", "Beyond You", "Out of this World", "One Fine Day", "Tumble Down the Years", "Man of 1000 faces", "3 Minute Boy", "When I Meet God", "Quartz", "This is the 21th century", and almost all of "Marbles".

Other favourite musicians/bands: U2 (of course), Placebo, Him, REM, Suede, Starsailor, Stereophonics, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roger Waters/Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Sting, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Moore, Heroes Del Silencio, Cult, Manic Street Preachers, Supertramp, Doors, Genesis, e claro Forgotten Suns and the cover bands 2U and Passing Strangers!

Hobbies: Music, Cinema, and to watch sports.

Hugo Pinheiro
Name: Hugo Pinheiro

Birthdate: 1 October 1980

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Trafaria (Portugal)

Job: Student (Sports Sciences)

Marillion fan since 1990.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childhood" and "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: Not an easy task: "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Garden Party", "Kayleigh", "Childhood's End?", "Grendel", "The Space", "This Town", "The Rakes Progress", "100 Nights", "The Great Escape", "Made Again", "Estonia", "This Strange Engine", "A Few Words For The Dead"... and it's unfair to the ones I left out.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Mainly R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Oasis, Pink Floyd, but also many others.

Hobbies: Music, Cinema, Going out with friends, and everything related to my studies field: Soccer.

Ivo Quintas
Name: Ivo de Oliveira Quintas

Birthdate: 3 September 1977

Birthplace:

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Job:

Marillion fan since 1992.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childhood", "Brave", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "The Great Escape", "This Strange Engine", "The King Of Sunset Town", "Sugar Mice", "Warm Wet Circles", "The Party", "Dry Land", "The Invisible Man", "Afraid Of Sunlight", "Gazpacho", and many others.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Jaco Pastorius; Bela Fleck and the Flecktones; Dream Theater; Dave Mathews Band; Pink Floyd; Rage Against the Machine, etc., etc.

Hobbies: Computers, Electrical bass, Cinema, Reading.

João Martins
Name: João Martins

Birthdate: 27 January 1979

Birthplace: Torres Novas (Portugal)

Residência: Riachos (Portugal)

Job:
Marillion fan since 1992. I had heard "The Thieving Magpie" and the singles "Kayleigh" and "Lavender", thanks to an uncle. But it was "Six of One Half Dozen of the Other" that made me fall in love. "Dry Land", "Easter" and "Garden Party" deeply striked me, and I became an unconditional fan of the world's best band.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Script fo a Jesters Tear" , "Misplaced Childhood" , "Holidays In Eden" , "Brave" , "Afraid of Sunlight"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Grendel", "Three Boats Down From The Candy", "Chelsea Monday", "Just For The Record", "Dry Land", "Splintering Heart", "Waiting To Happen", "Living With The Big Lie", "Afraid of Sunlight", "King", "This Strange Engine", "Quartz", "If My Heart Were a Ball...", "Invisible Man", etc...

Other favourite musicians/bands: Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Vast, Threshold, Ozric Tentacles, Mansun, Jethro Tull, No-Man, Sigur Rós, Arena, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Blackfield... among many others.

Hobbies: Fotography, Graphic Arts (wallpapers, etc.), Music (listening to, and making it with my band), Women, Drinks, Reading, etc...

João Torcato
Name: João Torcato

Birthdate:

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Job:
Marillion fan since 20 yars ago. I was in 3 concerts in Portugal (Carlos Lopes, Aquaparque and Paradise Garage), and in Fish's concert in Cinema Alvalade in 1990.

Favourite Marillion albums: Favourite is hard to say, but my least favourite is easy: "Marillion.com"

Favourite Marillion songs:

Other favourite musicians/bands:

Hobbies:

Name: Jorge Blanch

Birthdate: 10 November 1972

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon (Portugal)

Job: Commercial agent in gardening company.

Websites: http://universodamusica.blogspot.com
Marillion fan since 1985, listening to "Misplaced Childhood" on the beach..

Favourite Marillion albums: "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Fugazi", "Real to Reel", "Misplaced Childhood", "Brave", "Afraid of Sunlight", "Marbles", "Happiness is the Road"

Favourite Marillion songs: (A special Best Of): Side 1: "Assassing" and "Fugazi" (live versions- tour 87), "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Chelsea Monday", "Grendel", "Emerald Lies", "Incubus", "Jigsaw", "Bitter Suite", "Blind Curve", "Childhood's End?", "Hotel Hobbies", "White Russian" e, a acabar, a sequência "live" do "Real to Reel": "Forgotten Sons", "Garden Party", "Market Square Heroes"; Side 2: "Splintering Heart", "Living with the Big Lie", "Runaway", "Easter", "The Space", "Goodbye to All That/Wave/Mad/The Opium Den/The Slide/Standing in the Swing", "The Great Escape", "Gazpacho", "Out of This World", "Afraid of Sunlight", "Beyond You", "This Strange Engine", "Quartz", "The Only Unforgivable Thing", "Ocean Cloud", "Man from the Planet Marzipan", "Asylum Satellite #1", "Invisible Man"

Favourite Marillion concert: Madrid, 2004.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Pink Floyd, Genesis (until '75), Camel, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, Arena, Fish, Pendragon, Forgotten Suns, Pain of Salvation. Led Zepppelin, Faith No More, Supertramp, U2, Xutos & Pontapés, The Cult, Chameleons, The Cure, Paradise Lost, Depeche Mode, Fields of the Nephilin, The Mission, Moonspell, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, The Gathering, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Arcade Fire, Sigur Rós.

Hobbies: To travel as much as possible, Reading , Listening to music, Attending concerts, Cinema, Sporting! Spending time with my wonderful wife and son.

Name: Jorge Cravo

Birthdate: 16 October 1972

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Paris (France)

Job: Bank clerk

Marillion fan since 1990.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Script for a Jester's Tear" and "Real to Reel" (one of the best live albuns I've ever heard)

Favourite Marillion songs: Too many... but there's one I place above them all: "Forgotten Sons" (live version from "Real to Reel") Avoid to talk to me if I'm listening to it. ;-)

Other favourite musicians/bands: Classics from the 70's (Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis,...); 80's Marillion, IQ; 90's Änglagård, After Crying, Anekdoten, among others. Apart from this: Blues (Buddy Guy, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan,...), Jazz/Fusion (Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, Diana Krall,...) and Classical music (J.S. Bach and Vivaldi).

Hobbies: Radio, Cinema and Travelling.

Name: José Carlos Maltez

Birthdate: 29 November 1969

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Corroios (Portugal)

Job: Scientific Researcher

Marillion fan since 1985.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childhood", "Brave", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Chelsea Monday", "Childhood's End?", "Warm Wet Circles", "The Great Escape", "Afraid of Sunlight", "This Strange Engine", "Now She'll Never Know", "This is the 21st Century", "Ocean Cloud"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Suzanne Vega, Francesco Guccini, Genesis, Yes, Spock's Beard, Camel, Radiohead, Muse, REM, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel, Coldplay.

Hobbies: Webdesigning, Listening to music, Reading, Travelling, Cinema, Collecting Marillion.

Luis Gonçalves
Name: Luis Filipe de Almeida Gonçalves

Birthdate: 11 December 1958

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Vale de Figueira - São João da Talha (Portugal)

Job: Independent Employment (Statistics for comunitarian shippments)
Marillion fan since 1984 when listening to Script and Fugazi.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Script For A Jester's Tear", "Fugazi", "Real To Reel", "Misplaced Childhood", "Clutching At Straws", "Live From Loreley", "Seasons End", "Brave", "This Strange Engine"

Favourite Marillion songs: Toda a era Fish, destaco "The Web", "Forgotten Sons", "Cinderella Search", "Assassing", "Jigzaw", "Incubus", "Fugazi", "Misplaced Childhood" todo ("Lords Of The Backstage" até ao fim é espectacular), "Clutching At Straws" todo, "Easter, The Space", "Splintering Heart", "This Town" ('ganda' malha), "Waiting To Happen", "One Fine Day", "Estonia", "This Strange Engine", "Beautifull", "Out Of This World", "These Chains", "Cover My Eyes", "This Is The 21st Century", "Angelina", "Neverland", "Bridge", "Fantastic Place", "The Last Century For Man"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Ten Years After, Doors, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Van Der Graaf, Yes, Eloy, Amon Duul Ii, Camel, Barclay James Harvest, Pulsar, Dire Straits, Simple Minds, U2, The Mission, Talk Talk, Muse, 69 Eyes, Him, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Riverside, Sylvan, Pendragon, and many more. I like a lot, really a lot electronic music, naming some artists: Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Michael Rother, Solar Fields, Alpha Wave Movement, Wave World, Orb, Redshift, Amethystium Medwyn Goodall.

Hobbies: Music

Luis Loureiro
Name: Luis Loureiro

Birthdate: 3 November 1968

Birthplace: Gafanha da Nazaré (Portugal)

Location: Porto (Portugal)

Job: Journalist

Marillion fan since 1985 (Misplaced Childhood).
Favourite Marillion albums: "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Misplaced Childhood", "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Heart of Lothian"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Änglagård, Anekdoten, After Crying (fase Vedres Csaba), Isildurs Bane, Nil, Van der Graaf Generator, Genesis (fase Peter Gabriel), Gentle Giant, Yes, King Crimson, White Willow, Univers Zero, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Thinking Plague..

Hobbies: Organizing progressive festivals, attending to progressive festivals abroad, and listening to truly progressive music!

Luis Silva
Name: Luis Filipe Nunes da Silva

Birthdate: 30 de Abril 1969

Birthplace: Algés (yes I was born at home), Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Oeiras/Cacém, Lisbon (Portugal)

Emprego: Administrative work in the world's biggest telecomunications comapny!
Marillion fan since Fugazi (in the previous century).

Favourite Marillion albums: All of them.

Favourite Marillion songs: All albuns have great songs, it would be unfair to state only some.

Other favourite musicians/bands: U2, Echo & Bunnymen, The Mission, Housemartins, FGTH, Duran Duran (yes, why?), and when I need to let out some steam Nightwish, Within Temptation, Rammstein among others. I also like Celtic and Classical music.

Hobbies: Photography, Informatics, Sports, Travelling, Cinema, Listening to music.

Manuela Gaivéo
Name: Manuela Gaivéo (Nela)

Birthdate: 20 February 1981

Birthplace: Setúbal (Portugal)

Location: Queluz (Portugal)

Job: Anything related to Information Security
Marillion fan since I heard "Assassing", I can't remember when. The curiousity was around since "Lavender".

Favourite Marillion albums: "Fugazi", "Misplaced Childhood", "Clutching At Straws", "Brave", "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Marbles", "Afraid of Sunlight", "Happiness is the Road".

Favourite Marillion songs: Everything from the first albums, and a lot from the rest.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Total and unconditional Queen fan! and a Led Zeppelin follower, Bruce Springsteen, Fish, Muse, The Who, Blue Öyster Cult, Def Leppard, Threshold, Pink Floyd, Paradise Lost, A Perfect Circle, Deep Purple, Porcupine Tree, Vanden Plas, Rush and many others, mostly rock e metal, with progressive flavour.

Hobbies: Music, Photography, Reading, Writing, Collecting Postcards and cooking with Nuno.

Marcio Martins
Name: Márcio Martins "Dark Designer"

Birthdate: 5 March 1979

Birthplace: ??

Location: Vodra, Seia, Viseu (Portugal)

Job: Graphic Designer

Marillion fan since the beginning.
Favourite Marillion albums: All of them. Every album has Marillion magic.

Favourite Marillion songs: "Sugar Mice"... and all the others.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Heavy, Death, Black, Doom, Power, Progressive Metal...

Hobbies: Design, Photography

Miguel Baptista
Name: Miguel Baptista

Birthdate: 20 August 1981

Birthplace: Joanesburg (South Africa)

Location: Miratejo (Portugal)

Job: Student

Website: http://www.myspace.com/miguelrodriguesbaptista
Marillion fan since I heard my brother's covers band playing Marillion.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Clutching at Straws", "Season's End" and "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: most of them, it's easier to point out the ones I don't like most of: Dot.Com, "Cover My Eyes", "80 Days, "Map Of The World", "When I Meet God"...

Other favourite musicians/bands: Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, Pink Floyd, Pat Metheny, Nirvana, Radiohead, A Perfect Circle, Forgotten Suns, Bob Marley, World music , Djambes (ehehehe)... so many things...

Hobbies: Reading, Cinema, Walk the dog, Internet, Beach, Countryside, Nature... enjoying life without (more) exaggerations?

Mónica Guerra Leiria
Name: Mónica Guerra Leiria

Birthdate: 26 November 1979

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Massamá, Lisbon (Portugal)

Job: Graphic Designer

Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesterstear and http://mglscraps.blogspot.com
Marillion fan since 1995.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Script For A Jester's Tear", "Fugazi", "Brave", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Script For A Jester's Tear", "Fugazi", "Jigsaw", "Incubus", "The Hollow Man", "Afraid of Sunlight", "Ocean Cloud"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Fish, Arena, Forgotten Suns (with Linx), Mafalda Veiga, David Fonseca

Hobbies: Reading, Writing (mainly Harry Potter fanfiction ;P), Playing roleplaying games, and... does sex qualify as a hobby?

Nuno Agrela
Name: Nuno Ricardo de Amorim Ferreira Agrela

Birthdate: 17 September 1969

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Tavira (before that: Funchal; Almada; Évora) (Portugal)

Job: Agricultural Engineer
Marillion fan since 1984, when I was lent "Fugazi".

Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childhood", "Seasons End", "Brave", "Afraid of Sunlight", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Script for a Jester's Tear", Misplaced's final segment ("Blind Curve"/"Childhood's End?"/"White Feather"), "Sugar Mice", "Easter", "The Space", "Splintering Heart", "Afraid of Sunlight", "This is the 21st Century", "When I Meet God", "Somewhere Else", "Ocean Cloud", "Neverland", "The Great Escape", "Made Again", "Waiting to Happen" (for personal reasons)

Other favourite musicians/bands: Fish (of course), Pink Floyd, Camel, Jethro Tull, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Mike Oldfield, Alan Parsons Project, The Moody Blues, E.L.O., The Beatles, Van Morrisson, some indie-guitar from the late 80's as: The Sound, Lloyd Cole, The Smiths, R.E.M., Prefab Sprout, House of Love, The The (h was there), The Beautiful South/Housemartins, and recently, Porcupine Tree, just to mention some.

Hobbies: Progressive rock above all. Travelling. Cinema. Comics Books. Historic documentaries. Literature (historic, science fiction, biographies). Nature and Adventure.

Nuno Lourenço
Name: Nuno Lourenço

Birthdate: 17 February 1972

Birthplace: Ulme, Chamusca, Santarém (Portugal)

Location: Corroios, Seixal (Portugal)

Job: Supervisor in a press distribution company

Marillion fan since 1987.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Misplaced Childhood", "Brave", "Happines is the Road"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Script For A Jester's Tear", "White Feather","Fantastic Place", "Neverland", "Invisible Man", "Hapiness is the Road", "Three Minute Boy"

Other favourite musicians/bands: A lot of stuff: Bruce Springsteen, Xutos e Pontapés (my other passions who make me waste a lot of money), a lot o Metal, some Classical (Beethoven and Wagner), Prog, blues, traditional music, jazz, classical (Wagner), punk, rock, some disco. I can't stand the 60's or rockabilly (Elvis, blargh!).

Hobbies: Not a hobby, but a dream come true: to share a life with someone I love. Cinema, Chatting with friends, Eating, listening to live music.

Pedro Amaral
Name: Pedro Amaral

Birthdate: 15 April 1971

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Tavira (Portugal)

Job: Administrative

Marillion fan since 1984.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Fugazi", "Misplaced Childhood", "Radiation", "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Emerald Lies", "Grendel", and many others, it's unfair not to mention them.

Other favourite musicians/bands: Genesis, Transatlantic, Jethro Tull, Camel, Flower Kings, Megadeth

Hobbies: Cinema, Reading, Cinema, TV, Computers, Motocycling.

Pedro Strecht
Name: Pedro Strecht

Birthdate: 21 March 1974

Birthplace: Matosinhos (Portugal)

Location: Matosinhos (Portugal)

Job: Informatics Engineer

Marillion fan since 1987.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Afraid of Sunlight"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Afraid of Sunlight", "Under the Sun", "Living with the Big Lie", "Torch Song", "This Strange Engine", "Invisible Man", "Ocean Cloud"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Yes, Genesis, Camel, Focus, Spock’s Beard, The Flower Kings

Hobbies: To play keyboards, Swimming, Cinema, To develop databases

Ricardo Falcão
Name: Ricardo Falcão

Birthdate: 31 January 1976

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Lisbon (Portugal)

Job: Musician, Music teacher, Music business

Website: http://www.forgottensuns.net
Marillion fan since 1991, first time I heard the Script.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Fugazi", "Clutching at Straws" and "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Cinderella Search" (among many...)

Other favourite musicians/bands: Rush, DT, ARK... Forgotten Suns :)

Hobbies: Cinema

Rui Almeida
Name: Rui Miguel Cardoso Almeida

Birthdate: 21 August 1975

Birthplace: Coimbra (Portugal)

Location: Aveiro (Portugal)

Job: Bank clerk

Marillion fan since 1985.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Clutching at Straws".

Favourite Marillion songs: "Incubus", Clutching opening trilogy, "Beyond You", "Fantastic Place", "When I Meet God" and many more...

Other favourite musicians/bands: Waterboys (the only ones that stand up to Marillion!), Suzanne Vega, Supertramp, U2, The Doors among many others.

Hobbies: Reading, Writing, Going out, Travelling, Beach.

Rui Rolão
Name: Rui Rolão

Birthdate: 28 October 1966

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Massamá (Portugal)

Job: Bank clerk

Marillion fan since 1983.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Script For A Jester's Tear, "Brave", "Marbles", "Happiness is the Road"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Marquet Square Heroes", "Grendel", "Quartz", "The Invisible Man", "Happiness is the Road""

Other favourite musicians/bands: Almost everything except what I don't like.

Hobbies: Music, Philately and I'm as addicted to Sports as I am to Marillion.

Sandra Maltez
Name: Sandra Maltez

Birthdate: 24 February 1981

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Corroios (Portugal)

Job: Unemployed

Marillion fan since I heard Kayleigh.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Brave", "Misplaced Childhood"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Kayleigh", "Sugar Mice", "Script For A Jester's Tear", "Garden Party", "Three Minute Boy", "Now She'll Never Know", "Easter", "Runaway", "The Hollow Man", "Lap Of Luxury", "The Great Escape", "Made Again", "Beautiful", "When I Meet God"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Rui Veloso, Forgotten Suns, Luís Represas, Linkin Park, Xutos e Pontapés, Francesco Guccini, Pedro Abrunhosa and some other things.

Hobbies: Music Cinema, Reading, Hanging out with friends.

Sérgio Vieira
Name: Sérgio Vieira

Birthdate: 4 March 1957

Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Location: Santa Joana, Aveiro (Portugal)

Job: Bank clerk / Commercial manager

Marillion fan since 1989.
Favourite Marillion albums: "Brave", "Misplaced Childhood"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Kayleigh", "Sugar Mice", "Script For A Jester's Tear", "Garden Party", "Three Minute Boy", "Now She'll Never Know", "Easter", "Runaway", "The Hollow Man", "Lap Of Luxury", "The Great Escape", "Made Again", "Beautiful", "When I Meet God"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Rui Veloso, Forgotten Suns, Luís Represas, Linkin Park, Xutos e Pontapés, Francesco Guccini, Pedro Abrunhosa.

Hobbies: Music, Cinema, Reading, Travelling, going out with friends.

Spulit
Name: Spulit

Birthdate: 12 June 1976

Birthplace: Matosinhos (Portugal)

Location: Matosinhos (Portugal)

Job: Student, Researcher

Website: http://www.prog-pt.com
Marillion fan since 1988 with "The Thieving Magpie".

Favourite Marillion albums: "Misplaced Childhood", "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Easter", "Blind Curve"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Everything related to Progressive rock.

Hobbies: Concerts, Reading, Cinema, Travelling, Music reviews, Sports.

Vasco Leiria
Name: Vasco Manuel Palma Leiria

Birthdate: 27 August 1971

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Massamá, Lisbon (Portugal)

Job: Informatical Support in Health Centre

Website: www.myspace.com/vascoleiria e http://oquesepassanomundodosbits.blogspot.com
Marillion fan since Listening "Misplaced Childhood".

Favourite Marillion albums: "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Misplaced Childhood", "Afraid of Sunlight", "This Strange Engine"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Grendel", "He Knows you Know", "Man of a Thousand Faces", "This Strange Engine"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Forgotten Suns (with Linx), Arena, Simple Minds, Linkin Park

Hobbies: Role Play, Vampire CCG, Reading, Listening to A LOT of music.

Vasco Patrício
Name: Vasco Patrício

Birthdate: 9 October 1974

Birthplace: Lisbon (Portugal)

Location: Ericeira (Portugal)

Job: IT Consultant

Website: http://www.ptrocker.com
Marillion fan since 1988 with "Warm Wet Circles".

Favourite Marillion albums: "Clutching At Straws" and "Brave"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Warm Wet Circles", "Tux On" and "Forgotten Sons"

Other favourite musicians/bands: Joe Satriani

Hobbies: Electrical guitar.

Vitor Alves
Name: Vitor Alves

Birthdate: 24 October 1967

Birthplace: Porto (Portugal)

Location: Mozelos - Feira (Portugal)

Job: Justice Officer

Marillion fan since 1985 during the "Misplaced Childhood" period.

Favourite Marillion albums: "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Misplaced Childhood", "Brave", "Unplugged At The Walls" (Live), "Marbles"

Favourite Marillion songs: "Forgotten Sons", "Script for a Jester's Tear", "Incubus", "Jigsaw", "Tux On", "Sugar Mice", "Waiting to Happen", "Splintering Heart", "When I Meet God", "The Invisible Man", "The Only Unforgivable Thing", "Ocean Clould"

Other favourite musicians/bands: U2, Pink Floyd, Barclay James Harvest, Queen, Coldplay, Moby, Ben Harper

Hobbies: Sports (Football and Hockey), Informatics and Cinema.


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