Fish's Introduction to Punch & Judy


Punch and Judy came off an album called Fugazi, which I wrote with Marillion back in 1983. It was the first single, and hit number 19 in the charts, and caused me a great deal of tossing and turning, and I was very worried about it, because I felt that people would come to the opinion that I was actually advocating domestic violence, in the fact that the song is all about marriage, and how sour marriage could actually be. Fugazi itself as an album, was all about relationships, and I felt that I had to go into marriage, and I wanted to take it in such a way, that it was based on the old Italian puppet theatre, but at the time I wasn't married, I had no serious relationship. I didn't actually realise how close I was getting towards the reality of the thing. I feel that I balanced the books, I put my own Yin and Yang together with the song Family Business off the Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors album, which was more sympathetic. The Punch and Judy one is just dark comedy, all wrapped up in a nice piece of rock'n' roll. This is the version that we did in 1995 at the Funny Farm