“The area was being evacuated. The police knocked our door and the letting agency told us to leave. We decided to stick it out”: Marillion’s Pete Trewavas on the storms, earthquakes and blizzard that birthed the third Edison’s Children album

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 15: Bassist Pete Trewavas of Marillion performs on stage at Usher Hall on November 15, 2021 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns).

After a five-year gap, Edison’s Children returned in 2019 with official third album The Disturbance Fields, which co-founder and Marillion bassist Pete Trewavas told Prog was about space, climate change and the band’s own future.

When Pete Trewavas of Marillion and Eric Blackwood of Blackwood & Foti formed Edison’s Children in 2008, they never imagined that one day they’d be writing, recording and performing with the son of the first man on the Moon.