“Where the joy and the pain started – and fittingly, where they end too”: Fish’s circle-closing reissues of Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors and Internal Exile

Fish – Vigil / Internal Exile.

Viewed with hindsight, Fish didn’t have a solo career so much as an endless stream of label struggles, lawsuits, near-bankruptcies, heartbreak, divorce(s), hospitalisations and near-death experiences, punctuated by the odd album. 

That the [almost]-retired singer didn’t chuck in the towel and move to the Outer Hebrides years ago is testament to his stubbornness. Either that or he was the world’s biggest glutton for punishment.