"Welcome to the ‚Garden Party‘"[a] is a 1986 single by British neo-prog band Marillion released exclusively in West Germany to accompany a series of concerts the band played at festivals in that country as second bill to Queen, following their commercial breakthrough with the album Misplaced Childhood and the hit singles "Kayleigh" and "Lavender" the year before.

In its place, the B-side of the 12" single featured the two live tracks "Kayleigh" and "Script for a Jester's Tear".

These versions, recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon in January 1986, are the same as on Brief Encounter, an EP released only in the USA a few months earlier.

The cover was, as usual, designed by Mark Wilkinson and features artwork based on promotional material for the band's series of open-air concerts in the summer of 1986.

As the band did not release any new material domestically in year following their commercial breakthrough, both this single and Brief Encounter were in demand by fans in the UK and thus widely stocked by record shops as imports.