I believe it was this, Steven's announcement that Richard will be opening up for him on two upcoming English dates of the tour.
Off to RAH in a few hours, really looking forward to tonight's show. Maybe a little too much TTB in the setlist, but should still be a cracking night....!
Steven hinted at a PT song or two with Barbieri at the last RAH show. Hope their performance is on the Blu-ray.
What an excellent night. Consummate performer and entertainer (oh no, sorry, he's an artist, not an entertainer...!), the set was very good, with a good dose of PT in there. Sleep Together rocked! He also debuted Song of Unborn tonight, one of my top 3 from the TTB album. Very happy, despite his many attempts to make us miserable...
totally forgot he was playing here tonight until i walked by The Vic and saw "TONIGHT AT THE VIC - STEVEN WILSON" and i'm even more sad than i would have been otherwise : /
New T-shirt design for the festival shows he's playing this summer. Nice.
Listened to To the Bone in 5.1 for the first time and it sounds really really good, this dude can mix for sure.
...also, hope it's better here than in gaming topic, "Last Day of June" is now only for 11,99€ on Steam (for PC, for PS4 store says $19.99). Bought, will play soon.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/6...t_Day_of_June/
Information is starting to leak out on the official release of the concert video he shot back in March. The official title is Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It was all shot on one night, I believe the last night of his RAH run. That night's setlist is available to look up. The tentative extras are rehearsals of "Routine", "Hand Cannot Erase" and "Heartattack In A Layby". The CD/digital release will likely excise those performances.
It'll come out towards the end of next month, right around my birthday. Yay.
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"Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" from Home Invasion available to stream.
The new live album is quite good. A really high-energy performance, which is unusual but welcome given the pace of the To The Bone material. I do think the best songs that translate as well if not better from the original album are slower pieces like "Song of Unborn" and especially "Refuge", which takes on a more epic shape.
"25 years ago today, on the 4th December 1993, Porcupine Tree made its first ever live appearance at the Nag's Head in High Wycombe, UK. By then 2 albums and an EP had been released under the name (and a third one was half finished), all of which gave the impression that Porcupine Tree was a band, when in fact it was a solo project, just me messing about in my bedroom studio, although Colin and Richard had both guested on one song each on Up the Downstair released earlier that year. Positive press and a growing fanbase had led to increased pressure for live appearances, so in late 1993 I asked 3 brilliant musicians I knew, Colin Edwin (from my home town of Hemel Hempstead), Richard Barbieri and Chris Maitland (both of whom had played with my other band no-man) to join me in forming a real band line up of the project. For some reason they all agreed, and on the strength of the buzz about the project, Richard Allen at my then record company Delerium managed to book this show, as well as 2 others and a BBC radio session. After one week of rehearsals this was our first ever gig in front of an audience, performing a 7 song, 70 minute set in a backroom of a pub to about 200 people that had traveled from all over the country. The first song played was Voyage 34. which you can find elsewhere on the web, but here is a mixing desk recording of the second song Always Never. This would have also been the first time I had sung in front of an audience, at least since the days of my various school bands, so I can only imagine now how nervous I must have been at the prospect!The rest, as they say, is history..."
Oh god no. No no no no. You are so much better than this, man.
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I love how the music in the video makes it sound like a tragedy and "significant"...
Of course Steven doesn't like them, but whatever, i guess he wanted the media coverage.