Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation Live (Video)
Band Bio
Porcupine Tree are an English rock band formed by musician Steven Wilson in 1987. During an initial career spanning more than twenty years, they earned critical acclaim from critics and fellow musicians, developed a cult following, and became an influence for new artists. The group carved out a career at a certain distance away from mainstream music, being described by publications such as Classic Rock and PopMatters as "the most important band you'd never heard of".
The band began as a solo project for Wilson, who initially created all of the band's music himself. By late 1993, however, he wanted to work in a band environment, bringing on frequent collaborators Richard Barbieri as keyboardist, Colin Edwin as bassist, and Chris Maitland as drummer to form the first permanent lineup. With Wilson as lead vocalist and guitarist, this remained the lineup until February 2002, when Maitland left the band and Gavin Harrison was recruited to replace him. Porcupine Tree's early sound evoked various styles of psychedelic rock, space rock and experimental rock, later moving towards a more progressive/space rock direction comparable to that of Pink Floyd. Upon signing with Kscope record label in the late 1990s, the band began to approach a more mainstream alternative rock sound. By the early 2000s, the band had signed to a major record label and shifted their sound again, this time in a more progressive metal direction.
In 2010, after the tour in support of their 2009 studio album The Incident, the band became publicly inactive as Wilson committed himself to his solo work and other members began working on their own separate projects. However, Wilson, Barbieri and Harrison continued to intermittently work on material in secrecy over the course of the following decade, leading to the release of their album Closure/Continuation on 24 June 2022.
Closure/Continuation Live documents Porcupine Tree’s triumphant return to the stage perfectly. A live recording captured on 7th November 2022 at Amsterdam’s 17,000 capacity Ziggo Dome, it places the listener/viewer right at the heart of the stage for the duration of the show as psychotropic visuals explode behind the band as they play a superlative set of songs that features - to use Steven Wilson’s words - “no hits”, where each one is received like an anthem from an alternate universe.
Closure/Continuation Live includes live recordings of much of their 2022 reunion album (including the singles Harridan and Of The New Day) as well as classic tracks like Trains, Fear of a Blank Planet and Anesthetize.
Members & Personnel
Porcupine Tree:
Steven Wilson – vocals, guitars, bass, piano, mixing, design concept, production
Richard Barbieri – keyboards, synthesisers, production
Gavin Harrison – drums, percussion, drum mixing, production
Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic – art direction, image editor, photography, graphic design, creative director
Paul Stacey – additional guitar recording
Ed Scull – additional guitar recording engineering
Penny Morgan, Peter Rudge, Pro Music Management – management
Video & Audio Specs
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Encoded date : 2023-12-17 20:31:08 UTC
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Setlist
01. Blackest Eyes
02. Harridan
03. Of the New Day
04. Rats Return
05. Even Less
06. Drown With Me
07. Dignity
08. The Sound of Muzak
09. Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it is Recycled
10. Chimera’s Wreck
11. Fear of a Blank Planet
12. Buying a New Soul
13. Walk The Plank
14. Sentimental
15. Herd Culling
16. Anesthetize
17. I Drive the Hearse
18. Sleep Together
19. Collapse the Light Into Earth
20. Halo
21. Trains
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Genre:
Music Videos
Subgenre:
Progressive Rock / Progressive Metal / Alt. Rock /
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