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God – Panic Underneath The Arches 12″ EP to be released on Tonefloat
NewsRetrieved from the archives, ‘God’ was the collaboration between myself and singer and multi-instrumentalist Ford. We wrote and recorded on and off in the late 80’s and early 90’s, taking a cue from our shared love of the new wave pop of...
Voyage 31: The concert history of Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson from a Dutch perspective
NewsVOYAGE 31 chronicles the concert history of Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson from a unique Dutch perspective. This deluxe hardcover coffee table book (160 pages) by journalist Wouter Bessels is written in Dutch, but will appeal to fans w...
Watch Jess Cope’s video for ‘Song of Unborn’
NewsWatch Jess Cope’s beautiful video for ‘Song of Unborn’ below. “I took Carl Sagan’s quote, “We are all made of star stuff” and based the film around that idea for Song of Unborn. Using abstract imagery and different styles of animation,...
Tangerine Dream ‘In Search of Hades’ box set announced with new SW remixes
NewsA major Tangerine Dream box set has been confirmed for release by Universal. The 16 CD / 2 Blu-Ray set has been a long time in the making. Pre-order from Super Deluxe Edition: http://smarturl.it/td-isoh-sde Pre-order from Burning Shed:...
New Bass Communion Bandcamp store now open
NewsMy Bass Communion project now has its own Bandcamp page, where much of the discography is now available to listen to and purchase digitally (more releases will be added soon). https://basscommunion.bandcamp.com For those of you who aren’...
And so finally the To the Bone tour comes to an end…
NewsAnd so finally the To the Bone tour comes to an end. 14 months and 145 shows performed to over a quarter of a million people in 33 different countries. Even though I’m ready for it to end and to get back to working on new things, it’s be...
Watch The Raven That Refused To Sing from Home Invasion
NewsThis week marks the sixth anniversary of the 2013 release of The Raven That Refused to Sing, an album that was in many ways my loving homage to seventies style progressive rock. To commemorate that anniversary here is the title track as ...
Moving through the emotions – Hajo Müller photos from Hamburg
NewsHere’s a series of photos taken by Hajo Müller in Hamburg on 20th Feb. I love them because they show many of the different emotions I move through during (and before) a concert. Performing for nearly 3 hours every night during the To th...
New Tim Bowness album ‘Flowers At The Scene’ now available to pre-order
NewsThe new Tim Bowness album “Flowers at the Scene”, which I co-produced and mixed with him under the No-Man moniker, is now available to pre-order for 1st March release. As I previously wrote I think the album is wonderful. It features 11 ...
SWHQ FACTS
The lyrics on Porcupine Tree's 2007 album Fear of a Blank Planet deal with two typical neurobehavioural developmental disorders affecting teenagers in the 21st century: bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder, and also with other common behaviour tendencies of youth like escapism through prescription drugs, social alienation caused by technology, and a feeling of vacuity—a product of information overload by the mass media.