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On the 4th October 2007 Porcupine Tree arrived for an in-store performance and signing session at Park Avenue CDs in Orlando, Florida, with 200 fans also in attendance. Although it was originally planned that the full band would play, lack of space dictated that it was only the 2 guitarists / singers Steven Wilson and John Wesley who delivered an impromptu performance, including many songs rarely (if ever) played by the band, making for a very special and intimate show. Fortunately this one-off performance was captured by a remote recording facility and the complete 8 song, 33 minute show is now being released in a mail order only CD, with a digipack sleeve created by photographer Lasse Hoile and designer Carl Glover. The CD will be available to pre-order soon from the PT Store (please do NOT email to ask when), and is expected to ship in the week commencing 11th Feb.

Dutch vinyl specialists Tonefloat will also release a quality 180gm vinyl edition of We Lost the Skyline in a gatefold sleeve, with a limited and numbered edition of 1,000 copies on marbled vinyl, and a regular edition on black vinyl. These editions will be released on 18th March, but will also be available to pre-order soon from the ToneFloat website. The Porcupine Tree store will also stock the vinyl editions once they are released.

Full track listing for the album is:

1. the sky moves sideways (4.02)
2. even less (3.27)
3. stars die (4.33)
4. waiting (3.52)
5. normal (4.52)
6. drown with me (4.09)
7. lazarus (4.29)
8. trains (4.04)

Denis

Thanks!
Best regards

thanks for the update..

Thanks Denis,

I'm watching and waiting to pre-order.

Regards,

Larry

Now available for pre-order at Burning Shed

Last night I pre-ordered the CD from Burning Shed and the limited marbled vinyl from tonefloat

This could be a great album!

Porcupine Tree have announced their long-awaited maiden tour of Australia, to take place in April. Details are here at OzProg and KMW.

The tour, in support of their most recent album Fear Of A Blank Planet, will take in the east coast over three shows.

The dates and venues are as follows:

April 25th - The Palace (Metro Nightclub), Melbourne
April 26th - The Enmore, Sydney
April 27th - The Tivoli, Brisbane

Support acts and ticketing information are yet to be announced, so keep an eye on OzProg for more details.

Enjoy

Thanks for the tour date info. Excellent news

At a risk of repeating myself, this is the pretty damn fine

Lontano - Enjoy yourself, they may have had time to practice and play Normal for the first time.

Denis

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Originally posted by DenisA:


At a risk of repeating myself, this is the pretty damn fine

Lontano - Enjoy yourself, they may have had time to practice and play Normal for the first time.

Denis

Thanks Denis. I have got my tickets for the gig. This will be my first PT gig, so expectations are very high. I have read so many good things about them live but not been able to see them when I have been in the UK. Just had to make do with the DVD.

I hope the new CD will be in the letter box when I get home in a few hours. Glad to hear it is good.

Cheers

Seconded, it is very good!

Attended their concert in Stockholm last year.
Very, very good. One of the very best, if not the best, I´ve attended in many years.

Ok Mr D I finally got to hear PT's Fear of a Blank Planet tonight (in Dolby Digital 5.1 guise) and I'm impressed! ...can't think why I hadn't really clocked this lot before despite so many mentions on this site. I guess some catching up is in order?!

Jet,

You obviously wern't listening to Gary Shaw and me gabbing on about PT at the SD gig last year! Welcome aboard and because the band has so much diversity, let me know if you need help.

Denis

Jet,

Potentially you have a wonderful journey ahead. Though the band have been through several styles the strength of the song-writing has always been top division (even though I think Mr Wilson needs to cheer up a bit - he's had a pretty bleak view of humanity over the last few albums!).

Denis,

Interesting that this album featured so many older songs. I feared they'd be a bit lost without the full band effect, but they're not. Which I suppose reinforces my comment to Jet about the songwriting...

Denis,
Do you have a good site for there vinyl please?
Munch

Munch,

There are Two PT releases available at tonefloat. Click on the Store link and you find 2 versions of Fear of a Blank Planet and the impending release of We lost the Skyline. They are not cheap. The Other store that supports PT is Burning Shed. Most of PT's Vinyl are limited issues and sell out quite quickly, as is the case right now unfortunatley. The good news is that the Album Lightbulb Sun is coming out on vinyl this year and will be an essential buy. The best way of keeping up to date with the latest PT and related Project news is to subscribe to theseaweedfarm. The Artwork and quality of all PT Vinyl packages is first class and reflects the the consistent high standards that Steven Wilson sets for the band. I will bring along my Vinyl next week to show you.

Denis

Cheers for the info Denis.
How long have they been going as the P.Tree band?
Munch

Munch,

There is a good history of the band here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine_Tree

and PT routes go back to 1987. A long journey to their more than well deserved success.

Adrian