Classic Rock

PORCUPINE TREE

W henPorcupine Tree withdrew back in 2010, the mood was low. Today, as they tour Closure/Continuation – one of 2022’s most successful comebacks (No.2 in the UK album chart) – it couldn’t be more different.

“It’s been a lot of fun,” Steven Wilson says sitting in his hotel in Paris, reflecting on a year in which he has also published a book and completed his next solo album. “It’s such a different feeling to the way it ended. We get on really well. There isn’t that same pressure, because we have no commitment to doing anything beyond this. There’s a lightness that comes with just doing something for fun. Every show feels special.”

Question marks still hover over Porcupine

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