Porcupine Tree for Dublin, October 11th
Posted on 30th Jul 10 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 
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Prog stalwarts Porcupine Tree are to play Dublin’s Tripod on October 11th, their first Irish date in eight years, supporting latest release The Incident as well as performing highlights from their 20-year career. Here’s the blurb: Rock legends and innovators PORCUPINE TREE play Dublin’s TRIPOD this October in support of their latest studio album “The [...]
Prog stalwarts Porcupine Tree are to play Dublin’s Tripod on October 11th, their first Irish date in eight years, supporting latest release The Incident as well as performing highlights from their 20-year career.
Here’s the blurb:
Rock legends and innovators PORCUPINE TREE play Dublin’s TRIPOD this October in support of their latest studio album “The Incident”. The UK quartet will be performing classics from their career spanning almost two decades, as well as songs from their groundbreaking new album.
The Tripod show will be PORCUPINE TREE’S first in Dublin since 2002, and this tour also includes a sold out show at London’s legendary venue The Royal Albert Hall, with all 5,000 tickets sold months in advance.
The band, starting out as an outlet for the creative meanderings of founder Steven Wilson (producer, for amongst other bands, Opeth), has consistently been one of the most forward-thinking outfits in the rock oeuvre, progressing through psychedelia and experimentation, taking onboard elements of ambient trance (the single Voyage 34) and progressive rock, over three albums, before signing with Atlantic Records and moving in a heavier direction, culminating in the all-time classic Fear of a Blank Planet. Signing with Roadrunner for Europe in 2006, the band have since released numerous works on their own Transmission label. New album The Incident is a concept work commenting on 21st Century popular culture, “fuelled by a cocktail of MTV, sex, prescription drugs, video games, the internet, terminal boredom and subsequent escape”, according to the press release. The album features a main 14-piece body of songs and a separate disc containing four tracks pertinent to, but independent of, the album.
Tickets are on sale now from the usual outlets, for €29.50 including booking fee.
Tags: dublin tripod, Porcupine Tree, progressive rock, The Incident
