Steven Wilson Interview 2022: Reunited Porcupine Tree and More

Steven John Wilson born on November 3, 1967, is an English musician and singer/songwriter as well as a record producer. He is the founding guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter for the band Porcupine Tree, as well as being a part of other bands, such as Blackfield, Storm Corrosion, and No-Man.

Porcupine Tree is a band idea that started out as a duo of Steven Wilson and his school friend Malcolm Stocks. The moment that Steven Wilson signed with Delerium label, he chose the top tracks from the tapes of prog band. All of these songs were master-mastered and formed the basis of Porcupine Tree’s very first studio album, called “On the Sunday of Life…” The band was active between 1987–2010 and now they are reunited and coming with new tours and new albums. Steven Wilson shared the news: “I’m happy to report that Porcupine Tree will return to North and South America in September/October 2022 for a limited series of performances in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Chile, see list of dates below – these will likely be the only shows on the Closure/Continuation tour. So my apologies if we aren’t making it to a city near you.

You can also listen to a second track from the forthcoming new album now. ‘Of the New Day’ is a song of rebirth, emerging from darkness. In many ways, it’s a typically atypical Porcupine Tree ballad, but I love how the time signature is constantly changing, from bars of regular 4/4 time to 3/4, 5/4, 6/4, and 11/4. I think it’s something PT can do well, to create a song which has the complexity to it, but in a way that sounds natural and hopefully not simply complicated for the sake of it.”

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When does Porcupine Tree reunite again?

Yes, they will get back together and fans are also happy about it. Porcupine Tree is known as a progressive rock band too.

Steven Wilson announced it on the official website and he talked in a new interview: “This is not what I’m supposed to do. Certainly, this wasn’t supposed to be the all-encompassing dominant strand of my professional life. I wanted to go off and work with other musicians; I wanted to do other styles of music. I didn’t feel particularly liked or respected in the band. Or at least if they did have respect, it was never vocalized.”

Steven Wilson also added this to the interview: “We didn’t have to make this record. It’s not as if we’ve come back because we’ve been offered $10m to tour America. We’ve not come back because our solo careers have failed. We thought it’d be fun and we had some good material. I think that’s partly reflected in the title of the album: I genuinely don’t know whether this is a closure or the start of another continuing strand of the band’s career. If it is closure, I think it’s a really nice way to do it. Or we might call each other up a year from now and say: ‘Hey, that was fun. Should we do it again?’ My guess is probably the former. I think it probably is the last record we’ll make and probably the last tour we’ll do.”

Steven Wilson also released his new book titled: “Limited Edition of One”

“Part of the long-awaited memoir of Steven Wilson: whose celebrated band Porcupine Tree began as teenage fiction before unintentionally evolving into a reality that encompassed Grammy-nominated records and sold-out shows around the world before he set out for an even more successful solo career. Part of the story of a twenty-first-century artist who achieved chart-topping mainstream success without ever becoming part of the mainstream. From Abba to Stockhausen, via a collection of conversations and thought pieces on the art of listening, the rules of collaboration, lists of lists, personal stories, professional adventurism (including food, film, TV, modern art), old school rock stardom, how to negotiate an obsessive fanbase and survive on social media, and dream-fever storytelling.”

“Of The New Day” lyrics:

Hold your fear in check my dear
It’s got no place here
There’s no need to fight
Just drift away on the new day

Find yourself a better way
To meet the future
It’s all that you crave
A silhouette of the new day

Walk away from what you love
And all your people
Move into fog
And live again on the new day

Raise your head and fill your lungs
Breathe the autumn
Shame to be down in the thrall
Of the new day

The hour of almost rain
The night becomes the day

Daily finds you tearing out
All the pages
That held all your thoughts
When you dreamed of the new day

It’s not the world that shrinks from you
It’s the old days
That line up behind
The monolith of the new day

Porcupine Tree 2022 World Tour Dates

September 2022

Sept. 10 – Toronto, Ontario @ Meridian Hall
Sept. 12 – Laval, Quebec @ Place Bell
Sept. 14 – Boston, Mass. @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Sept. 16 – New York, N.Y. @ Radio City Music Hall
Sept. 17 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ The Met Philadelphia
Sept. 18 – Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
Sept. 20 – Chicago, Ill. @ Auditorium Theatre
Sept. 23 – Irving, Texas @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Sept. 25 – Denver, Colo. @ Bellco Theatre
Sept. 28 – San Francisco, Calif. @ The Masonic
Sept. 30 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Greek Theatre

October 2022

Oct. 04 – Mexico City, Mexico @ Pepsi Center
Oct. 07 – Santiago, Chile @ Movistar Arena
Oct. 21 – Berlin, Germany @ Max Schmelinghalle
Oct. 23 – Vienna, Austria @ Gasometer
Oct. 24 – Milan, Italy @ Forum
Oct. 27 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Globe
Oct. 28 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Falkoner Theatre
Oct. 30 – Katowice, Poland @ Spodek Hall

November 2022

Nov. 02 – Paris, France @ Le Zenith
Nov. 04 – Stuttgart, Germany Porsche Arena
Nov. 06 – Oberhausen, Germany @ KP Arena
Nov. 07 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggodome
Nov. 09 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Halle 622
Nov. 11 – London, United Kingdom @ SSE Arena, Wembley