Feb 5 Porcupine Tree in The Tivoli

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  • Porcupine Tree @ The Tivoli

    9. Feb. 2010, 1:08 von NiteShok

    Fri 5 Feb – Porcupine Tree, Sleep Parade

    After a successful first-time Australian jaunt in April 2008, English prog rock four-piece Porcupine Tree are in Brisbane tonight for the first of three east coast capital city shows over consecutive nights. Though labelling the band as “progressive rock” isn't entirely representative of the scope they attempt to portray - in singer Steven Wilson's words, they play "a very ambitious form of rock" – interest in the band lies in their refusal to genre-associate. Not to mention managing to forge a 20-plus year career via dedication to an outsider craft and the ensuing word-of-mouth loyalty of their gradual, ever-growing fanbase. All this achieved in a nearly complete absence of anything approaching commercial airplay.

    Resultantly, there are very few pedestrians among the thousand-plus in attendance tonight. Patience is a virtue when witnessing a band with a fondness for long, roaming song structures, so while casual fans of rock…
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  • Porcupine Tree @ The Tivoli

    8. Feb. 2010, 14:07 von MaxFactor81

    Fri 5 Feb – Porcupine Tree, Sleep Parade

    As Neil Young once sang, tonight’s the night – the big music has arrived in town. Along with fellow prog-rock fans, young and old, I walk to The Tivoli with a sense of excitement that only those who have a copy of Arriving Somewhere DVD can truly understand. Only two months ago, I was privy to witnessing Japan’s divine noise makers Mono, whose performance proved to be one of the most singularly powerful live experiences in my entire life, and just before that another crushing live unit – Steven Wilson’s Swedish collaborators/protégés Opeth – yet this balmy evening also stores a whole array of spine-tingling moments for us.

    The diverse crowd is still busy converging at the venue by the time newly-revamped Sleep Parade – who had earlier opened for tonight’s heroes during their inaugural Australian tour two ears ago – plug in and take all and sundry into a wide open sonic space. Oz-progsters to the core…
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  • Setlist Porcupine Tree Concert at The Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia

    7. Feb. 2010, 22:42 von setlistfm

    Fr., 5. Feb. – Porcupine Tree, Sleep Parade
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  • Porcupine Tree, Sleep Parade @ The Tivoli

    7. Feb. 2010, 22:09 von MaxFactor81

    Fri 5 Feb – Porcupine Tree, Sleep Parade

    Hotly anticipated among the local music community, tonight’s event draws a positively eclectic crowd inside The Tivoli’s iconic walls as the metalheads in black T-shirts, curious indie kids and middle-aged couples converge in order to experience something that no DVD is able to replicate: an impossibly powerful live combination of sound and vision. To paraphrase the relevant song lyrics, we’re here to witness the start of something beautiful – or more accurately, the sonic gurus collapsing the light into Earth.

    The warm-up honours for the occasion again fall on Melbournians Sleep Parade’s collective shoulders and the “sleepyheads” comfortably deliver. With a new guitarist and bass player in tow, the four-piece assemble a healthy gathering with their panoramic, distinctly Australian alt-prog. Frontman Leigh Davies changes guitars for practically every song, among which the sinister Oxygen, the Karnivool-like Every Day, Seconds Away and a lengthy new number are particularly impressive.
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