Later this year we can look forward to a new studio album from British progressive-rock band Porcupine Tree. After the successful ‘Fear Of A Blank Planet’ album of 2007, Steven Wilson & Co withdrew to a studio in the British countryside. On Wednesday 14 October the band is coming to present that new album in the AB.

Singer/guitarist/keyboard-player Steven Wilson has been identified as the creative core of Porcupine Tree since 1987. However in the past 20 years this band has evolved from chill-out (see: The Orb) through psychedelica and (after an intense acquaintance with Opeth, from Sweden) on to an exciting mix of progressive, electronica, experiment and metal... somewhere on the crossroad between Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Dream Theater and Tool. The band broke through to the broader public with their second studio album ‘The Sky Moves Sideways’ in 1995. Their album ‘Fear Of A Blank Planet’ signified a great leap forward for the band in which ex-Japan member Richard Barbieri has resided since ’93. Following a brilliant ABConcert in November 2007, the band now returns to Brussels again.

Support act will be the legendary Robert Fripp, best known as the constant factor in progressive rock band King Crimson. Their debut ‘In The Court Of The King Crimson’ (from ’68 already) is considered to be one of the ground-breaking albums of the progressive genre. Over the past 30 years he's worked with the likes of Van der Graaf Generator, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, The Orb and David Sylvian, and got together with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani in the 2004 version of the guitar-trio G3. Fripp also delivered soundscapes for Porcupine Tree’s ‘Fear Of A Blank Planet’ and so the circle is complete.

PORCUPINE TREE ‘Way Out Of Here’

ROBERT FRIPP ‘Frippertronics’