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Porcupine Tree
Started in 1987 by Steven Wilson as a tongue-in-cheek homage to his boyhood
heroes Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree gradually developed its own character and
eventually eclipsed Wilson's main band of the time, No-Man. Wilson launched the
band in Hertfordshire, England, and invented a suitably bizarre back story that
painted the group as lost 1970s psychedelic legends when releasing their first
cassette, 1989's Tarquin's Seaweed Farm. Fusing dance and rock, the band's 1993
album Up The Downstair won them a bigger audience. They began touring heavily,
resulting in the expansive, progress...
