South Florida Jams

Porcupine Tree was born in 1987 as a psychedelic, experimental, and progressive music outlet for the home studio explorations of Steven Wilson. In fact, Wilson had already been making music for several years, as a musically precocious teenager who taught himself to play guitar and keyboards, and whose early tape releases with bands such as Altamont and Karma had already become known in the London musical underground (these tapes, which included early versions of later PT tracks like "Nine Cats", "Small Fish," and "This Long Silence," would eventually become highly-valued collectables, a circumstance Wilson describes as "a bit like a painter having his nursery school blots exhibited". In December 2006, recording commenced on the band's ninth studio album. The album, Fear of a Blank Planet. Much of it was debuted the before recording on Porcupine Tree's sold-out U.S. and European tours in support of the release of "Arriving Somewhere...." The album title is a reference to the lyrical content of the song-cycle on the album: a 21st century cocktail of MTV, sex, prescription drugs, video games, the internet, terminal boredom, and subsequent escape. Fear of a Blank Planet was released in April for Europe and the rest of the world on Roadrunner Records and for the US on Atlantic Records. It quickly became the band's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album to date, charting high in most countries (even giving the band their first top 40 album in their home country), and selling 250,000 copies. The surround sound mix was nominated for a US Grammy award. For more information please visit www.porcupinetree.com

Advance Tickets $23 - All Ages - Show 8pm