Well, what can I say ... !!
That was an amazing sold out concert in a great venue - really quite intimate.
I have a new genre to describe Porcupine Tree -
Heavy Psychedelia
. Big emphasis on the heavy too.
A great sound - loud but so clear !
The gig opened with a 30 minute set by The Engineers.
Porcupine Tree came on to rapturous applause and commenced the play the whole of The Incident (CD 1). This sounds so much better live & with the video graphics brings the whole thing to life in a way a CD just cannot.
This was a special concert for them as it's the end of the current tour and the last time they'd play The Incident for a while, said Steven.
A 10 minute break followed which was
exactly 10 mins, with a count down timer on screen - nice touch !!
The remainder of the concert was a mixture of old & new tracks, with I think a change to the normal set list as a nod to their first appearance at Glasgow's King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, back in the mid 90's - they played Stars Die.
I think the set list was as follows (I've probably missed some out !):
Start of Something Beautiful
Russia on Ice / Anesthetize
Stars Die
Sound of Muzak
Trains
Normal
Bonnie the Cat
I you get a chance to see them - go for it - they're awesome !!!