Porcupine Tree 2007 Tour

[bammbamm]

Via Email this morning.

US ticket pre-sell

There will be a special Pre Sale, starting 1st March at 4pm local time, for the 12th May LA Show and the 25th May Boston show.

As a special bonus, we are offering the opportunity to Pre Order our official fan community. If you Pre Order the fan community with a presale ticket you will receive a limited edition t shirt and a special edition signed poster!

To get Pre Sale tickets and to Pre Order the fan community go to https://tixx1.artistarena.com/porcupinetree/

Pre Sales for the following shows will start 2nd March at Noon Local Time:

May 13th Anaheim
May 15th Boulder
May 17th Chicago

More presale dates and times will be announced on Friday.

If you guys like their music but haven't seen them, this is a great opportunity, they are great live.

Bamm

[Demiurge]

Thanks for the reminder! I had Ticketmaster set to tell me when PT tickets went on sale in Boston, but they didn't. But it looks like they're playing a venue that's general admission, and tickets were still available so I grabbed a pair(I'm sure my girlfriend will be "thrilled" haha). Any Boston people been to the Roxy? Is it as sketchy as it sounds?

Last time they came around, they played Berklee in Boston and it was incredible. They played almost all of their new album and then a bunch of stuff from Deadwing and In Absentia until Steve's voice crapped out.

[maestrocity91]

I love porcupine tree, but sadly Ive never seen them live
perhaps this is the chance ive been waiting for

[VanWyck]

Can't wait! NYC and Philly shows are nearby. Does anyone know if they change their setlist from night to night, or would I be seeing the same show in NYC as in Philly?

There is a sample from new album available on their youtube site. Enjoy!

[bammbamm]

1st Tree show in Chicago tonight, Robert Fripp is opening up.
SOLD OUT
Next show is June 1st (My B-day) I don't think I'll make that one, wifey has plans.

Anyway, if anyone here is going, lemme know, my offer of the 1st round stands for any shows I'm at. I've only met a small handful of Jemsiters, so the more the merrier. I'm there with my drummer tonight.

\\m// ~^#^~ \\m//

[Drew]

I've got tickets for May 25th in Boston, if anyone's going to that one as well. If anyone's on the fence, definitely go - Porcupine Tree is one of the best live bands I've ever seen, and their new stuff is the heaviest they've done yet. It should make for a hell of an evening.

[bammbamm]

Great show, but they had a blown tweeter on my side of the stage, so all the "S" sounds were raspy and sibilant.
That aside, they did a little of everything focusing mainly on the new album "Fear of a Blank Planet" The multimedia crapped out halfway through the show, it was a MAC... Hmm, so much for impervious and perfect, eh?
Anyway, the one thing that I thought was overdone was the disenfranchised youth popping pills in all the videos. About 75% of the songs featured that theme one way or another.
That said, they are STILL a great live show and excellent players so go see 'em. The did their encore with "Even Less", Blackest Eyes" and "Halo"

Great set.

Bamm sleep now.

[Demiurge]

Originally Posted by bammbamm

Anyway, the one thing that I thought was overdone was the disenfranchised youth popping pills in all the videos. About 75% of the songs featured that theme one way or another.

The video for the new album's title track is pretty much all shots of kids brandishing pills, guns, and playing video games, but I agree that Steve's fixation on that imagery (that pervades most of the album) is odd. The whole "dysfunctional kids" theme has been pretty much overdone by every single nu-metal band.

Still looking forward to the show, though. They played the new album in its entirety the last time they came through and they were awesome.

[Demiurge]

Boston show was last night- great performance although the sound was way too bassy at the beginning of the show. They played a couple songs I've never heard, one outtake from In Absentia called "Drown with Me," which was awesome. They played "Sever" from Signify so I was a very happy camper. I wish they would have played "Even Less," but I think they ran out of time. The club they were at, like most in Boston that have live music on weekends, try to have the live music early then at 10pm let DJ Popped-Collar and the Shiny Shirt Brigade take over the club.

[Drew]

Originally Posted by Demiurge

Boston show was last night- great performance although the sound was way too bassy at the beginning of the show. They played a couple songs I've never heard, one outtake from In Absentia called "Drown with Me," which was awesome. They played "Sever" from Signify so I was a very happy camper. I wish they would have played "Even Less," but I think they ran out of time. The club they were at, like most in Boston that have live music on weekends, try to have the live music early then at 10pm let DJ Popped-Collar and the Shiny Shirt Brigade take over the club.

I never followed up on this one.

That show was officially the drunkest I've ever been at a concert. I was there with my roommate and Chris from sevenstring.org as well as some girl he knew, and the three of us tend to drink our faces off whenever we hang out together. I remember the opener (I had no idea it was going to be 3 - "Wake Pig" is an awesome album), I remember most of the first set, but the second set is just gone. we did a LOT of Jager shots (I was one of three or four people buying rounds, and I racked up a $100 tab at the bar) and then got into that Moonshots caffinated beer **** because they had nothing else. I still don't entirely know how I got home.

I'd have felt bad about it, but that was like the third time I'd seen PT, and I was dead sober the first couple so I guess it was good to get the "watching PT smashed out of my mind" experience out of my system.

[bammbamm]

It sucks the show was cut short for "Faux" entertainment.
At least you got to go.
They are coming back around on June 1st (My B-day)
Dunno if I'll make that show or not.

Bamm

[bammbamm]

I need to try seeing them while completely twisted...

08-02-2007

Dates for the second leg of Porcupine Tree's North American Tour of a Blank Planet have been announced:

Wed 03 Oct - ORLANDO, FL, HOUSE OF BLUES
Sat 06 Oct - MEXICO CITY, METROPOLITAN THEATER
Tue 9th Oct - NASHVILLE, CITY HALL
Wed 10 Oct - ASHEVILLE, ORANGE PEEL
Thu 11 Oct - RALEIGH, NC, LINCOLN THEATER
Fri 12 Oct - WASHINGTON, DC, STATE THEATER
Sat 13 Oct - NEW YORK, NY, BEACON THEATER
Mon 15 Oct - QUEBEC, SALLE ALBERT - ROUSSEAU
Tue 16 Oct - TORONTO, ON, PHOENIX
Thu 18 Oct - ALBANY, THE EGG
Fri 19 Oct - HARTFORD, CT, WEBSTER THEATER
Sat 20th Oct - ATLANTIC CITY, THE SHELL AT TRUMP MARINA
Mon 22 Oct - CLEVELAND, OH, HOB
Tue 23 Oct - CINCINNATI, OH, BOGART'S
Fri 26 Oct - NEW ORLEANS, LA, VOODOO FEST
Sat 27 Oct - HOUSTON, TX, MERIDIAN
Sun 28 Oct - DALLAS, TX, HOUSE OF BLUES
Mon 29 Oct - ATLANTA, GA, ROXY

[Drew]

Originally Posted by bammbamm

I need to try seeing them while completely twisted...

08-02-2007

Dates for the second leg of Porcupine Tree's North American Tour of a Blank Planet have been announced:

Wed 03 Oct - ORLANDO, FL, HOUSE OF BLUES
Sat 06 Oct - MEXICO CITY, METROPOLITAN THEATER
Tue 9th Oct - NASHVILLE, CITY HALL
Wed 10 Oct - ASHEVILLE, ORANGE PEEL
Thu 11 Oct - RALEIGH, NC, LINCOLN THEATER
Fri 12 Oct - WASHINGTON, DC, STATE THEATER
Sat 13 Oct - NEW YORK, NY, BEACON THEATER
Mon 15 Oct - QUEBEC, SALLE ALBERT - ROUSSEAU
Tue 16 Oct - TORONTO, ON, PHOENIX
Thu 18 Oct - ALBANY, THE EGG
Fri 19 Oct - HARTFORD, CT, WEBSTER THEATER
Sat 20th Oct - ATLANTIC CITY, THE SHELL AT TRUMP MARINA
Mon 22 Oct - CLEVELAND, OH, HOB
Tue 23 Oct - CINCINNATI, OH, BOGART'S
Fri 26 Oct - NEW ORLEANS, LA, VOODOO FEST
Sat 27 Oct - HOUSTON, TX, MERIDIAN
Sun 28 Oct - DALLAS, TX, HOUSE OF BLUES
Mon 29 Oct - ATLANTA, GA, ROXY

Emphasis on "try."

No Boston dates? Man... I mean, I'll be out of the country that month anyway, but I'd rather know I missed them a T ride away than a 3-hour drive out to Albany...

[Andy43]

Originally Posted by bammbamm

Wed 10 Oct - ASHEVILLE, ORANGE PEEL
Thu 11 Oct - RALEIGH, NC, LINCOLN THEATER

YES! I'm going to both of these shows.

[jim777]

I need to see if I can get to the Beacon Theater show or the one in AC. I haven't seen them yet.