Thirty-three years ago, in 1993, Porcupine Tree<\/strong> stepped onto a stage for the very first time at The Nag’s Head in High Wycombe. At that point the project was still in its infancy, born from Steven Wilson<\/strong>‘s strange and sprawling experimental double album On the Sunday of Life<\/em>, released the year before. <\/p>\n Fast-forward to 2026 and Voyage 35<\/strong> are inviting fans to step back through the doors of what they call “The Nostalgia Factory”. Their new release is a reimagined cover of one of the standout moments from that debut album \u2013 an expansive eight-minute reinterpretation that channels the hazy magic of Porcupine Tree<\/strong>‘s earliest era. The track and accompanying video are out on April 3.<\/p>\n The track leans deep into the band’s formative DNA, when the ghosts of ’60s and ’70s space rock collided with bedroom psychedelia to create a drifting, hypnotic soundscape.<\/p>\n But while the past looms large, the project’s architects \u2013 former Porcupine Tree<\/strong> members Colin Edwin<\/strong> and John Wesley Dearth<\/strong> \u2013 are keen to push the music somewhere new rather than simply recreate it.<\/p>\n “There is so much love for the early Porcupine Tree<\/strong> material, and many people have expressed a desire to hear it again,” Edwin<\/strong> recently told Louder Sound<\/em>. “As the band evolved, much of this music fell by the wayside. It feels right to revisit it now with a fresh approach and new musical talent.”<\/p>\n Dearth<\/strong>, who joined the band’s touring line-up during its later years, echoes that excitement. “I’ve always been intrigued by the band’s early period,” he says. “I’m really looking forward to playing these songs live and seeing where we can take them.”<\/p>\n While Porcupine Tree<\/strong>‘s 2002 breakthrough In Absentia<\/em> famously helped kickstart a new wave of progressive rock, the decade of music that came before it remains sacred ground for longtime fans. Much of that early material was rarely \u2013 if ever \u2013 performed live.<\/p>\n Those who were there remember a very different atmosphere: slow-burning experimentation, extended improvisations and a kind of blissfully unfocused cosmic drift. The whole experience was amplified by the band’s immersive visuals, courtesy of the legendary Fruit Salad Lightshow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Now that visual magic is returning, too. Voyage 35<\/strong> will reunite with the original lightshow for a run of European dates this September, taking in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. And for fans planning to attend the London show, the band promise something extra: a few very special guests waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n 9\/4 Revislate IT Campo Sportivo Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n
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