PORCUPINE TREE Members Update - BLACKFIELD Tour Dates, GAVIN HARRISON Drum Clinics And More The following updates regarding members of
PORCUPINE TREE have been posted at the band's official website:
BLACKFIELD (the collaboration between Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen) have announced several tour dates in Europe and the US to promote their new album Blackfield (II), which is issued next month in Europe (on Snapper Music) and in early March in the US (Atlantic Records).
So far confirmed are:
February
17 - Mean Fiddler - London, England
18 - Plato - Helmond, Netherlands
19 - Biebob - Vosselaar, Belgium
21 - Knust - Hamburg, Germany
22 - Kato - Berlin, Germany
23 - Proxima Club - Warsaw, Poland
25 - Z7 - Pratteln, Switzerland
26 - Alcatraz - Milan, Italy
27 - Matrix - Bochum, Germany
28 - Café de la Danse - Paris, France
March 1 - Boerderij - Zoetermeer, Netherlands
4 - Fuzz Club - Athens, Greece
5 - Mylos Club - Salonica, Greece
12 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
17 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
More US dates to be announced shortly.
Gavin Harrison Drum Clinics In Italy....
Gavin will be making 12 drum clinics in Italy, starting at the end of this month. Details about the venues/contacts are available now on the Gavin Harrison
website.
New Lasse Hoile Website...
Lasse Hoile’s redesigned website has now officially launched. The site features a wide variety of Lasse’s work, including PT artwork and photographs. Check it out at
www.lassehoile.com. In other Porcupine Tree news, as previously reported, the first 2007 tour dates to coincide with the release of the band's new album in April, 2007 (through Roadrunner in Europe and Atlantic in the US) have been announced.
The tour will commence with the longest string of UK dates the band have undertaken for several years, which include:
April
18 - Glasgow, UK at ABC
19 - Newcastle, UK at Academy
20 - Preston, UK at 53 Degrees
22 - Nottingham, UK at Rock City
23 - Wolverhampton, UK at Wulfren
24 - Bristol, UK at Academy
25 - Cambridge, UK at Junction
26 - London, UK at Forum
Details of booking websites and telephone hotlines can be found
here. More tour dates announcements to follow.