PORCUPINE TREE
The Sky Moves Sideways TRANSMISSION
The sound of Steven Wilson’s solo project flowering into a band.
Having released de
facto solo albums
On The Sunday Of Life…
and Up The Downstair as
Porcupine Tree at the
dawn of the 90s, Steven
Wilson began to see that
the experimental rock
project he’d started as
a lark might actually
have legs. In ’93 he
recruited Chris Maitland
(occasional drummer for No-Man),
ex-Japan keyboardist Richard Barbieri
and bassist Colin Edwin, both of whom
had made some contributions to Up The
Downstair. Porcupine Tree set to work
en groupe, releasing an EP of Moonloop
and Stars Die in late ’94, with first
album, The Sky Moves Sideways,
following in February ’95.