“I’d have been up for having Slash on the album – but I’d have insisted he played the xylophone!” Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri pushed each other hard on their first album Not the Weapon But The Hand

Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri.

In 2012 Marillion’s Steve Hogarth and Porcupine Tree’s Richard Barbieri finally delivered an album they’d been hoping to make for years. Not the Weapon But The Hand pushed them both out of their comfort zones, and paved the way for 2023’s Waiting To Be Born. Ahead of their debut release they told Prog how it had come together at long last.

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