“I felt the stage fright because the band just wasn’t good enough. I said, ‘This will be our last record.’ Then things began to take off”: Even lockdown couldn’t dampen The Pineapple Thief’s spirits when they released Versions Of The Truth

The Pineapple Thief.

Reinvention is the key to success – at least, that’s how The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord has always seen it. When King Crimson’s Gavin Harrison joined full-time in 2018, the band became tighter and more focused than ever. In 2020 the pair discussed powerful 13th studio album Versions Of The Truth.

If any band has got off lightly from the carnage wreaked on the music scene by Covid-19, it’s surely The Pineapple Thief. Their new album Versions Of The Truth was finished shortly after coming off a successful first tour of North America, before lockdown came into force; and while other bands ended up unable to share a rehearsal room or studio, let alone a stage, this band’s MO of remote songwriting collaboration didn’t require any adjustment.