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Dave Ling

“I loved working with bands like Opeth and Marillion. I was starting to get a name for myself. But my New Year resolution was to learn to say ‘no’”: In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way

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AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - OCTOBER 12: Leadsinger Steven Wilson of British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree performs on stage at the Heineken Music Hall on October 12, 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Paul Bergen/Redferns).

By 2009 Steven Wilson had already been leading Porcupine Tree for 22 years, and he’d developed a reputation for reinvigorating the world of prog metal and remastering prog rock classics. He’d also just released his debut solo album, Insurgentes – and as he told Prog, he was wondering if it might take him anywhere…

Steven Wilson is among the most prolific figures in the world of progressive music, his best-known groups Porcupine Tree, Blackfield and No-Man being responsible for many of the most consistently appealing – not to mention stylistically diverse – records of the past two decades. The latest of these is Insurgentes, his long-awaited debut solo release.

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