“The perception of what kind of band you are can count for so much… The hard lesson to learn is that the quality of the music counts for very little”: Steven Wilson on Porcupine Tree’s slow rise to success

Porcupine Tree.

When Porcupine Tree hit the UK Top 30 with 2009 album The Incident and finished their world tour playing the Royal Albert Hall, it meant they’d arrived after a 20-year struggle to secure status. In 2010 band leader Steven Wilson looked back with Prog, reflecting on what he’d learned.

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