Well... luckily my friend who didn't think he could make the show, actually did. So the ticket crisis was averted.
As far as the concert went, it was my first Porcupine Tree show and I thought it was really, really good. I think Porcupine Tree is considered prog-rock. Authoritative drumming, rock solid bass lines, soaring guitar work and fantasy-like keyboards are placed against a landscape of video screens with images that run the gamut from dark and haunting faces to time-lapse photography played back at breakneck speeds, to a very strange and somewhat abusive Star Wars-like Clone Warrior robot couple to good old psychedelia. Just when things peak to their chaotic best, it all falls into an abyss of silence. Slowly, they reel you back in with the melodic strumming of an acoustic guitar and a lone soul-searching vocal, only to build up to their next crescendo. I guess Porcupine Tree can be summed up as a "study in contrasts". They definitely keep you guessing. Aside from two 10 minute breaks; it was 3 hours of music and no backup band. A very entertaining evening indeed.
SN
