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Porcupine Tree

Started in 1987 by Steven Wilson as a tongue-in-cheek homage to his boyhood heroes Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree gradually developed its own character and eventually eclipsed Wilson's main band of the time, No-Man. Wilson launched the band in Hertfordshire, England, and invented a suitably bizarre back story that painted the group as lost 1970s psychedelic legends when releasing their first cassette, 1989's Tarquin's Seaweed Farm. Fusing dance and rock, the band's 1993 album Up The Downstair won them a bigger audience. They began touring heavily, resulting in the expansive, progress...