Steven Wilson HQ News

No-Man live show

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 PST

To tie-in with the release of "Schoolyard Ghosts", the first new No-Man album in 5 years, No-Man will be performing their first live concert since 1993 at the Bush Hall, London, on August 29th (Doors open, 7.30-8pm). The gig will be filmed for possible DVD release. Tickets are available directly from the band at the No-Man store. The Bush Hall is only 350 capacity and the show is expected to sell out very quickly, so if you do plan on coming please get your tickets fast!

New Bass Communion CD/LP

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 PST

A new Bass Communion CD and LP will both be released by Important Records in the US on 22nd July. The CD "Moltov and Haze" contains 4 layered guitar drone pieces, 2 noisy (Molotov) and 2 transcendently beautiful (Haze). The album will be issued in the by now familiar miniature card gatefold sleeve, and you can hear extracts from it on the Bass Communion MySpace page. The LP is a collaboration recorded with Mexican noise / improv group Pig in February this year - "Live in Mexico City" will be a highly limited vinyl only release of 500 copies in special screen printed sleeves. Headphone Dust will have both items for sale, but sorry it's not possible to reserve a copy of the vinyl release at this stage.

Bass Communion live

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PST

SW will perform a Bass Communion set as special guest of Fear Falls Burning on 1st November at Theatre cc Luchtbal, in Antwerp, Belgium. He will be performing his recent explorations in guitar drone music (a CD "Molotov and Haze" is due for release on Important Records on 22nd July - you can hear extracts from it on the Bass Communion MySpace page). During the show Steven will also join Fear Falls Burning on stage as guest. Tickets and all relevant information available here.

Pacific Codex availability

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PST

Please note that although Pacific Codex by Bass Communion is limited and has sold out from this site, it is still currently easily available at very reasonable prices from both Solielmoon and Beta-Lactam Ring in the US. Certainly noone should be paying over the odds for it on eBay at this stage. Also news from Soleilmoon is that the first Continuum CD will be repressed shortly - originally limited to 1,000 copies, another 1,000 will be repressed to bring it in line with the edition of 2,000 pressed of Continuum II (of which only a handful remain).

No-Man Pre-ordering

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PST

The new No-Man album Schoolyard Ghosts is now available to pre-order from the No-Man online store. The CD/DVDA 2 disc set comes in a lavish digi-pack with booklet, the DVDA featuring a 5.1 mix of the album, a photo gallery and videos for 3 songs. In addition the first 2,000 copies sold from the store will come with an exclusive limited edition 6 track bonus CD of alternate versions of tracks from the album. Schoolyard Ghosts is officially released on May 12th, but the 3 disc pre-order No-Man store edition will ship in late April/early May. A vinyl version is in preparation, and a new t-shirt based on the album cover artwork is also now available to order.

No-Man microsite

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST

There is now a microsite dedicated to the new No-Man album "Schoolyard Ghosts". It includes a video for an edit of the song "Truenorth" (which runs over 12 minutes on the album itself). The No-Man MySpace page also includes extracts from the album, which is officially released on KScope / Snapper on 12th May. The first edition includes a stereo CD and 5.1 surround sound DVDA, with an additional exclusive bonus CD for copies pre-ordered from the No-Man store (details to be announced soon, please don't enquire about this yet).

New ToneFloat vinyl in stock

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST

Headphone Dust have 2 new ToneFloat vinyl releases, both with connections to SW: Anja Garbarek »Smiling and Waving« LP+7 inch £18.00 Recorded in 2000 in London, this strange and shimmeringly beautiful album won a Spellemannspris (Norwegian Grammy) in 2001. Smiling and Waving was produced by Anja and Steven Wilson, except for 2 tracks which were produced by Talk Talk's Mark Hollis. Additional contributions come from Robert Wyatt (whose own version of "Stay Tuned" from this album can be found on his most recent solo album "Comicopera"), Theo Travis, Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri. The first 500 copies of this LP edition are pressed on coloured vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with inner bag, and includes a 7 inch single in its own sleeve, featuring "I Won't Hurt You" and "Blinking Blocks of Light", two tracks that were only available for a short time as part of a Norwegian limited CD edition of the album. The Use of Ashes (ft. Bass Communion) »untitled« £8.00 (blue/orange) A 10 inch single that includes the original demo version of The Use of Ashes "Ice" (7.45) on side A and a Bass Communion reconstruction of The Use of Ashes "Mousehill Daydream" (10.07) on side B. The 10 inch comes in a PVC sleeve and is available on orange vinyl (limited to 250 copies), blue vinyl (250 copies) and clear vinyl (100 copies only). Please email hd@swhq.co.uk first to reserve a copy and request a price including shipping (please remember to tell us which country we will be shipping to). Also back in stock at Headphone Dust is Bass Communion's first CD, and the last remaining copies of SW's Cover Version 2, 3 and 4 CD singles, which are sold out elsewhere (there will be a repressing at some point, but not for a while).

No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 PST

No-Man's sixth official album, Schoolyard Ghosts, has been completed. Recorded in August/September last year, and Jan-March this year, the 53 minute album features 8 new songs, and will be issued on Kscope in mid-May. A deluxe 2LP vinyl edition will also be released by ToneFloat. Videos and audio previews will soon be available on-line. For more news, track listing, and details on the performer line-up, head on over to the official no-man site, or to Tony Kinson's revamped no-man - a confession site.

Pacific Codex available!

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 PST

Bass Communion's "Pacific Codex'' is finally here! You can order a copy now from Headphone Dust. ''Pacific Codex'' is possibly the most minimal and zen-like beautiful of all Bass Communion releases so far, a single 40 minute piece based entirely on processed and layered recordings of metal sculptures and gongs, creating complex waves of deep subharmonic sound. To fit with the oceanic theme, Carl Glover has designed an elaborate box set package which includes both stereo CD + 5.1 surround sound DVD-Audio discs housed in a thick card gatefold sleeve, a 36-page perfect-bound full-colour booklet, and a 2-sided thick card hand-numbered insert (975 copies), all housed in a super-thick case-bound card box (slipcase style). Equation Records in the US are now sold out and not accepting any more orders. To tie in with the release of ''Pacific Codex'', there is also a repress of the 2 disc edition of Bass Communion's "Ghosts on Magnetic Tape", which includes the original album and the full length Andrew Liles reconstruction in a miniature thick card gatefold sleeve. This will ship at the same time as Pacific Codex, and you can pre-order both releases together from Headphone Dust to save on postage costs.

We Lost the Skyline

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 PST

On the 4th October 2007 Porcupine Tree arrived for an in-store performance and signing session at Park Avenue CDs in Orlando, Florida, with 200 fans also in attendance. Although it was originally planned that the full band would play, lack of space dictated that it was only the 2 guitarists / singers Steven Wilson and John Wesley who delivered an impromptu performance, including many songs rarely (if ever) played by the band, making for a very special and intimate show. Fortunately this one-off performance was captured by a remote recording facility and the complete 8 song, 33 minute show is now being released in a digipack sleeve created by photographer Lasse Hoile and designer Carl Glover. The CD is available to pre-order now from the PT Store and is expected to ship in the week commencing 18th Feb. It will also be exclusively available to US retail through the Think Indie chain of independent stores. Dutch vinyl specialists ToneFloat will also release a quality 180gm vinyl edition of We Lost the Skyline in a gatefold sleeve, with a limited and numbered edition of 1,000 copies on marbled vinyl, and a regular edition on black vinyl. These editions will be released on 18th March, but will also be available to pre-order soon from the ToneFloat website. The Porcupine Tree store will also stock the vinyl editions once they are released. Full track listing for the album is: 1. the sky moves sideways (4.02) 2. even less (3.27) 3. stars die (4.33) 4. waiting (3.52) 5. normal (4.52) 6. drown with me (4.09) 7. lazarus (4.29) 8. trains (4.04)