Steven Wilson tour dates 2026

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• Outstanding musicianship great Venue Nice people. Steven thinks its impossible to make Keyboards sexy which i thought was hilarious as he looked at his keyboardist. I wish i shouted out Gowan as maybe he has never heard about the Canadian Legend. I like how he addressed the crowd in between songs to discuss the songs or a type of music. I love the To The Bone 2018 album i think they played Pariah 2nd off at the go. I was dying to see the female vocalist come out and crush that song. However they did it to a video instead which was still great but I really wanted see her sing it live..maybe next time?

  I picked out so many styles of music for this Progressive Rock giant. Mesmerizing, psychedelic, jazz, Pop, Rock, Metal along with interesting Videos float you along a musical cloud with higher and lower intensity's. Well done guys and keep coming back to the USA and Canada!

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  by frank-brotzner

• If anyone thinks rock is dead, they haven’t witnessed the psychedelic rock thunder of Steven Wilson ... in 21 time signature no less. The show was originally scheduled for last week at the Phoenix, but due to a water main break was rescheduled to last night at the Opera House.

  So there I was at the Opera House last evening with good friends Rob and Kim Stuart, who kindly treated me to a fabulous evening of music. Wilson, ex member of Porcupine Tree (which I have to admit I didn’t know anything about before discovering Wilson about 4 years ago) is a totally engaging frontman who is in full control of the incredible musicians he has with him on tour. With the nod of his head, the point of his finger ... or just a look ... the band immediately responded to the ever changing tempo of his multilayered musical creations, none of which seem to come in at less than 10 minutes of ear exploding glory.

  I highly recommend “Home Invasion/Regret #9” (from the album “Hand. Cannot. Erase.”) as a solid example of what I’m trying to describe. The band covered this epic song early in the 1st set, to my great enjoyment.

  Wilson was very chatty and quite humorous during the show (his 2nd in Toronto this year) commenting on such things from the gender make up in the audience to the unfortunate decline of the guitar in music today. He asked who in the audience was under 25 years old and then held his ‘63 Stratocaster in the air, proclaiming to them “This is a guitar.” In another interesting moment, Steven admitted to being a child of the eighties where he grew up listening to Depeche Mode and the Cure, et al. But surprisingly he saved his highest praise for his favourite artist while growing up ... Prince. The band then broke into a thumping, yet honest version of Sign of the Times.

  Two sets and 2 1/2 hours of some of the greatest musicianship I’ve witnessed live, since Frank Zappa's tightly wound bands of the 70's and 80's. Nice

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  by rob-stuart

• STEVEN WILSON

  "LIVE @ THE VIC"

  (WEDNESDAY, MAY 2ND)

  Steven and his amazing band performed TWO shows in the same venue, a rarity for this tour... And, as promised, whenever that is the case the setlist varies between the two nights. He tends to play his usual set on night #1, with variations on night #2...

  We saw night #2...

  Steven's fine New release, "To The Bone" is far more Pop oriented than his previous work. I love his NEW direction, some of his fans do not..

  For starters, he started the show with the CD's title track, a rarity for this your (it's one of my favorites). The rest of set #1 focused on "Hand Cannot Erase" with the third song "Home Invasion\Regret #9" hitting an early show highlight!.. The instrumental "Ancestral" was a 10 minute prog-rock powerhouse.

  Set #2 started with another new rocker "People Who Eat Darkness" before settling in for some of the controversial (to some..) Pop songs : "Don't Hate Me", "Song Of I" and the very ABBA like "Permanating". But the set ended with two of the heaviest songs ever performed by SW, "Vermillioncore" (where the lights and visuals were absolutely stunning) and "Sleep Together", a hold over from his Porcupine Tree days...

  The encore included some big surprises (you can look those up elsewhere) but ended with perhaps his finest composition to date, "The Raven That Refused To Sing"...

  Did I mention the screen with videos and holograms?

  Or the true Quadrophonic Sound system?

  We drove 5 hours to see this show. This was my 8th show featuring Porcupine Tree\Steven Wilson.

  In my mind it was time and money very well spent.

  (Steven reportedly recorded one of his Royal Albert Hall shows for future release. Those who foolishly passed on this your can then see what they missed...)

  Many Thanks to Steven Wilson, his amazing Band and Road Crew!!...

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