Steven Wilson

Porcupine Tree to solo

Steven John Wilson was born on November 3, 1967 in Kingston upon Thames and raised from the age of six in Hemel Hempstead. Early bands included Altamont, Karma, and Pride of Passion, later Blazing Apostles, which dissolved in 1987. In 1987 he launched No-Man with Tim Bowness, whose first single "The Girl from Missouri" and a One Little Indian deal followed, and Porcupine Tree, whose debut On the Sunday of Life... came in 1992. Porcupine Tree, with Richard Barbieri, Gavin Harrison, and formerly Colin Edwin and Chris Maitland, went inactive in 2010 and reformed as a trio in 2021 for Closure/Continuation (June 24, 2022). He formed Blackfield with Aviv Geffen in 2001, left in 2014 and returned for Blackfield V (2016), and made a self-titled Storm Corrosion album with Mikael Akerfeldt in May 2012, which was nominated for a Grammy. He also records ambient and drone music as Bass Communion and krautrock as Incredible Expanding Mindfuck.

His solo albums are Insurgentes (2008, limited November 2008, retail March 9, 2009), Grace for Drowning (2011), The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (February 25, 2013, engineered by Alan Parsons), Hand. Cannot. Erase. (February 27, 2015, inspired by a documentary on Joyce Carol Vincent), To the Bone (2017), The Future Bites (2021, produced by David Kosten with Elton John on "Personal Shopper"), The Harmony Codex (September 29, 2023) and The Overview (March 14, 2025, two 20-minute tracks). The official site promotes Requiem for a Village for November 6, 2026, with the singles "On Chapel Slope" and "A Basket of Bees". Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (November 2, 2018) was filmed on March 29, 2018, the third of three nights.

As a producer and mixer he worked on Opeth's Blackwater Park, Deliverance and Damnation, Anja Garbarek and Anathema, and made surround and stereo remixes for Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Marillion, XTC's Nonsuch (2013), Yes (2018), The Who and Roxy Music. He has six Grammy nominations, won the Progressive Music Awards Guiding Light award in 2012 and album of the year for The Raven in 2013, and has co-hosted the podcast The Album Years with Tim Bowness since May 2020. His live band is Nick Beggs, Adam Holzman and Craig Blundell, with Randy McStine on guitar in 2025.