FuckyeahStevenWilson

From SW’s facebook page:

“Folks, just to clarify news elsewhere of a new Blackfield album coming this year - please note that this time my involvement will be as a contributor rather than a member. I will still be mixing the album, and maybe sing on a couple of Aviv’s songs (there will be other guest singers I understand), but with my complete blessing Blackfield is now under his sole curatorship, a process which really began with Welcome to My DNA.”

From Steven Wilson’s facebook page:

I’m happy to announce the second leg of the Grace for Drowning tour will start at the beginning of April and run through to mid May. Many shows have not been confirmed yet, but these are: 30th April - Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2nd May - 013, Tilburg, Netherlands, 6th May - Garage, Saarbrucken, Germany, 7th May - Theterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany, 9th May - Z7, Pratteln, Switzerland, 10th May - Alcatraz, Milan, Italy, 11th May - Orion, Rome, Italy, 13th May - FZW, Dortmund, Germany, 14th May - AB, Brussels, Belgium, 15th May - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK (ticket link below). Note that London will be the only UK date, and this time it will be standing not seated. I’m planning to introduce some new music into the show for this run, and we are also going to be filming one of the dates for a Blu-Ray / DVD release. All the tickets links and the rest of the dates will be announced here and on the gracefordrowning page in the next few days. See you there!

Link to the Shepherd’s Bush gig here.

sticksandtunes:

The second part of the Stereoboard interview is up.  Here’s two key excerpts from it.

Steven, talking about Porcupine Tree, the band has been dormant since the Royal Albert Hall show last year. What are your future plans with the band looking into next year?

Well, I have none to be honest. That is not to say that we will not get together at some point and do something but at the moment we are all doing our own things. I am having a great time doing what I am doing. I also have a record coming out next year with my friend Mikael (Åkerfeldt) from Opeth, the Storm Corrosion record. They are doing other things as well. We will get back together and we will make another record, I am fairly sure of that. At the moment, however, there really are no particular plans for Porcupine Tree.

[Emphasis added by me]

I noticed that you recently did a show with No-Man after a while of inactivity with that project. I was just wondering if you and Tim (Bowness, Steven’s collaborator in No-Man) have thought about doing another No-Man record at all.

Again, there are not really any plans. Tim and I get together at very irregular intervals to make records…I think it seems to be something like every five years or so. I guess that maybe in a couple of years we will actually be due for the next one! There are no plans but what I will say is that none of my musical projects are finished or over. For me it is nice to say that I have a number of creative outlets and collaborations that I can go back to at any time if I feel the muse is in that place. I have no plans to make records with any of these projects at the moment. That goes for No-Man, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, etcetera. That is not to say that it will not happen though, not at all. 

[Again, emphasis added by me]

So in other words, Steven just confirmed all non-solo stuff is on indefinite hiatus.  It’s not as bad as news of an outright breakup, but it’s still pretty tough news to swallow.  Although I’d probably have a much easier time swallowing the news if some Texas gigs show up on the list of second leg tour dates (hint, hint).