Comments on: Porcupine Tree, Manchester Academy, 30 Sep 2006

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:56:50 +0000

You incompletist, you!

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:53:00 +0000

I don’t remember ‘Buying New Soul’ at all; but I don’t have “Recordings”, so wouldn’t have recognised it.

I could still have done without ‘Open Car’ or ‘Start of Something Beautiful’, both of which they played last time around. At least we were spared the forgettably sub-Coldplay ‘Lazarus’ this time around. I dread to think what would have happened had that been a hit. Come to think of it, ‘Arriving Somewhere’ is the only “Deadwing” song that really stands up compared with the four numbers they played from “In Absentia”.

By: NRT

NRT — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:19:22 +0000

To be picky, ‘Buying New Soul’ is from ‘Recordings’ (2001). This was also part of the tour promoting the ‘Arriving Somewhere…’ DVD, not the ‘Stupid Dream’ reissue, so the setlist was always going to be drawn from the former, not necessarily the latter. Likewise, with 50 mins of brand new music in the first half, the chances of novel choices (from that restricted DVD tracklist, remember) in the second half were low.

I loved the new material – it blows the almost ‘pop-rock’ ‘Deadwing’ out of the water!