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Porcupine Tree announce UK outdoor show for Summer 2023

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UK prog rockers Porcupine Tree will play Manchester's Castlefield Bowl on June 29

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Porcupine Tree have announced that the will play a major outdoor show in the UK, at Manchester's Castlefield Bowl on June 23.

The band, who reunited earlier this year for the Closure/Continuation album, which reached No. 2 in the UK album charts, have been on tour in North and South America, and are currently touring Europe, and will play a sold out show at London’s OVO Arena, Wembley on November 11.

There had been much speculation as to how long the band's current reunion might last, with the band reticent to look to far into the future, beyond the reunion album and the current run of dates, although Steven Wilson had admitted they weren't short of lucrative offers, but with his latest solo album, the follow-up to last year's The Future Bites, nearing completion, there was reluctance to commit beyond the current announced dates.

Now, with Manchester announced, you can expect further European Festival appearances to be announced.

Tickets for the Manchester show go on sale on Friday November 4 at 9.30am.

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Jerry Ewing
Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.