A. Lee Graham at Classic Rock Revisited recentyl spoke with Steven Wilson (ex-Porcupine Tree) about his highly anticipated forthcoming release, Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall. An excerpt is available below.

Lee: You’ve recorded several live video performances, either with Porcupine Tree or your solo band. I was wondering if recording this particular performance on one of the three nights entailed any special preparation above and beyond your usual concert recordings.

Steven: "I think the question has more to do with the show itself because the show took a lot of preparation — six months of preparation. Videos had to be shot, animations had to be made, and extensive rehearsals had to occur. There was even more repertoire not on the DVD. Sorting out the quadrophonic sound: all those things had to be in place by the time we arrived at the Hall, which was three or four months into the tour because in January, we wanted to add a little more value to the show.

For example, the Bollywood dancers in 'Permanenting', which is something we did especially for that show. So I think it was making sure everything we could possibly incorporate into the show was done on the night we knew we’d be filming with Ninet (Tayeb). We had to make sure she was there, too. I knew it was going down for posterity. There’s always a bit of extra pressure in a situation like that where cameras are running. One of the great things about being filmed on night three of a three-night run is we spent the previous night’s getting comfortable, getting to know the room, the dynamic balance between us and the audience. We were actually pretty relaxed by the time filming started on the third night."

Lee: There seemed to be a rapport among bandmates. Over the past couple years, you develop a camaraderie with Nick (Beggs, bass) and all the other members. I think it really comes across.

Steven: "We have a lot of fun. One of the things when I started down the road of having a solo band is I wanted it to be fun because in the past, I’ve been in bands when it really wasn’t so much fun. I wanted every night to be fun and for us to be able to be very relaxed. I think that comes across in the relationship I have with the audience. When you see me talking to the audience, you see I feel like I’m talking to a friend in a bar or something. It’s a very spectacular show, but it’s not a massive ego trip, do you know what I mean? That applies to the dynamic among the members of the band."

Read the complete interview here.

Steven Wilson has announced details of Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall, to be released on multiple formats on November 2nd through Eagle Rock Entertainment and limited edition deluxe vinyl via Caroline International on March 22nd, 2019. All pre-orders are live now, here. A trailer can be found below.

At the end of March 2018, Steven Wilson played a sell-out three night residency at one of the world’s most iconic venues: London’s Royal Albert Hall. Coming at the tail end of a lengthy European tour, these concerts were the crowning achievement of an incredible seven-month period that began with the release of Wilson’s fifth album, To The Bone. Released in August 2017, To The Bone charted at #3 in the UK and went top 10 all over Europe, rapidly becoming the biggest selling record in Wilson’s singular thirty-year recording career.

The three Albert Hall shows saw Steven and his virtuoso band present the songs from To The Bone and many more from a deep dive into his extensive back catalogue as part of a visually and sonically immersive experience. There, brain-twisting visuals met expansive 4D sound, making this most traditional of English venues feel like it was hosting a very different kind of Prom - more communion than concert.

Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall captures the last show of the three-night run and includes nearly 3 hours of live performance. The concert film release is put together from footage filmed on multiple cameras from every conceivable angle in the auditorium and on the stage, and the sound has been specially mixed by Steven in both 5.1 surround sound and stereo.

Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall will be released on November 2nd on DVD+2CD, Blu-Ray+2CD and digital video and audio. Caroline International will be releasing the limited edition deluxe vinyl on March 22nd, 2019.

Tracklisting:

Intro "Truth"
"Nowhere Now"
"Pariah"
"Home Invasion" / "Regret #9"
"The Creator Has A Mastertape"
"Refuge"
"People Who Eat Darkness"
"Ancestral"
"Arriving Somewhere But Not Here"
"Permanating"
"Song Of I"
"Lazarus"
"Detonation"
"The Same Asylum As Before"
"Song Of Unborn"
"Vermillioncore"
"Sleep Together"
"Even Less"
"Blank Tapes"
"The Sound Of Muzak"
"The Raven That Refused to Sing"

Bonus material:

• Interview with Steven recorded during the run of shows.
• Three tracks recorded in rehearsal at the Royal Albert Hall:

"Routine"
"Hand Cannot Erase"
"Heartattack In A Layby"

Trailer:

Steven Wilson four times Grammy nominated, the founder and front man of outsider rock band Porcupine Tree; a remixer for acts like Roxy Music, Simple Minds and XTC and a self-sufficient solo artist, hugely respected for a series of visionary LPs starting with 2008’s Insurgentes to 2017’s To The Bone.