PORCUPINE TREE drummer Gavin Harrison is featured in a new interview with Heavy Metal Examiner's Mark Morton. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: You’re more recent tours have done increasingly well, despite the lack of radio/video support, especially stateside. Do you think that is a testament to the fans or the quality of musicianship?

Harrison: "No, I think it is has been a really, really slow burn. The band has been touring since 1993. Even when I joined the band in 2002, we were playing some really tiny places. And honestly, I think it’s been word of mouth slowly building up. Obviously the record companies and promotion companies have spent time and money on us, but we never thought we would go massive overnight.

We don’t write commercial singles that are suddenly going to be on the charts, and we don’t expect to go from playing 400-seat club to a 40,000-seat arena overnight. It’s been a very slow, gentle upward curve, which I think is good, because it’s not an overnight success, and I think it has longevity. People are coming not because of the hype of one single they’ve heard on the radio or on MTV; they genuinely like the show and they tell their friends.

So every year, it’s a sort of compound effect – more and more people are coming and bringing their friends along. Although for some people, we might seem an overnight success, honestly it’s taken us what, 17 years to become an overnight success?"

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Porcupine Tree's live schedule is now as follows:

September

18 - The Warfield - San Francisco, CA
19 - Club Nokia - Los Angeles, CA
21 - House of Blues - Cleveland, OH
22 - Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
24 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY
26 - Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
27 - House Of Blues - Boston, MA

As previously reported, Porcupine Tree will be a special guest on the September 18th edition of IRON MAIDEN singer BRUCE DICKINSON's Friday Rock Show on BBC 6 in the UK.

The show airs from 9 PM - 12 AM in the UK. Listeners outside the UK you can tune-in online at this location between 4 - 7 PM (EST). If you are in the UK then you can listen on DAB Digital radio, on SKY and TV (SKY 0120, Freeview 707, Freesat 707, Virgin 909).