Spiral Circus:Porcupine Tree

Artist: Porcupine Tree

Date Released: April, 1994

Label: Delerium

Produced By: Steven Wilson

Tracklisting:
 * 1) Burning Sky (11:02)
 * 2) Voyage 34 (5:32)
 * 3) Always Never (6:28)
 * 4) Radioactive Toy (9:58)
 * 5) Up The Downstair (7:15)
 * 6) Not Beautiful Anymore (8:58)

Review: Burning Sky - BBC / Borderline, London* Voyage 34 - Borderline, London, 7th Dec 1993 Always Never - BBC, 6th Dec 1993 Radioactive Toy - The Nag's Head, High Wycombe, 4th Dec 1993 Up the Downstair - The Nag's Head, High Wycombe, 4th Dec 1993 Not Beautiful Anymore - The Nag's Head, High Wycombe, 4th Dec 1993


 * First Half From BBC Live Broadcast, 6th Dec 1993 / Second Half From The Borderline, London, 7th Dec 1993

This is a fantastic and much overlooked early live offering, which was only available as a cassette before a vinyl re-issue was pressed in 1997, and needless to say both have long since been deleted and as such are collectors items in the extreme. It’s slightly odd that this one hasn’t come out on CD, or even been used as bonus disk for a deluxe issue of some sort – perhaps the master tapes have been lost in time?. Obviously some time down the line this recording was transferred from either cassette or vinyl to CD-R, but even so the quality is still very good and the early psychedelic vibes from the band are readily apparent in this essential primitive outing.