The Pineapple Thief announce headline Your Wilderness Tour featuring Gavin Harrison!
The Pineapple Thief have announced a string of European
dates for early 2017 in support of
their highly acclaimed new album, 'Your
Wilderness'. The band will be joined by virtuoso
Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson) on
drums. "We always said that we couldn't imagine
touring the material live without Gavin on stage", explains
band leader Bruce Soord,
”We’re so excited that we
have made it happen. It’s a real once in a
lifetime event."
The Tour starts: 20.01 in Patronaat, Haarlem NL -
click for tickets
The band will be performing Your Wilderness
plus a string of re-imagined favourites from their back
catalogue, and with an expanded
5-piece line-up including Darran
Charles on additional guitar duties, this will be a live
show not to be missed. Special guest support is from Kscope label
mates Godsticks.
Your Wilderness, their 11th studio album, showcases
the band performing without any inhibitions providing a
springboard for the ongoing creative growth of The Pineapple
Thief. For the first time, The Pineapple Thief brought in
several special guest performers: Gavin
Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King
Crimson) contributed drums throughout the album, John
Helliwell (Supertramp) some beautiful clarinet
parts, and Geoffrey Richardson (Caravan) provided a string
quartet. They were also joined by a 4-piece choir and to cap
it all off, Darran Charles(Godsticks) added some jaw
dropping guitar playing!
Seen as one of the most vital rock bands the UK has
produced over the last two decades, The Pineapple Thief was
formed in 1999 by founder and chief songwriter Bruce
Soord. The band has steadily evolved
and refined its sound with the bass playing of
Jon Sykes and the production and keyboards of
Steve Kitch vital ingredients of the
unmistakable TPT sound
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