Musician/songwriter/producer, Steven Wilson, has announced the North American leg of The Overview Tour, his first full-band solo headline run in the US and Canada in over seven years. These shows come in support of his upcoming Fiction Records album, The Overview, out March 14th. The Live Nation produced run starts September 9 at San Francisco, CA’s The Masonic and continue through mid-October, with stops at The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA, Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON, MTELUS, Montreal, QC, and Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY. Find the live listings and more below.
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“The Overview is a 42-minute long journey based on the reported ‘overview effect,’” says Steven Wilson, “whereby astronauts seeing the Earth from space undergo a transformative cognitive shift, most often experiencing an overwhelming appreciation and perception of beauty, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. However, not all experiences are positive; some see the Earth truly for what it is, insignificant and lost in the vastness of space, and the human race as a troubled species. As a reflection of that, the album presents images and stories of life on Earth, both good and bad.”
The Overview Tour celebrates the upcoming release what may well be the most audacious work of Wilson’s already visionary career. The Overview arrives in a wide range of formats, including digital, CD, LP, Blu-ray, D2C exclusive boxset, D2C exclusive red vinyl LP (with poster), and retail exclusive mint color LP. Written, produced, and mixed by Wilson at his home studio between December 2023 and August 2024, The Overview sees the world-renowned artist once again expanding the parameters of progressive music, a genre he has long helped redefine through both his groundbreaking solo career and landmark work with Porcupine Tree. The 42-minute collection is comprised of just two epic tracks, “Objects Outlive Us” and “The Overview,” each made up of distinctive musical sections that flow from one to the next, playing out as unique and continuous pieces. Once again, Wilson’s resolutely expansive music incorporates everything from glistening electronics to post-rock and beyond, pushing forward the singular sound and vision that has long defined his wildly ambitious body of work for more than three decades.
Although initially conceived as a solo recording, The Overview sees Wilson backed by frequent collaborators Craig Blundell (drums), Adam Holzman (keyboards), and Randy McStine (guitars), alongside lyrics from XTC’s Andy Partridge that help form the story that drives “Objects Outlive Us.” Consistent with Wilson’s illustrious reputation, The Overview will be presented as a true audiophile experience, with spatial/Atmos audio versions available both physically and digitally; vinyl editions of The Overview have been specifically mastered at half-speed at London’s Abbey Road by 3x GRAMMY® Award-nominated engineer Miles Showell (The Beatles, ABBA, The Police).
The Overview tracklisting:
01 Objects Outlive Us (23.17)
No Monkey’s Paw
The Buddha Of The Modern Age
Objects: Meanwhile *
The Cicerones
Ark
Cosmic Sons Of Toil
No Ghost On The Moor
Heat Death Of The Universe
02 The Overview (18.27)
Perspective
A Beautiful Infinity I
Borrowed Atoms
A Beautiful Infinity II
Infinity Measured In Moments
Permanence
Wilson will mark the arrival of The Overview with the wide-ranging EU/UK legs of The Overview Tour, including four shows at the historic London Palladium in London, England (May 12-13, 19-20) and a three-night stand at Paris, France’s famed Salle Playel. In addition, The Overview will be accompanied by a full-length film directed by Wilson’s longtime visual collaborator Miles Skarin. Both the film and the album will be officially unveiled with a world premiere event and exclusive Q&A session taking place on Tuesday, February 25 on Britain’s largest cinema screen, London’s BFI IMAX. Tickets for the premiere event are on sale now.
Steven Wilson live:
9/9 San Francisco, CA The Masonic
9/10 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
9/12 Phoenix, AZ The Van Buren
9/14 Denver, CO Paramount Theatre
9/16 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre
9/17 Chicago, IL Chicago Auditorium
9/19 Detroit, MI The Fillmore
9/20 Northfield, OH MGM Northfield Park
9/22 Toronto, ON The Danforth
9/23 Toronto, ON The Danforth
9/25 Montreal, QC MTELUS
9/26 Montreal, QC MTELUS
9/27 Quebec City, QC Theatre Capitol
9/29 Boston, MA The Shubert
9/30 Port Chester, NY The Capitol Theatre
10/2 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
10/4 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
10/7 Washington, DC Warner Theatre
10/9 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
10/11 Dallas, TX The Majestic Theater
10/13 Guadalajara, Mexico Auditorio Telmex
10/14 Mexico City, Mexico Pepsi Center WTC
10/17 São Paulo, Brazil Tokio Marine Hall
10/19 Santiago, Chile Movistar Arena
Wilson also has the previously-announced European tour dates all lined up.
5/1 Stockholm, Sweden Cirkus
5/2 Oslo, Norway Konzerthaus
5/4 Copenhagen, Denmark KB-Halen
5/6 Dusseldorf, Germany Mitsubishi Electric Hall
5/7 Brussels, Belgium Cirque Royal
5/9 Birmingham, UK Symphony Hall
5/10 Bristol, UK Beacon
5/12 London, UK The London Palladium
5/13 London, UK The London Palladium
5/15 Newcastle, UK O2 City Hall
5/16 Glasgow, UK Royal Concert Hall
5/18 Manchester, UK The Lowry
5/19 London, UK The London Palladium
5/20 London, UK The London Palladium
5/22 Amsterdam, Netherlands AFAS Live
5/24 Paris, France Salle Pleyel
5/25 Paris, France Salle Pleyel
5/26 Paris, France Salle Pleyel
5/28 Lyon, France Bourse Du Travail
5/29 Lyon, France Bourse Du Travail
5/30 Stuttgart, Germany Porsche Arena
5/31 Munich, Germany Zenith
6/2 Berlin, Germany Friedrichspalast
6/3 Hamburg, Germany Sporthalle
6/4 Warsaw, Poland Torwar
6/5 Gliwice, Poland Prezero
6/7 Milan, Italy Teatro Degli Arcimboldi
6/8 Rome, Italy Parco Della Musica
6/10 Zurich, Switzerland The Hall
6/11 Marseille, France Cepac Silo
6/12 Barcelona, Spain Para-lel 62
6/13 Madrid, Spain Riviera
More from Steven Wilson:
Steven Wilson is, among his many guises, a visionary solo artist, founding member of GRAMMY® Award-nominated British rock band Porcupine Tree, and pioneering spatial audio remixer known for his work with such artists as King Crimson, Yes, Tears For Fears, XTC, New Order, and many more. The Overview follows Wilson’s seventh solo studio album, 2023’s The Harmony Codex, which debuted at #4 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart amidst worldwide critical applause.
2022 saw the internationally acclaimed release of Porcupine Tree’s long-awaited eleventh studio album and first release in over 12 years, Closure/Continuation, which debuted at #2 on the UK Albums Chart and reached #1 in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. An epic world tour followed, making stops in North America, South America, and Europe before culminating with a triumphant sold-out show at London’s famed OVO Arena Wembley. 2022 also saw the publication of Wilson’s much-applauded first memoir, Limited Edition of One (Little, Brown).
What’s more, 2024 was highlighted by The Itself of Itself, the first full-length release from Wilson’s experimental solo project, Bass Communion, in more than 12 years. The album’s limited-edition release was celebrated with Wilson’s only live appearance of 2024, a sold-out performance at London’s intimate Cafe OTO, as well as the long-awaited arrival of the previous Bass Communion catalog at all leading streaming platforms.
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