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[[Image:Sutton island coast.jpg|thumb|The rocky coast of Sutton Island, ME. Eight foot [[tides]] are typical here. [[Mount Desert Island]] is visible in the Background.]]
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{{Infobox Musical artist| <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| Name = Steven Wilson
| Img = Steven Wilson (2007).jpg
| Img_capt = Steven Wilson live with Porcupine Tree at "Arena", [[Poznan]], [[Poland]].
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| Background = solo_singer
| Birth_name = Steven John Wilson
| Born = {{birth date and age|1967|11|3}}<br>[[Kingston Upon Thames]], [[England]]
| Instrument = [[Singing|vocals]], [[guitar]]s, [[Bass Guitar|Bass]], [[Piano]]/[[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[Mellotron]]
| Genre = [[Progressive rock]], [[Progressive metal]], [[Psychedelic rock]], [[Experimental rock]], [[Art rock]], [[Ambient music|Ambient]], [[Drone music|Drone]]
| Occupation = [[Musician]], [[Songwriter]], [[Record producer|Producer]]
| Years_active = 1987 - present
| Associated_acts = [[Porcupine Tree]], [[No-Man]], [[Incredible Expanding Mindfuck]], [[Bass Communion]], [[Blackfield]], [[Continuum (music project)|Continuum]], [[Anja Garbarek]], [[Fish (singer)|Fish]], [[Marillion]], [[Opeth]], [[Anathema (band)|Anathema]], [[Orphaned Land]]
| URL = [http://www.swhq.co.uk Steven Wilson Headquarters]
}}


'''Sutton Island''', in [[Hancock County, Maine|Hancock County]], [[Maine]], is a small, private island south of [[Mount Desert Island]], and north of [[Cranberry Isles, Maine]]. Its dimensions are roughly 2.1 km on its east-west axis by 1.1km north to south.
'''Steven John Wilson''' (born [[November 3]], [[1967]]) is the lead guitarist/singer/songwriter and the founder of [[progressive rock]] band [[Porcupine Tree]]. Wilson is also a [[Autodidacticism|self-taught]] [[record producer|producer]], [[audio engineer]], [[guitar]] and [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]] player (among other musical instruments).
It has a negligible permanent population, but is the site of many summer homes. The island has no roads, bridge to the mainland, nor airstrip. It is primarily accessed by mail boat from Northeast Harbor or by [[ferry]] or water taxi from [[Southwest Harbor, Maine]].


The island recently received international attention in the summer of 2008 due to its unorthodox mail delivery service, recently halted: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-03-maine-mail_N.htm
==Biography==
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Born in [[Kingston Upon Thames]], [[Surrey]], [[England]], but from the age of 6, brought up in [[Hemel Hempstead]], [[Hertfordshire]], [[England]],{{Fact|date=July 2007}} Wilson discovered his love for music around the age of 8. It began one Christmas when his parents bought presents for each other in the form of [[Gramophone record|LPs]]. His father and mother received [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[Dark Side of the Moon]]'' and [[Donna Summer]]'s ''[[Love to Love You Baby]]'', respectively. The young Steven spent much of his childhood listening to these albums in "heavy rotation", as he once commented. Both LPs would influence his future song writing. He claims "...in retrospect I can see how they are almost entirely responsible for the direction that my music has taken ever since." With Pink Floyd leaning him towards [[experimental music|experimental]]/[[psychedelic music|psychedelic]] [[Concept album|conceptual]] progressive rock (as exemplified by [[Porcupine Tree]] and [[Blackfield]]), and Donna Summer with her [[hypnosis|trance]]-inflected [[groove (popular music)|grooves]] (which [[No-Man]], Wilson's long-running collaboration with fellow musician and vocalist [[Tim Bowness]] initially adopted as its musical approach. Subsequently, the band's sound evolved and pursued a more meditative and experimental [[Talk Talk]]-esque approach).


There is a cemetery on Sutton Island, a report of which can be found here: http://www.cranberryisles.com/sutton.html#report
As a child, Steven was forced to learn the guitar, but he did not enjoy it; his parents stopped paying for lessons. However, aged 11, Wilson rescued a nylon string [[classical guitar]] from his attic and started to experiment with it; or in his own words, "...scraping microphones across the strings, feeding the resulting sound into overloaded reel to reel tape recorders and producing a primitive form of multi-track recording by bouncing between two cassette machines." It was clear that the eleven year-old displayed an early fascination with different possibilities of arranging and playing with sounds. At the age of twelve, his father who is an [[electronic engineer]], built him his first multi-track tape machine so he could begin experiment with the possibilities of studio recording.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/september_2002/porcupine.html|title=Porcupine Tree|publisher=Free Williamsburg|accessdate=2008-04-13}}</ref>


There are [[osprey]] on the island, including a nest on its NW shore that has been there for decades. Visitors are warned to be respectful of these rare birds and their offspring.
It didn't take too long before he began to form bands with his friends from school and play live. However, the thing which kept him truly satisfied was experimenting with sounds and producing the recordings he made.
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Between the years 1984 and 1986 he recorded material with [[Underground music|underground]] bands [[Steven Wilson discography#With_Altamont|Altamont]] and [[Steven Wilson discography#With_Karma|Karma]]. Some of those tapes have recently resurfaced due to the increasing popularity of Porcupine Tree. Wilson describes it as "...a bit like a painter having his nursery school paint blots on display..."
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He was only 15 years old when he recorded a tape with Altamont, called ''Si Vockings''. This particular work includes lyrics by Alan Duffy which Wilson later used for two Porcupine Tree songs: "This Long Silence" and "It Will Rain for a Million Years".

Around the same time he played with Altamont he was also in a band called Karma, which recorded two tapes: ''The Joke's on You'' (1983) and ''The Last Man to Laugh'' (1985), which contained the original versions of songs later used by Porcupine Tree, "Small Fish" and "Nine Cats" and "The Joke's On You," the latter of which can be found on the Staircase Infinities mini-EP.

Up to this point Wilson's diverse musical experiments contained [[avant-garde]] [[industrial music|industrial]], psychedelia (with Altamont) and progressive rock (with Karma). Steven's next step was forming two bands: [[No-Man]] and [[Porcupine Tree]].

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During the late 90's Wilson's love of experimental, drone, and ambient music began to manifest itself in a series of new projects, notably [[Bass Communion]] and [[Incredible Expanding Mindfuck]] also known as IEM. He also began to release a series of CD singles under his own name.

Later on, Wilson became known for the high standard of his production and was invited to produce other artists, notably the Norwegian artist [[Anja Garbarek]], and Swedish progressive-metal band [[Opeth]]. Though he claims to enjoy production more than anything else, with the demands of his own projects, he has mostly restricted himself to mixing for other artists in the last few years<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.swhq.co.uk/guest.cfm|title=Guest Appearances - Steven Wilson Headquarters|accessdate=2008-04-06}}</ref>.

More recently Wilson has become known for his [[5.1 Surround Sound]] mixes - the 2007 Porcupine Tree album ''[[Fear of a Blank Planet]]'' was nominated for a [[Grammy]] in the "Best Mix For Surround Sound" category<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/50th_Show/list.aspx#28 | title = "GRAMMY.com - 50th Annual GRAMMY Nominations List" | date = 2007-12-06 | accessdate= 2007-12-06}}</ref>. The album was also voted #3 album of the year by ''[[Sound and Vision (magazine)|Sound And Vision]]'' <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/features/2679/top-10-dvds-and-cds-of-2007.html| title = "Top 10 DVDs and CDs of 2007" | publisher = [[Sound and Vision (magazine)|Sound and Vision]] | accessdate= 2008-03-26}}</ref>. Wilson is now rumored to be working on several other surround sound projects, including remixing the [[King Crimson]] back catalogue <ref>{{cite web | url = http://bitstream.soundandvisionmag.com/blog/2008/01/scoop-ptree-in.html| title = " Ptree in Action, Crimson in Surround! " | accessdate= 2008-03-25}}</ref>.

Steven Wilson has recently began to write reviews for the [[Mexican]] edition of the [[Rolling Stone]] magazine. They're all translated to [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. Two reviews have been published so far: one for [[Radiohead]]'s ''[[In Rainbows]]'' and other for [[Murcof]]'s latest work, ''Cosmos''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.voyage-pt.de/VPT-SWInterview20071113-English.pdf|title=No Fear of a Blank Planet|publisher=Voyage PT|date=2007-11-13|accessdate=2008-04-24}}</ref>

==Porcupine Tree==
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[[Image:Porcupine Tree STEVEN WILSON TS Wisła Kraków 004.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Steven Wilson photo of 2007]]
Porcupine Tree started out as a Wilson solo project, he began experimenting by recording music in his home until he had the hunch it could become someway marketable so he poured the material subsequently into three demo tapes (''[[Tarquin's Seaweed Farm]]'', ''[[Love, Death & Mussolini]]'' and ''[[The Nostalgia Factory]]''). For the first tape, he even wrote an inlay introduction to an obscure (imaginary) band called "The Porcupine Tree", suggesting the band met in the early '70s at a rock festival, and they had been in and out of prison many times. The booklet also contained information about band's obscure members like Sir Tarquin Underspoon and Timothy Tadpole-Jones, and crew members like Linton Samuel Dawson (if put into initials formed [[LSD]]). Wilson: "It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!"<ref name="DPRP">{{cite web|url =http://www.dprp.net/proghistory/index.php?i=1999_01|title = DPRP - Counting Out Time | publisher = The Dutch Progressive Rock Page | accessdate = 2008-03-01}}</ref>. When Wilson signed to [[Delerium Records|Delerium]] label, he selected what he considered the best tracks from these early tapes, all those song were mastered and made the Porcupine Tree's first official studio album, ''[[On the Sunday of Life|On the Sunday of Life...]]''.

Quickly, Wilson would push his music towards a more contemporary area by releasing the [[Single (music)|single]] "[[Voyage 34]]", a thirty-minute long piece that could be described as a mixture of [[ambient (music)|ambient]], [[trance (music)|trance]] and [[psychedelia]]. With non-existent [[radio]] play it still managed to enter the ''[[NME]]'' [[indie (music)|indie]] [[music chart|chart]] for six weeks and became an underground [[relaxation|chill-out]] classic. <ref name="Porcupine Tree Biography">{{cite web|url = http://www.porcupinetree.com/background.cfm|title = Porcupine Tree Biography|| accessdate = 2007-05-15}}</ref>

The second full-length album, ''[[Up the Downstair]]'', was released in 1993 and had a very good reception, praised by ''[[Melody Maker]]'' as "a psychedelic masterpiece... one of the albums of the year"<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.snappermusic.com/ms/porcupinetree/|title = Porcupine Tree's Digital Releases|publisher = [[Snapper Music]] | accessdate = 2008-02-02}}</ref>. This was the first album to include ex-[[Japan (band)|Japan]] member, [[keyboardist]] [[Richard Barbieri]] and [[Australian]] [[bassist]] [[Colin Edwin]]. About the end of the year, Porcupine Tree became a full band for the first time with the inclusion of [[Chris Maitland]] on [[Drum kit|drums]].

Wilson continued exploring the ambient and trance grounds and issued ''[[The Sky Moves Sideways]]''. It also entered the ''NME'', ''Melody Maker'', and ''[[Music Week]]'' charts<ref name="Porcupine Tree Biography"/> and many fans started hailing them as the [[Pink Floyd]] of the nineties, something Wilson would reject: "I can't help that. It's true that during the period of 'The Sky Moves Sideways', I had done a little too much of it in the sense of satisfying, in a way, the fans of Pink Floyd who were listening to us because that group doesn't make albums any more. Moreover, I regret it"<ref name="DPRP"/>. Anyway, it still remains a fan's favourite.

The band's fourth work, ''[[Signify]]'', included the first full-band compositions and performance, which resulted in less use of drum machines and more band-like sound. It can be considered a departure from its predecessors for a more song-oriented style<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/ptree03.html|title="Porcupine Tree (Review/Interview)|publisher=Aural Innovations|date=July 1999|accessdate=2008-04-03}}</ref>. From now on, the band would follow this path. Just after the release of the live album ''[[Coma Divine - Recorded Live in Rome|Coma Divine]]'', they finished deal with Delerium in 1997, they moved to [[Snapper Music|Snapper]] and issued two poppier albums, ''[[Stupid Dream]]'' in 1999 and ''[[Lightbulb Sun]]'' in 2000, both achieved very impressive success.

Two years would pass until their sixth studio album, and in the meantime the band switched label again, this time signing to [[Lava Records|Lava]], and drummer [[Chris Maitland]] quit to be replaced by [[Gavin Harrison]]. Now with the support of a major label, ''[[In Absentia]]'' saw the light in 2002, featuring a heavier sound than all its previous works. It charted in many [[Europe]]an countries and remains one of the top-selling Porcupine Tree albums by now, it was also their first record to be released in [[5.1 Surround Sound]], in a special edition of 2004 that shortly after won the "Best Made-For-Surround Title" award for the Surround Music Awards 2004. Another two years elapsed before its follow-up, ''[[Deadwing]]'', an ambitious and very cohesive record, inspired on a film script by Steven Wilson and his friend Mike Bennion, which came to be the first Porcupine Tree album to chart the [[Billboard 200]], entering at #132. The album was prizewinning for the "Album Of The Year" award on the ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'' magazine awards<ref name="Steven Wilson - The Complete Discography (6th Edition)">{{cite web|url =http://www.voyage-pt.de/swdisco.pdf|title =Steven Wilson -The Complete Discography (6th Edition), p. 111|| accessdate =November 2005}}</ref> and its surround version received the "Best Made-For-Surround Title" once again<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.surroundexpo.com/awards.shtml | title = "Surround Expo 2005" | date = 2005-12-15 | accessdate= 2005-12-15}}</ref>.

Steven Wilson started writing Porcupine Tree's next album in early 2006, in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]], (he was staying there working on the second album for his side-project, [[Blackfield]]). Writing sessions finished in [[London]], [[UK]], in June, 2006, then in August of the same year, the band released their first live [[DVD]], titled ''[[Arriving Somewhere]]'' and started a tour between September and November to promote it, where they played the whole forthcoming album at the first half of the shows. When the tour concluded the band went to studio and finished recording and mastering and added the last touches to the album. In early January, 2007, the band revealed the album title was going to be ''[[Fear of a Blank Planet]]'', and the concept was influenced by [[Bret Easton Ellis]] novel [[Lunar Park]]. The album hit the shops on April 16, 2007 in [[Europe]] and April 24 in [[USA]]. Despite lyrics cite the most commons 21st Century issues such as technology alienation, prescription drugs and [[attention deficit disorder]].

{{cquotetxt|I'm not really a big fan of trying to send messages within music. I always feel like the music should be like a mirror to what's happening in the world at any given time, you hold it up and let people make up their own minds about what they see reflected back at them.|Steven Wilson|Prograrchives.com<ref name=Progarchives>{{cite web | url = http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=37160&FID=47 | title = "Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, April 2007 posts on Progressive Rock Forum by Progarchives.com | accessdate = 2007-04-22}}</ref>|}}

''Fear of a Blank Planet'' resulted in the most successful album to date in terms of market and sales, and also received the most favourable reviews of the band's whole career. It entered the Billboard 200 at #59, and charted in almost all European countries, peaking at #31 in the UK. It was nominated for a US [[Grammy]], and won several polls as the best album of the year (e.g. ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'' magazine, Aardshock, The Netherlands).

==No-Man==
{{main|No-Man}}
No-Man is Wilson's long term collaboration with singer [[Tim Bowness]]. Influenced by everything from ambient music to hip-hop, their early singles and albums were a mixture of dance beats and lush orchestrations. However, after a few years the duo started to create more textural and experimental music, most comparable with later [[Talk Talk]]. Beginning with ''[[Flowermouth]]'' in 1994, they have worked with a very wide palette of sounds, and many guest musicians, blending balladry with both acoustic and electronic sounds. No-Man was the first Wilson project to achieve any degree of success, signing with UK independent label [[One Little Indian]] (the label of [[Björk]], [[The Shamen]] and [[Skunk Anansie]] among others), an releasing a string of critically acclaimed singles. However, although the band still continues to this day they never achieved the same commercial success of Porcupine Tree.

==I.E.M.==
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In 1996 came the first in a series of albums by I.E.M. (The Incredible Expanding Mindfuck), dedicated to exploring Wilson's love of [[krautrock]] and experimental rock music. Initially Wilson had planned for the project to be anonymous, but then label Delerium Records published a song on their Pick N Mix compilation with the composition credited to "Steven Wilson" and so attempts to pass off the project in this way were abandoned<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.porcupinetree.com/background.interviews.cfm?press=1471#i| title = " Porcupine Tree Interviews: Record Collector November, 1996 Issue 207 " | accessdate= 2008-03-25}}</ref>. The project released 2 more albums ''[[Arcadia Son]]'', and ''[[IEM Have Come For Your Children]]'', both in 2001. Since then the project appears to be dormant.

==Bass Communion==
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In 1998 Wilson launched another solo project Bass Communion, dedicated to recordings in an [[ambient music|ambient]], [[drone]], and/or electronic vein. The atmosphere of the music has tended towards the dark and melancholic, but expressed with an almost Zen-like beauty. More recently Wilson has also started working with a guitar and laptop configuration to create fuzzy power drones. So far there have been several full length Bass Communion CDs, vinyl LPs, and singles, many of them issued in handmade or limited editions (which sell out very quickly) in elaborate packaging. Bass Communion has collaborated with many leading experimental musicians such as [[Muslimgauze]], [[Robert Fripp]], [[VidnaObmana]] (on the ongoing [[Continuum (music project)|Continuum]] project), Jonathan Coleclough, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, and several others.
[[Image:Blackfield-NYC-01.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Steven Wilson during a Blackfield performance at New York, in 2005]]

==Blackfield==
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In 2001 Wilson met and began to collaborate with [[Israeli]] [[rock music|rock]] star [[Aviv Geffen]], with whom he created the band [[Blackfield]]. Since then the duo have released two highly acclaimed albums of what they refer to as "melodic and melancholic rock". The albums spawned several hits, notably "Blackfield", "Pain" and "Once". The band has toured several times, and a live DVD of their show in New York was released in 2007. Wilson splits his living time between [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]] and [[London]], [[UK]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3246992,00.html|title=Porcupine Tree frontman enjoys life in Israel - Israel Culture, Ynetnews|date=2006-05-04|accessdate=2008-04-14}}</ref>

==Solo works==
In 2003 Wilson started to release a series of two track CD singles under his own name, each one featuring a cover version and an original SW song. The choice of cover versions was unpredictable, with the first 5 featuring songs by Canadian singer [[Alanis Morissette]], Swedish pop group [[Abba]], UK rock band [[The Cure]], Scottish songwriter [[Momus (artist)|Momus]] and [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]. He has also released some of his experiments in electronic music as a CD and 2LP set called "Unreleased Electronic Music". These are released on his own [[Headphone Dust]] label.

Wilson is now working on his first official solo album, ''[[Insurgentes]]'', recorded all over the world between January-August, and due for release in November as a double CD plus a DVD-A (limited to 3,000 copies) and a 4 x 10 inch vinyl version (limited to 1,000 copies), both with hardback book. Both editions will only be available to order from www.insurgentes.org. A standard retail CD version will be issued early in 2009.

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==Current works==
Steven has also signed on to produce the next album of [[Israeli]] [[progressive metal]] band, [[Orphaned Land]]. During the Porcupine Tree tour, in the fall of 2007, with [[Anathema (band)|Anathema]] as the support band, it was announced that Steven will mix their new album. Work on this album will start "late spring/early winter 2008".

==Collaborations==

*Currently, he is planning to record a collaborative album with [[Sweden|Swedish]] band [[Opeth]]'s singer, guitarist and composer [[Mikael Åkerfeldt]], which will also involve [[Dream Theater]] drummer [[Mike Portnoy]]. According to his MySpace page this is "not looking very likely for a long time".

*He will be producing the next album of Israeli band [[Orphaned Land]], titled ''[[The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOr]]''.

*He [[record producer|produced]] and contributed [[Backing vocalist|backing vocals]], [[guitar]] and [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]] for [[Opeth]] on the albums ''[[Blackwater Park]]'', ''[[Deliverance (Opeth album)|Deliverance]]'', and ''[[Damnation (album)|Damnation]]''.

*Has collaborated on many projects with Belgian experimental musician Dirk Serries of [[VidnaObmana]] and [[Fear Falls Burning]], most notably on their collaboration project [[Continuum]] which has so far released 2 albums.

*Has also worked with [[OSI (band)|OSI]], [[Marillion]], [[Paatos]], [[Theo Travis]], [[Yoko Ono]], [[Fish (singer)|Fish]], [[Cipher]] and [[Anja Garbarek]].

*He is featured on the latest Fovea Hex EP "Allure" (Part 3 of the "Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent" trilogy of EP's) on bass guitar. The EP was released in April, 2007 through Die-Stadt Musik.

*He made a guest appearance on [[Dream Theater]]'s newest album, ''[[Systematic Chaos]]'' on the song "[[Repentance (song)|Repentance]]", as one of several musical guests recorded apologizing to important people in their lives for wrongdoings in the past.

*Wilson did and interview with one of the resposibles of the [[Krautrock]] movement, [[Germany|German]] [[musician]] and [[composer]] [[Klaus Schulze]], featured as bonus material in his first Live DVD, ''Rheingold''<ref>[http://www.myspace.com/klausschulzerheingold MySpace.com - Klaus Schulze Rheingold DVD]. Rheingold DVD's MySpace (2008-09-11). Retrieved on 2008-10-07.</ref>.

==Equipment==
===Recording studio===

*[[PowerMac G5]] running Logic 7

*[[Digidesign]] [[mixing console|Mix]] [[Time-division multiplexing|TDM]] system

*[[Apple Computer|Apple]] EXS24 [[virtual]] [[sampler (musical instrument)|sampler]]
*[http://www.apogeedigital.com/ Apogee] Trak2 [[microphone|Mic]] [[preamplifier|Pre Amp]]/A-D converter

*[[Georg Neumann GmbH|Neumann]] U87 microphone

* [[Line 6]] Pod + DL4 Delay

* [[Paul Reed Smith]] guitars

* [[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]] Telecaster

===On stage===
*[[Paul Reed Smith]] Custom 22 guitars, Singlecut and Modern Eagle

*[[Babicz Guitars|Babicz]] Acoustic Guitars and Octane Acoustic/Electric

*[[Gibson Les Paul]]

*[[Wah-wah]] and [[Loudness|volume]] [[effects pedal|pedals]]

*[[Bad Cat]] two tone [[Distortion#Guitar sound|distortion]]

*[[BOSS]]{{dn}} distortion

*Carl Martin [[Audio level compression|compressor]]
*[http://www.tcelectronic.com/ TC] [[G System|G-System]] effects [[audio signal processing|processor]]

*[[Bad Cat]] [[Bad Cat#Lynx|Lynx Head]] [[amplifier]] with 4x12 matching Cabinet

*[[Bad Cat]] [[Bad Cat#Hot_Cat|Hot Cat]] [[amplifier]] with 4x12 matching Cabinet

* [[ESP Guitars|ESP]] [[Stratocaster]] (used onstage up until the ''[[In Absentia]]'' tour, where he switched to [[Paul Reed Smith]] guitars.)

* [[Boss Corporation|Boss]] DD-20 delay and RT-20 rotary twin pedal effects

==Barefooted==
For live shows Wilson plays with bare feet. This particular custom goes back to his early childhood, where he remembers: "I always had a problem wearing shoes and I've always gone around with bare feet"<ref name = Rockeyez>{{cite web | url = http://www.rockeyez.com/interviews/int-porcupine-tree.html | title = "Interview: Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) | publisher = Rock Eyez | date = 2005-05-12 | accessdate = 2008-03-10}}</ref>. He also adds that another factor on performing barefoot is the advantage it gives in operating his diverse guitar pedals<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dprp.net/specials/porcupinetree/index.html | title = "Specials - Steve Wilson Interview" | publisher = The Dutch Progressive Rock Page | accessdate = 2008-03-10}}</ref>.

Wilson: <blockquote>"I’ve stepped on nails, screws, drawing pins, stubbed my toe, I’ve come off stage with blood just coming out… I mean, I’ve had it all mate, but to be honest, nothing’s going to stop me."<ref name = Rockeyez/></blockquote>

He uses a carpet on stage to keep his feet protected.

==Discography==
{{main|Steven Wilson discography}}
{{seealso|Porcupine Tree discography}}

==References==
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==See also==
*[[List of hammered dulcimer players]]

==External links==
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*[http://www.swhq.co.uk Steven Wilson Headquarters]
*[http://www.porcupinetree.com Porcupine Tree Official Website]
*[http://www.no-man.co.uk No-Man Official Website]
*[http://www.blackfield.org Blackfield Official Website]
*[http://www.voyage-pt.de/swdisco.html Steven Wilson's Complete Discography]
*[http://www.last.fm/music/Steven+Wilson Steven Wilson at last.fm]
*[http://www.myspace.com/therealstevenwilson Steven Wilson's MySpace account]
*[http://www.theseaweedfarm.com/ The Seaweed Farm] - Steven Wilson related news
*[http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/ptree03.html Aural Innovations Review/Interview]
*[http://www.digitalburn.org/the-guitar-gear-of-steven-wilson-from-porcupine-tree/ Details and images of Steven Wilson's guitar gear]

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The rocky coast of Sutton Island, ME. Eight foot tides are typical here. Mount Desert Island is visible in the Background.

Sutton Island, in Hancock County, Maine, is a small, private island south of Mount Desert Island, and north of Cranberry Isles, Maine. Its dimensions are roughly 2.1 km on its east-west axis by 1.1km north to south. It has a negligible permanent population, but is the site of many summer homes. The island has no roads, bridge to the mainland, nor airstrip. It is primarily accessed by mail boat from Northeast Harbor or by ferry or water taxi from Southwest Harbor, Maine.

The island recently received international attention in the summer of 2008 due to its unorthodox mail delivery service, recently halted: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-03-maine-mail_N.htm

There is a cemetery on Sutton Island, a report of which can be found here: http://www.cranberryisles.com/sutton.html#report

There are osprey on the island, including a nest on its NW shore that has been there for decades. Visitors are warned to be respectful of these rare birds and their offspring. 44°16′21.8″N 68°15′22.6″W / 44.272722°N 68.256278°W / 44.272722; -68.256278

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