13-05-2025
Steven Wilson review — a cosmic display of prog rock and comedy
For those of us who were children in the Seventies and Eighties, progressive rock was the closest music got to a proper, kid-friendly sci-fi adventure. Albums such as Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds and ELO's Out of the Blue promised all manner of thrills, even when the music went to places beyond our comprehension. Something of that spirit must have soaked into Steven Wilson, because at 57, the UK's reigning master of modern prog, currently at No 1 with his remix of Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii album, infused the first night of a run at the London Palladium with the same boyish energy.
Wilson, appearing on stage barefoot, was not afraid of bludgeoning the audience into submission with a
