English alterna-prog heavyweights PORCUPINE TREE have announced their long-awaited maiden tour of Australia, to take place in April.

The tour, in support of their most recent album Fear Of A Blank Planet, will take in the east coast over three shows.

Tickets are $70.70 plus booking fee and go on sale at 9:00am on February 15th. The dates and venues are as follows:

April 25th - The Palace Theatre, Melbourne
Tickets from Ticketek (132 849) and Missing Link.

April 26th - The Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Tickets from Ticketek (132 849).

April 27th - The Tivoli Theatre, Brisbane
Tickets from Ticketek (132 849), Rockinghorse, Music Mania and Kill The Music.

Support acts are yet to be announced, so keep an eye on OzProg for more details.

The full press release is as follows:

Conceived in 1987 in Hertfordshire, England as a psychedelic, experimental and progressive music outlet for Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree have managed to defy genres and blend together numerous ambient, rock and avant-garde styles to create a musical landscape that is both refreshing and compulsively seductive. The hypnotic rhythms, spacy synthesizers, glissando guitar and crazy voices which made the style successful are all contained here.

Porcupine Tree is unquestionably one of the most difficult-to-categorize and innovative bands working today. The music is breathtaking, ranging from psychedelic trip-hop to progressive metal, combining intense musicianship, unconventional composition and superb studio production. They are unquestionably one of the UK's most inspired and inventive rock groups.

With the release of their 9^th studio album Fear Of A Blank Planet Porcupine Tree have produced a crushingly heavy masterpiece that has true meaning with or without the music. It’s a rare thing these days but Porcupine Tree seem able to do it time and again. This album is no exception. “The cerebral, atmospheric sound on this album remains enormously compelling from almost the first moment.” – All Music Guide

But if you are a fan of progressive, thoughtful, brilliantly executed and flawlessly produced music, you will do no better than Porcupine Tree. For the first time ever long suffering Australian fans will finally get their chance to witness their brilliance in intimate theatre surrounds.