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====''The Incident''==== [[File:Porcupine Tree (2967150113).jpg|thumb|Porcupine Tree in Madrid, 2008; [[Richard Barbieri]] (left), [[Steven Wilson]], [[Gavin Harrison]] (on drums) and [[Colin Edwin]].]] The band played a short European tour in October 2008 to shoot their second live-concert film, ''[[Anesthetize (concert film)|Anesthetize]]'', preceded by three concerts in Australia in April.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.setlist.fm/stats/concert-map/porcupine-tree-63d6b2fb.html?year=2008|title= Porcupine Tree β Tour Statistics|website= setlist.fm|date= 9 August 2019}}</ref> The filming took place on 15 and 16 October in the Netherlands at the 013 [[Tilburg]] venue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.porcupinetree.com/news.cfm#1568|title=Porcupine Tree β News|date=5 June 2008|access-date=23 June 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604161429/http://www.porcupinetree.com/news.cfm#1568|archive-date=4 June 2008}}</ref> During one of these shows, Wilson mentioned that Porcupine Tree had started work on material for their next album, with an eye toward a release in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theseaweedfarm.com/2008/10/20/new-porcupine-tree-album-in-2009/|title=New Porcupine Tree Album in 2009|date=20 October 2008|access-date=22 November 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090811064437/http://theseaweedfarm.com/2008/10/20/new-porcupine-tree-album-in-2009/|archive-date=11 August 2009}}</ref> The live-concert film on DVD and [[Blu-ray]] was released on 20 May 2010. The band started recording their tenth studio album, ''[[The Incident (album)|The Incident]]'', in February 2009. This was confirmed by the band, stating, "Writing for the next PT studio record is well underway, with the band recently spending two weeks scheduled in the English countryside working on new tracks. Recording of these pieces and a new 35-minute SW song cycle were due to start in February..."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.porcupinetree.com/news.cfm#1597|title= Porcupine Tree β News|date= 16 December 2008|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080604161429/http://www.porcupinetree.com/news.cfm#1597|archive-date= 4 June 2008|df= dmy-all}}</ref> Months later, Wilson commented the 35-minute song kept evolving and now it has become a 55-minute song, occupying the entire disc. On 12 June 2009, details were revealed on the Porcupine Tree website, "the record is set to be released via Roadrunner Records worldwide on 21 September, as a double CD. The centrepiece is the title track, which takes up the whole of the first disc. The 55-minute work is described as a slightly surreal song cycle about beginnings and endings and the sense that 'after this, things will never be the same again.' The self-produced album is completed by four standalone compositions that developed out of band writing sessions last December β Flicker, Bonnie The Cat, Black Dahlia, and Remember Me Lover feature on a separate EP-length disc to stress their independence from the song cycle."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.porcupinetree.com/news.cfm#1669|title=The Incident|publisher=Porcupine Tree|date=12 June 2009|access-date=15 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604161429/http://www.porcupinetree.com/news.cfm#1669|archive-date=4 June 2008}}</ref> The album was the band's biggest commercial success to date, reaching number 23 in the UK album charts and also reaching the US'' Billboard ''Top 25. The band also released another live album, ''[[Atlanta (Porcupine Tree album)|Atlanta]]'', in June 2010. The performance was actually recorded during the tour of ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' at the Roxy theatre, Atlanta, on 29 October 2007. It was released via online distribution only, with all the sale proceeds donated to [[Mick Karn]] for his treatment against cancer.<ref>[http://www.mickkarn.net/ MICK KARN APPEAL] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229170038/http://mickkarn.net/ |date=29 December 2010 }}, β 4 June 2010. mickkarn.net</ref>
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