Grace for Drowning is the second album released under Wilson’s own name, and builds on the artistic inroads he forged with 2009’s exceptionally well-received Insurgentes. A double album (‘two 40-45 minute albums in the same package’) Wilson has described it as “my biggest project to date”.

Grace for Drowning, looks set to be equally well-received. Terrorizer have described it as ‘a dense yet extremely coherent album, Grace For Drowning succeeds brilliantly… Prog album of the year, no less.’ (5/5), Classic Rock have proclaimed ‘Grace For Drowning is an album that can’t really be described but it urgently calls to be heard’ while Record Collector stated: ‘there is an overwhelming sense of awe, a majestic soundscape created by an innovative, forward-looking musician immersed in the history of music… its epic vision will always reward revisits.’

Grace for Drowning, is available on CD, vinyl, and download along with a Blu-ray edition of the album. The Blu-ray disc contains the album in 5.1 surround sound with accompanying video content. The video content, created by long-term collaborator Lasse Hoile, as well as photo galleries, hand written notes and lyrics. Watch the trailer for the Blu-ray here.

Order your copy here

For the most avid collectors there is also a deluxe edition of the album. Limited to 5000 copies worldwide, the deluxe edition features 3 CDs, the Blu-ray Disc and a 120-page book. In addition to the album on 2CDs, the third CD features out-takes and demo material. All 4 discs will be packaged in a hard back book which features 120 pages of artwork and notes.

Check out the Grace for Drowning mini-site for order links for all editions of the album including the digital edition which features two bonus tracks. Digital links are: UK itunes / US itunes / German itunes

An 8 minute edit of Raider II, the 23 minute epic that is part of the album, is now streaming on the mini-site and the Kscope soundcloud profile. A new video of Wilson in the studio recording the track has also been added to the site.

The mini-site also features Lasse’s videos for Remainder The Black Dog, Index and Track One along with a free download, tour dates, album info and artwork.
www.gracefordrowning.com

Order your copy of Grace for Drowning here

Falling Deeper, the new release from Anathema was released last week. The album, recorded with a full 26 piece string section, features brand new arrangements of songs from the band’s earliest days as pioneers of heavy music. Classic Rock Prog have described the album as, ‘a more than worthy addition to Anathema’s fine body of work.’

The album entered the UK indie chart at #30 and #8 in the Alternative chart in Holland.

A fresh musical and lyrical approach has transformed songs such as Crestfallen, Kingdom, Sunset of Age and Everwake, which features the incredible voice of Anneke van Giersbergen.

The record has been produced by Daniel Cavanagh and was recorded and mixed by Andrea Wright at the legendary Parr St Studios, Liverpool (where the likes of Elbow, Coldplay and Echo and the Bunnymen have also recorded albums). The orchestral arrangements are from Dave Stewart who worked so successfully with Anathema on We’re Here Because We’re Here.

An extensive video interview with Danny Cavanagh where he discusses the album, the songs on it and plays excerpts on the piano is now on the Falling Deeper mini-site.

Anathema are playing at the A Night at the Union Chapel, a special Kscope evening that takes place on Friday September 30th (full details here)

TRACKLIST
Crestfallen 
Sleep In Sanity
Kingdom
They Die
Everwake
J’ai Fait Une Promesse
Alone
We The Gods
Sunset of Age

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Anathema’s Falling Deeper mini-site
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The series of re-mastered reissues from The Pineapple Thief’s back catalogue continues in October with a new 2CD edition of Variations On A Dream.

Variations On A Dream was the band’s third studio album and was originally released in 2004 on the Cyclops label. Bruce has re-mixed and re-mastered the album for this Kscope edition. It is also presented in the same way as the originally limited double album release with the 8 Days album (limited to 1000 copies and never released separately) on CD2.

Variations On A Dream is now available to pre-order from the Kscope store. It follows the recent reissue of the band’s 2005 album, 10 Stories Down. A video of Bruce and Steve from TPT discussing 10 Stories Down is also now online.

Steve and Bruce were also filmed at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios while the band recorded a cover of Money by Pink Floyd for a recent Mojo covermount CD, watch the video below.

Bruce will be performing a solo set at A Night in the Union Chapel, a special Kscope evening that takes place on Friday September 30th full details here).

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Kscope is pleased to announce Falling Deeper, the stunning new album from Anathema. Falling Deeper continues where the acclaimed 2008 album Hindsight left off. The album features brand new arrangements of songs with full 26 piece string section and haunting melodies from the band’s earliest days as pioneers of heavy music.

This is an album which will excite old and new Anathema fans equally. A fresh musical and lyrical approach has transformed songs such as Crestfallen, Kingdom, Sunset of Age and Everwake, which features the incredible voice of Anneke van Giersbergen.

The record has been produced by Daniel Cavanagh and was recorded and mixed by Andrea Wright at the legendary Parr St Studios, Liverpool (where the likes of Elbow, Coldplay and Echo and the Bunnymen have also recorded albums). The orchestral arrangements are from Dave Stewart who worked so successfully with Anathema on We’re Here Because We’re Here.

Released in 2010, We’re Here Because We’re Here was awarded Classic Rock’s Prog ‘Album of the Year’ in 2010 as well as a host of other accolades.

Tracklist
Crestfallen / Sleep in Sanity 7.21
Kingdom 4.23
They Die 2.10
Everwake 3.06
J’ai Fait une Promesse 4.22
Alone 7.15
We The Gods 3.01
Sunset of Age 7.39

Falling Deeper will be packaged in a deluxe digibook, click here to pre-order
click here to pre-order the vinyl edition, due for release a week before the CD.

For more info, audio samples, a FREE track from the album, downloads and more, go to: www.kscopemusic.com/anathema

Anathema are to release a new single, Dreaming Light, on Kscope on July 4th. The single will be available digitally along with Engineers’ new remix of the track Universal and the video for Dreaming Light by the award winning director, Christopher Kenworthy.

Watch the video here:

Dreaming Light is the second single to be lifted from last year’s album, We’re Here Because We’re Here. Awarded Classic Rock’s Prog Album of the Year as well as a host of other accolades, the album was the band’s first collection of new material band since the 2003 album, A Natural Disaster. A multi-coloured, multi-layered work of unbridled emotion, passion, and intensity, the new album was embraced by their legions of fans and the worldwide press. We’re Here Because We’re Here was mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), who described it as “definitely among the best albums I’ve ever had the pleasure to work on.”

Danny and Vincent from the band have just completed a tour of the USA & Canada with Steven Wilson’s Blackfield performing special acoustic Anathema sets and the full band will be performing at a host of festivals this summer. For full live dates, visit Anathema’s site

www.kscopemusic.com/anathema

To An Evergreen, the new EP from Engineers is now available to download from all key download stores (links below).

The lead track is an edit of one of the highlights of the band’s third album In Praise of More, which was released to great acclaim late last year. The EP also features a number of album tracks reworked by the likes of Portland electronica boffin Helios, German techno legend Beroshima and Engineers’ Kscope labelmates North Atlantic Oscillation. The seven tracks are completed by a cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Hey You’.

The full tracklisting is:
To An Evergreen (Edit)
What It’s Worth (Helios Remix)
Twenty Paces (Beroshima Remix)
In Praise Of More (Elika Remix)
Subtober (North Atlantic Oscillation remix)
Twenty Paces (A Shoreline Dream Remix)
Hey You

Download from these stores: iTunes Spotify Amazon 7Digital HMV Tesco Play.com Napster Nokia Ovi Store

Fan and filmmaker Robbie Stevens has also been inspired to create a new video to accompany the lead track which is now streaming here and on the Engineers mini-site.

For information, audio samples, downloads and more, go to www.kscopemusic.com/engineers

Anathema are to release a new single, Dreaming Light, on Kscope on June 20th. The single will be available digitally along with Engineers new remix of the track Universal and the video by award winning director, Christopher Kenworthy.

Dreaming Light is the second single to be lifted from last year’s album, We’re Here Because We’re Here. Awarded Classic Rock’s ‘Prog Album of the Year’ in 2010 as well as a host of other accolades, the album was the band’s first collection of new material band since the 2003 album, A Natural Disaster.

A multi-coloured, multi-layered work of unbridled emotion, passion, and intensity, the new album was embraced by their legions of fans and the worldwide press. We’re Here Because We’re Here was mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), who described it as “definitely among the best albums I’ve ever had the pleasure to work on.”

Danny and Vincent from the band have just returned from the USA & Canada with Steven Wilson’s Blackfield where they were performing special acoustic Anathema sets and receiving rave reviews. This summer the full band is also playing some club shows and appearing as Special Guests to Dream Theater in Europe and headlining with Anneke Van Giersbergen in Latin America:
4th July at Ippodromo Capanelle, Rome, Italy (Special Guests to Dream Theater)
5th July at Villafranca Castle, Verona, Italy (Special Guests to Dream Theater)
6th July at Komplex 457, Zurich, Switzerland (Special Guests to Dream Theater)
7th July at Colossal, Aschaffenburg, Germany (headline Anathema show)
8th July at Atak, Enschede, The Netherlands (headline Anathema show)
10th July at P60, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (headline Anathema show)
26th July at Circo Volador, DF, Mexico (with Anneke Van Giersbergen)
28th July at Teatro Colegiales, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Anneke Van Giersbergen)
31st July at Teatro Caupolican, Santiago, Chile (with Anneke Van Giersbergen)

Anathema will also be performing at a host of festivals this summer including Wave Gotik (Germany) June 10th, Hellfest (France) June 19th, Night of the Prog Festival (Germany) July 9th, High Voltage Festival (London) July 23rd, Vagos Open Air (Portugal) August 5th and Brutal Assault (Czech Rep) August 13th.

To buy tickets for all shows please visit anathema.ws/​tour

For more info, downloads and audio samples from We’re Here Because We’re Here, visit the mini-site at: kscopemusic.com/​anathema
For more info, downloads and audio samples from Engineers, visit the mini-site at: kscopemusic.com/​engineers

Buy Anathema and Engineers albums from: the Kscope store​

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The vinyl edition of Welcome To My DNA, the new album by Blackfield is now available to pre-order from the Kscope store. Each copy ordered from Kscope will come with a download card which features a unique code to download a digital version of the album. The vinyl edition of the album is pressed on heavyweight (180gm) vinyl in a gatefold sleeve and will be limited to 2000 numbered copies.

The Welcome To My DNA mini-site is also now online. The mini-site features album info, downloads and more along with the chance to download a free MP3 of the album’s opening track Glass House when signing up to the mailing list.

A video of Steven and Aviv in the studio recording the album and discussing the concepts behind it is now on the mini-site and the Kscope iPhone app has also been updated to include music from the album, plus Blackfield news, artwork and pictures.

Pre-order the CD digibook here
Pre-order the vinyl album here

The duo will also be touring to support the release of the album with dates in UK, Holland, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, France, USA and Canada (full tour dates are on the mini-site).

It has just been announced that The Pineapple Thief will be supporting Blackfield on the UK dates of this tour. Support acts for the other dates will be announced shortly. The Pineapple Thief are confirmed to play:
6th April Leamington Assembly
7th April Manchester Academy 2
8th April London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
10th April Amsterdam Paradiso

Click here to visit Blackfield’s mini-site
or go to Blackfield’s website for ticket links

Click below to watch the new promo for The Pineapple Thief’s Someone Here is Missing, by Neil Whitman, or click here to watch the video on Vimeo or YouTube.

At the start of the summer Someone Here is Missing, the new album from The Pineapple Thief was released on Kscope. Following several successful festival appearances over the past few months, the band are now about to embark on a European tour and release Show A Little Love, a new EP. The EP is now available to order from the Kscope store and features 4 brand new tracks (part of a sixteen minute piece) along with a single edit of the lead track and alternate versions of another three tracks from Someone Here is Missing (acoustic versions of two tracks plus a rousing remix of Dead In The Water).

The new video for Show A Little Love is now on the band’s mini-site and below.

OCTOBER TOUR DATES:

20 – Colos-saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany
21 – Substage, Karlsruhe, Germany
22 – Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany
23 – De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
24 – De Pul, Uden , The Netherlands
25 – Logo, Hamburg, Germany
26 – C-Club, Berlin, Germany
28 – Spirit of 66, Verviers, Belgium

Click here to buy tickets from The Pineapple Thief’s website

Tracklist:
1. Show A Little Love (single edit)
2. To Live And Die To The Familiar Sound Of…
- I Can Only See the Lights
- A Million Miles off Course
- Counting the Cost
- To Live and Die to…
3. Wake Up The Dead (acoustic)
4. Someone Here is Missing (acoustic)
5. Dead In The Water (Worldengine remix)

For more information, downloads and audio samples from Someone Here is Missing, visit the mini-site at: www.kscopemusic.com/thepineapplethief

The new album – 2CD special edition
 
Three Fact Fader, Engineers’ second album was released last year on Kscope to widespread critical acclaim. The band now return with In Praise of More, their new album and their first with their new line-up.Mark Peters has moved to guitar and has been replaced by Daniel Land on bass and Matthew Linley has joined on drums. In addition to this respected solo artist Ulrich Schnauss, who had previously played keyboards live with the band has joined as full time member.
 
Although the majority of the songs on In Praise of More were recorded by Mark, with the assistance of Dave Potter, Ulrich was on hand to offer advice and point out ways to make what were essentially home recordings sound as stately and elegant as they do. Taking in everything from the synth-heavy krautpop of To An Evergreen to the autumnal acoustic folk of There Will Be Time and the wintery piano instrumental Nach Hause, the album strips back the layers of sound that characterised the band’s previous releases, but remains just as powerful. One of the highlights, the beautifully understated Twenty Paces, which blends The Blue Nile with almost jazz-like rhythms, is the first track that Mark and Ulrich co-produced.
 
The 2CD set also features an instrumental version of the album and is available from the Kscope store now.
 
Here is the promo for ‘In Praise of More’, the first single taken from the new album, filmed and edited by Peter Breen in 2 days!
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The In Praise of More mini-site is now online at www.kscopemusic.com/engineers.
The mini-site features album info, downloads and more along with the chance to download a free MP3 of the title track.

Critical acclaim for In Praise of More:

This is an album damp with tears, slightly shaken by angst and should be given to most UK bands around at the moment to use as an example in making an album that is a joy to behold.

8/10

Words by Chris Todd

for the full review, read this web page

New documentary starring Porcupine Tree front-man Steven Wilson
Special screenings with Q&A in London (2nd Sept) and New York (21st Sept). Available as 2 DVD set from 27th September – pre-order now.

Insurgentes, Lasse Hoile’s film about Steven Wilson, is released on DVD by Kscope on 27th September and is now available to pre-order from the Kscope store. The first 2000 come with an exclusive free gift if you order it online via Kscope/Burning Shed.
Click here to pre-order the DVD set

Prior to the DVD release there will be a special screenings of the film in the Prince Charles Cinema at London’s Leicester Square on September 2nd and at the IFC Center in New York on September 21st. Steven will be at both screenings and will be available to answer questions from the audience about the film during a Q&A session which will follow the film. He will be joined by Lasse at the New York screening.

A limited number of tickets for these special evenings are available to purchase from www.princecharlescinema.com (London) and Burning Shed (New York). Tickets for London cost £10 (+75p booking fee) and tickets for New York cost $15.

The 2 disc set comes packaged in a digibook with a 65 page booklet featuring photography by Lasse and Carl Glover, Steven’s long-time art collaborator, in a hard slip case. The second disc features a host of extras including a 31 minute film of Bass Communion and Pig live in Mexico City, the promo video for Harmony Korine, two trailers, 6 audio out-takes from the album recording sessions and more. The film is subtitled in Spanish, French, German, and English and the sound mixed is in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. 

Insurgentes is a musical road movie that follows the making of the solo record of the same name, and is a portrait of an increasingly rare artist who works with music and media out of love and not for fame and fortune, persisting in making art on his own terms in a world where ‘throw-away’ mentality is increasingly becoming the norm.

Hoile has described the project as ‘starting out as a small side project to Steven Wilson’s solo album’ yet ‘as the project developed and more and more people got involved, we realised that we had the potential to create a great documentary that could stand on its own feet.’

Insurgentes explores music and the album as art form, and applying the same aesthetic vision through the writing, performance, production, artwork, lyrics, videos and beyond. The film looks into the issues of creating, packaging and marketing music in an era when iPods, mp3′s and download culture are changing and eroding perceptions of exactly what an album is supposed to sound and look like.

“My fear is that the current generation of kids who’re being born into this information revolution, growing up with the Internet, cell phones, iPods, this download culture, ‘American Idol,’ reality TV, prescription drugs, PlayStations — all of these things kind of distract people from what’s important about life, which is to develop a sense of curiosity about what’s out there.”
(Steven Wilson, MTV News)

It’s this curiosity that takes the artist around the world to find inspiration to create and record his music.

Through travels to different cultures and continents we meet with other personalities in the industry, including Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth, the Israeli superstar Aviv Geffen and the legendary producer Trevor Horn, and hear different opinions on the current and future state of music. The result, as Lasse remarks, is ‘both a portrait of Steven as an artist but also a look at today’s download culture and the effects it has on the artists trying to create and share what is truly in their hearts and minds.’

Insurgentes also follows Steven back to his roots and upbringing and what led to him becoming a musician, from humble beginnings in the suburbs of London to touring the world as a successful artist, working with many other established artists, and creating a lasting legacy of recorded work.

www.insurgentesfilm.com

Anesthetize is a 2 disc set (DVD + Blu-Ray) which captures the power of band’s live show. Recorded in high definition on multi-cameras over two nights at 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland in October 2008, the concerts featured tracks from throughout the band’s career until that point. Anesthetize collects the highlights from the two shows and presents them on both DVD and on Blu-Ray. The last remaining copies of the limited digi-book edition of the DVD and Blu-Ray set are now available to order from the Kscope store. Once this edition sells out, a super jewel case edition of the set will be available.

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NEW SINGLE…The new single Nothing At Best, the first to be taken from the new album Someone Here Is Missing, will be available to download from itunes from May 17th. The b-side to the single Open Waters is an exclusive digital only track written during the album sessions and only recently completed for the Nothing at Best single.

NEW VIDEO…The new video for Nothing At Best directed by Arnfinn Moseng & Negar Bagheri is now premiering on the album mini-site. Combining 2D animation techniques with live action special effects, Arnfinn and Negar have created a beautiful film noir-esque video which captures the mood of Nothing at Best perfectly.

ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE ALBUM…

Someone Here is Missing is available now to pre-order from the Kscope store on CD & Limited Edition Vinyl. Limited to 2000 numbered units, the vinyl edition of the album come on 180gms black vinyl in a heavyweight gatefold sleeve with an art print on 250gms Tintoretto Gesso Paper and is supplied in a PVC wallet. The vinyl edition also comes with a special ‘drop card’ with a link to a digital download of the album.

The first 250 orders will also come with a pad of exclusive Someone Here is Missing post-it notes which echo the album’s artwork.Both editions are also available as part of album + t-shirt bundles (long or short sleeve).

“The Pineapple Thief are primed to become an overnight success” CLASSIC ROCK PROG

For more information, audio samples, videos, downloads and more, go to the mini-site at www.kscopemusic.com/thepineapplethief

North Atlantic Oscillation return in June with Ceiling Poem, the second single to be taken from the debut album, Grappling Hooks. The track was described as ‘a gentle dreambeat that explodes into a technicolour psych-out’ by Classic Rock and by The Quietus as ‘inverted, unexpectedly Byrds-inflected folktronica’.

Kscope commissioned Stephen Ong, a young animator from Norwich to create an animated promo for the single, which you can see above.

Grappling Hooks, the debut album, was released earlier this year. The record immediately received rave reviews across the board, including being named Zane Lowe’s record of the week, and their first UK headline tour confirmed their status as one of the most exciting new bands to emerge in 2010.

“Super exciting new Rock n Roll for a new decade” Zane Lowe, BBC Radio One

“something a bit special” Classic Rock Prog

“Intriguing oddness from Scotland” Uncut



They will also be embarking on a short UK tour in May ahead of festival appearances this summer.
Playing live at the following dates:

May 14th – Great Escape, BRIGHTON (Levi’s Ones To Watch)

May 15th – BE @ Proud Galleries, LONDON

May 16th – Southampton Joiners, SOUTHAMPTON

May 17th – Oxford Jericho, OXFORD

May 18th – Barfly, CARDIFF

May 19th – BBC Introducing @ Oakford Social, READING

May 20th – Liverpool Sound City, LIVERPOOL

May 21st – Stag & Dagger, LONDON

May 22nd – Stag & Dagger, GLASGOW

July 14th – Pistoia Festival (supporting Porcupine Tree), ITALY

July 30th – Y Not Festival, Matlock, DERBYSHIRE

August 7th – Standon Calling, HERTS

September 10th – Bestival, ISLE OF WIGHT

For more information, audio samples, videos, downloads and more, go to the mini-site at www.kscopemusic.com/northatlanticoscillation

Hotly tipped trio North Atlantic Oscillation have been announced as the support for UK dates of Porcupine Tree’s current European tour.

The band take over from Kscope label mates, Engineers who had to pull out of the dates due to unforeseen personal circumstances. The dates kicked off last night in Wolverhampton before gigs in Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow.

Dec 08 2009 NEWCASTLE, Academy
Dec 10 2009 MANCHESTER, Academy
Dec 11 2009 GLASGOW, ABC

NAO’s debut release, the EP Call Signs, has just been released and has been attracting rave reviews with Art Rocker claiming ‘NAO may well be your new favourite band’ and Drowned In Sound simply declaring ‘they really are quite alarmingly good’ while naming the track Cell Count as their single of the week. The Metro also recently stated that their ‘bright, friendly electronics and lush Brian Wilson harmonies suggest Scotland may have the beginnings of its own Animal Collective.’

The Call Signs EP can be ordered from the Kscope store or downloaded from all major download stores including iTunes, Amazon and emusic. Grappling Hooks, the band’s debut album, will be available from March 2010.

Check out the video below for Cell Count below, filmed and edited by Ben (from the band) and Michael Sherrington of Forest of Black.

www.kscopemusic.com/northatlanticoscillation
www.naoband.com

A promo for Engineers’ new single What Pushed Us Together is also now on the Kscope Vimeo channel, and can be seen below. The single can be downloaded from iTunes now, and will be available at most other digital outlets soon. The single also features the A Ricardo Tobar Mix.

www.kscopemusic.com/engineers

Click here to order your copy of Mixtaped DVD from the Kscope store

Mixtaped, the 2 disc DVD set from No-Man, is now available from the Kscope store. Comprising the band’s sell-out performance at London’s Bush Hall in 2008, a comprehensive career-spanning documentary, and numerous extras (including newly commissioned and archive video footage), Mixtaped provides a fascinating insight into one of British music’s most unusual cult heroes.

Formed in 1987 by Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson, No-Man has produced a unique body of work that has developed from the band’s proto Trip-Hop / Ambient origins into something beyond easy categorisation.

The documentary, Returning, reveals for the first time the band’s full history from their roots in a teenager’s bedroom to an unsuccessful career in mainstream Pop; from near obscurity to increasing cult success.

Here is a trailer for the 2DVD set:

Mixtaped Disc One:
* No-Man’s complete Bush Hall live performance with 5.1 and stereo options (90 mins).
* Live photo gallery – Including photos from all three of No-Man’s first live concerts in 15 years, with an exclusive soundtrack of the song Housekeeping (recorded live in Dusseldorf).

Mixtaped Disc Two:
* Returning – A 90 minute career-spanning documentary including previously unseen footage, photos and images, and in-depth interviews with every member of No-Man past and present (including Tim Bowness, Steven Wilson, Ben Coleman and Chris Maitland). Directed by award winning journalist Richard Smith, Returning is the story of No-Man.
* Extras – Complete videos for several No-Man songs spanning 1990-2008.
* Rare live footage.
* No-Man ‘live timeline’.