Tarquin's Seaweed Farm
Tarquin's Seaweed Farm, subtitled "Words from a Hessian Sack", is the first album to be released by Steven Wilson under the pseudonym Porcupine Tree. It was originally a compiled cassette of experimental music made by Steven Wilson for his joke band he formed with his friend Malcom Stocks. The cassette was only sent out to a few people, but was enough to give the band a bit of fame in the UK underground music scene of the time, being picked up by the underground magazine Freakbeat. It was later released under Delerium Records in 1991  in a limited edition of 300 copies. Tracks 1 to 7, and a re-recorded version of "Radioactive Toy", would be released on the band's first studio album, "On the Sunday of Life...". The song "Nun's Cleavage (Left)", however, was renamed "Third Eye Surfer", with songs "Clarinet Vignette" and "Nun's Cleavage (Right)" being indexed as one track called "On the Sunday of Life". The rest of the tracks, including the original version of "Radioactive Toy", would be released on compilation album "Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape". According to the liner notes of the 2000 vinyl reissue of "Yellow Hedgerow  Dreamscape". some of the songs on "Tarquin's Seaweed Farm" can be dated back to 1986. In 2004, the album and the other two Delerium cassettes ("Love, Death & Mussolini" and "The Nostalgia Factory") were privately remixed and remastered by Steven Wilson and rereleased in a special boxset called "Footprints: Cassette Music 1988–1992". 25 copies were made and distributed to friends and family of Wilson, who also kept a copy for himself and sent some to the rest of the band. Credits (fiction). Tripping Musicians Extraordinaire: