I always like Morcheeba, who similarly got tossed in as imitators but I thought sounded totally different.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
The Roseland New York DVD, which you can get for a few quid, appears to come with all the films (To Kill A Dead Man etc) and a bunch of the first 2 album's videos.
https://www.discogs.com/Portishead-Roseland-New-York/release/178075
― piscesx, Friday, 23 August 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
I don't remember how I first heard about Dummy (or what song I heard first, etc.) -- but I was an early adopter, and was ob-sessed with it. I made a lot of mixtapes for friends that year, with Dummy on one side and Massive Attack on the other.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
I was gonna say, that Sneaker Pimps album rules.
"Spin Spin Sugar" rules (both the original and the Armand Van Helden speed garage mix)
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
i was huge into Dummy from the get-go. I bought it the same day along w/Definitely Maybe at a CD shop in Rockford IL.
― omar little, Friday, 23 August 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
WHINEY: People seem to like having sex to this record.
hope this was fact-checked
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 August 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/arts/music/portishead-dummy-anniversary.html
buhhh @ subs running an interview with Geoff Barrow, illustrating it with a photo of Barrow and Beth Gibbons, and captioning the photo only as showing Gibbons
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 23 August 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Here's another (better?) one.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/24/portishead-dummy-wasnt-a-chillout-album-25th-anniversary-geoff-barrow-adrian-utley-beth-gibbons?CMP=share_btn_tw
The Nils Frahm slagging is hilarious.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 August 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
Seems both have a pretty big chip on their shoulder.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 24 August 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
GB on Twitter sure is an old curmudgeon. Very off-putting.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 26 August 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
i do agree with them that billie eilish rocks and nils frahm sucks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 26 August 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Utter codswallop https://t.co/ERuHEQ1GkI— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) August 25, 2019
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
Codswallop is a new one to me.
Olivia Colman has covered Portishead's brooding classic Glory Box in aid of Children In Need.
― Mark G, Friday, 4 October 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
https://www.binaural.es/noticias/volveran-portishead-en-2020-con-un-nuevo-disco-bajo-el-brazo/
primavera sound's musical director claims he's heard they might have a new album next year. don't want to get my hopes up too much but...
― ufo, Thursday, 31 October 2019 03:19 (four years ago) link
yeah, I've been speaking to Geoff about this, off the record, and it's almost finished.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2019 04:26 (four years ago) link
Ohwwwww
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:50 (four years ago) link
Fuck yessssssss
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 October 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
that was a bad joke post btw.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Sshhh, let my self-delusion be.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Just got an out of nowhere email from their mailing list saying hey man I know you unsubscribed but MAYBE WE HAVE A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT COMING, so: credible
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
WRONG THREADS WHOOPS that was about the avalanches, i'm tired and also dumb
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
bumped into beth gibbons the other week, she cawed like a rook and spun her hat three times, i think the new album's a lock you guys
― imago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Did you wish her 'good morning Mrs Magpie'? Their latest may never see the light of the day otherwise, and it'll be all your fault.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
i uttered an old saxon oath while crossing my thumbs, we're all golden
― imago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I recall seeing them at Coachella and they mentioned on stage after the set that there wouldn't be nearly as long of a wait for their next one as there was for Third. Hmmmphf
― octobeard, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
tbf 'SOS' dropped in like 2015
― imago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
Oh that's right
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
SOS doesn't count. Covers don't count.
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Geoff Barrow's transhemispherical hip-hop group Quakers is vibrating back to life: a full second album featuring 31 rappers across 33 tracks is out in November, and they released a beat tape mixed by the Australian part of the group, Katalyst (as Supa K) a few weeks ago. That's on bandcamp and vinyl, or as a 50-minute collage video.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
Not the bump I was most hoping for here, but still cool news.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
20. Fa Real (feat. Jeru The Damaja)
YES
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Really liked Beak>'s last album, too
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/portishead-official/sos
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
It's not much to go by but if they're re-releasing old tracks via their official Soundcloud page maybe there's a chance?
I am desperate, yes.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
I do wish they'd released it via Bandcamp or another platform that allowed downloads :/
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Thursday, 8 July 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
Anyone read this? Geoff himself shared it so he must approve
https://www.kexp.org/read/2019/8/22/portisheads-geoff-barrow-and-adrian-utley-breakdown-dummy-25-years-later/
― piscesx, Thursday, 8 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Good article!
― Mark G, Friday, 9 July 2021 07:14 (two years ago) link
I didn't realise there was only a score release from High Rise, although most of the rest of the soundtrack is on (from) that Soul Jazz krautrock compilation.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 9 July 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLibmNWkvIQ
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 05:32 (two years ago) link
^^^"Portishead, playing Roads at a benefit concert for Ukraine at the O2 Academy in Bristol on May 2nd 2022."
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 05:34 (two years ago) link
Before you get too excited:
https://www.discogs.com/release/756508-Portishead-Mandalay-Pearl
I didn't know about this hoax album, didn't even know this sort of thing happened in this day and age..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_ssn=schoenwettermusik&store_cat=0&store_name=schoenwettermusik&_oac=1&_nkw=sunderland&_dmd=1&rt=nc
.. and this seller, who are selling lots of albums by the group "Sunderland"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:13 (two years ago) link
what do you mean, before you get too excited - is that 2022 video fake?
― StanM, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 11:03 (two years ago) link
Um, no.
Before you get excited about a new Portishead album in the link.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 11:12 (two years ago) link
Wow, that fake Portishead/Mandalay album was doing the rounds years back, no idea why it's still listed on Discogs as it's long debunked
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 12:00 (two years ago) link
It explains it in the notes, but still listed as it is an object that exists.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
Um, no.Before you get excited about a new Portishead album in the link.?? Roads is from Dummy.
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
full concerthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLX8LRILfj0
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
only a half hour show? were there more bands playing? it feels like such a tiny set after so many years inactive. Beth Gibbons sounds a bit out of breath in some segments (particularly on the higher notes for 'wandering star' and 'roads')
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 01:51 (two years ago) link