Portishead

Well, that was pleasant.

Well, they're still touring together which I hope means they're recording some new songs and not only doing it to get some tour money before fading off again.

Free mixtape released today to celebrate the I'll Be Your Mirror London fest http://illbeyourmirror.com/mixtape/

Oh whoa, that is awesome that DD/MM/YYYY are playing!

http://www.portishead.co.uk/

Oops. Meant to show new North American tour announcement.

is there a new album coming? so weird. i'll go since I missed the tour for third and haven't seen them in....11 years? More?

i want to go to there.

So who got tickets? I'm set for the LA show...

Going to the Montreal show.

got berkeley tix

first night in toronto. should be an good thanksgiving.

Interview:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/17/portishead-mirror-festival-interview

bump because ATP/IBYM just happened and beth gibbons supposedly crowdsurfed and they're touring and they were just on fallon

yes, beth indeed crowdsurfed.

wtf

I can believe it!

They were never a band that I paid much attention to but they were tremendous at ATP, the live show is where it's at.

I just cued up all of the Portishead albums in Spotify and am having a deliciously mellow morning

I'd forgotten how beautiful "It Can Be Sweet" is.

I'd also forgotten how much Portishead points in the direction Third ended up, what with tracks like "Cowboy", "All Mine" and "Half Day Closing"

ticket for sunday show still hasn't arrived. ordered it in july, wtf

Going to see them tonight! Can't wait!

Show was AMAZING. Last album sounds great live as do the old classics. So glad they did "Over"! The visuals/lighting are simple but beautiful and Beth Gibbons is still a godess.

I saw them at I'll Be Your Mirror in July and they just blew me away. They blew all the other acts off the stage as well, especially on the first night (of two). Beth's voice is something else, and she was great; warm and funny, coming down off the stage at the end to run along the front row giving high-fives. I had hopeful/high expectations going in, and they exceeded them. Yeah, loved it /gushgush.

I'm going to see them next saturday, problem is it's going to be a festival (corona fest) and they always manage to have technical difficulties and blown speakers on this sort of things.

That said the rest of the lineup is great too: strokes, rapture, editors, coheed and cambria, santigold, moby, mogwai, OMD, these new puritans, no age, javiera mena, the antlers....

Wow should be great!

saw then last night. astonishing.

Goddamn. Hey Portishead, come to England!

uh they played about 2-3 months ago

I know that, I was just being silly. But yeah, it would be nice if they just played some regular dates tbh.

The show last night in LA was ridiculously great. Each of the three times I've seen them over the years has been remarkable in different ways.

I'm seeing them Sunday night. Can't wait. Saw them in 97 in New Orleans and still rate it as one of the best shows ever. Beth sounds as good live as she does on the records.

coworker of mine has two tickets for sale for Friday's show in SF if anyone's interested

fuck, only found out they were coming to my city once tix were all sold out--haven't seen them since just after 2nd ablbum came out

Portishead have announced that they will play a headline show at Cardiff University this Thursday 16 July which will serve as a warm up show to their headline slot at Latitude Festival on Saturday 18 July.

http://www.portishead.co.uk/2015/10/08/portishead-news/

I can't imagine this. And I'm quite good at imagining this.

Portishead News

We have contributed a track to the new Ben Wheatley film High Rise which is the Empire Gala at London Film Festival on Friday 9th October at the Odeon Leicester Square.

The track is a cover version of Abba’s SOS.

I can imagine it, it's really easy to turn bleak, Beth wailing the chorus over the top, electronic morse code running throughout, kind of a Machine Gun/We Carry On vibe.

yup i can totally see her style nailing the verses

Here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjnoX_EyN0

...and it's gone :/

I don't know what I was on about, above: I can so imagine this.

Here:

http://www.ponapisach.pl/2016/04/portishead-sos-abba-cover.html

Nice but sounds pretty much exactly like anyone would have imagined

it did and at this point their dourness is almost comic.

Works in the film!

Sounds like The Chromatics with Beth Gibbons... maybe (?)

It's nothing groundbreaking but I like it because I like this sort of thing.

After what Lorde did to Tears for Fears, any slow cover that's not as bad as that is a win.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/04/portisheads-first-new-recording-in-six-years-is-a-cover-of-abbas-sos-listen/ it's there, for people who are looking for it

http://hypem.com/search/portishead%20sos/1/