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Anybody know who's handling Portishead's publicity in the United States? I'm supposed to review "Alien" and so far it's been impossible to get a line on a promo copy; just dead ends.

Raymond Cummings, Monday, 24 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

You're probably best off contacting Go Beat Records in Great Britain to find out who's the PR person in the US.

I think you're a bit hasty at the moment, though.....

RUSS T, Monday, 24 February 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Who says the record is even finished?

JoB (JoB), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)


isn't it due out quite shortly? ( < 2 months away.)

i would think a major label would have promo shinola without final packaging available...

but, what do i know?
m.

msp, Monday, 24 February 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

MSN's online entertainment section has an entry for Portishead 'Album' (2002) in their music listings pages, the tracklisting runs thus:

1. Open Box
2. Love of Life
3. Broquette
4. Broken Wall
5. Beatless Day
6. Of Liberty for All and None
7. Alien
8. Signature
9. Minor Pain
10. Traveling Fast to There
11. Tomorrow's Death
12. Broquette [Multi Mix in F#- Slowdown]

i havent seen this information anywhere else so not sure how they got it or why its up there

stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

oop that should of course say 'Alien' and not 'Album' - the 2002 was NOT a typo tho!

stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

...saw Beth Gibbons here in Bristol on Sunday, debut gig of her Rustin Man tour.

Beautiful.

russ t, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I rediscovered the second P/Head album over the weekend, not having listened to it properly for years. Sounds almost like an unintended prequel to "100th Window" - more war music? Absolutely brilliant, though; I think at the moment I prefer it to "Dummy" (great though the latter is). Certainly can't wait for the newie, which needless to say I will be reviewing for Uncut.

Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Marcello -
do Uncut really review anything that's not hoary and rocky and under 40 years of age...?! I thought it was a staple diet of Neil Young, the Stones and Bob Dylan?

russ t, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

at present, not unless it's me doing the reviewing (or sometimes john mulvey and david stubbs).

Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...
Unbelievably, new Coral single "In the Morning" was produced by Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. Surely a new Portoshead album has been finished if they're able to waste time on these Scousers?

JoB (JoB), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Portushead would be fine, too. ;-)

JoB (JoB), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Pitahead.

Maybe they just felt bored.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

what ever came of that tsunami benefit show in bristol? did anyone read/hear anything about their set?

rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ergh, that new Coral song is a complete Cast knock-off, if Cast can even be referred to as imitees. Shame on Barrow!

$V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

It's like The Horrors but without the moaning dude.

CosMc (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 August 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

Portishead sign to Amnesty

Portishead are releasing a brand new track, - "Chase the tear" for Amnesty International.

It will be available as an exclusive download single from 7 digital http://www.7digital.com/porti sheadamnesty from December 10th with all earnings going towards Amnesty's human rights work and all rights given to the organisation indefinitely.

A video of Portishead performing ''Chase the Tear'' will also be available from 10 December at: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/portish ead and at http://www.portishead.co.uk

International human rights day (10 December) marks the anniversary of the United Nation's historic "Universal Declaration Of Human Rights" on 10 December 1948. The UDHR set out for the first time in a single document the fundamental rights to which everyone, everywhere is entitled - including the right to life, liberty, security, the freedoms of opinion, association and expression, and the right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.

For more information: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/udhr

Mark G, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

That track is ZOMG!

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

wow great song!

eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

it's like steppin' out...gone portishead!

102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

fuck yeah! and the video on vimeo is great too.

ianmaxwell, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

I love that they are riding hard for the shoegaze visual aesthetic

wtf?!? just randomly started crying! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

I haven't watched the whole video. I only needed to see about 30 seconds before I went and bought the mp3. I guess it's supposed to just end (like "Silence" did)?

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

the single crisp rising synth is so awesome

ianmaxwell, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

yeah that was pretty good, altho i'd say it'd be among the weaker tracks of third (which i now love)...the ending is nicely timed

haha dan otm, look they are miserable

and the synth really does remind me of steppin' out quite a lot

102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

sigue sigue sputnik more like

mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:51 (sixteen years ago)

that song is great!

Bee OK, Thursday, 10 December 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)

...

Mark G, Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:00 (sixteen years ago)

Top notch song. A new album can't come soon enough.

van smack, Friday, 11 December 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

This is great I thought I would have to wait until I was in my thirties before I heard more new Portishead.

adamj, Friday, 11 December 2009 05:21 (sixteen years ago)

It's like The Horrors but without the moaning dude.

Am liking the Beak> album much more than the Horrors tbh.

The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Friday, 11 December 2009 09:21 (sixteen years ago)

It's quite a stylistic shift for them - the arpeggiated synth bass is disco-ish; the whole thing is a kind of glum lo-fi "I Feel Love"...

superflyguy, Friday, 11 December 2009 10:46 (sixteen years ago)

This is pretty unexpected. New to me anyway - not sure if it's old in the US.

http://tinyurl.com/yar37lt

Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 11 December 2009 11:41 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks to you tweeting (or retweeting) that, I've been showing everyone! I think it was broadcast Tuesday night in the US.

Michael Jones, Friday, 11 December 2009 11:45 (sixteen years ago)

It makes the song sound utterly thrilling and bizarre. I like the idea of casual viewers being tempted to check it.

Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 11 December 2009 11:55 (sixteen years ago)

i like the way it sounds and looks amazing, but not actually weird or out of place - and the audience just cheers along normally. people's ideas of what will be acceptable or go down well w/mainstream audiences can be rather restrictive sometimes.

lex pretend, Friday, 11 December 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)

they used Apparat - Arcadia a few episodes back and generally surprise me a few times each season

abcfsk, Friday, 11 December 2009 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

Interesting - didn't know the context. It's obv in a different zone from Strictly Come Dancing.

Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 11 December 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

What about Beak>? Anyone heard them or have any thoughts? I liked, but was a bit disappointed by, the album after what I'd read ahead of time. I saw them live on Monday though and liked it a lot more.

krakow, Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

Ehh. I thought that album was kinda... bad, tbh. :I

Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

Chase the Tear reminds me in parts of NIN, oddly.

Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

'chase the tear' is awesome. there's no chance it was recorded live, right? i'm inclined to say no, but the one-take video looks pretty convincing (even though there are no mics on the drums).

rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:10 (sixteen years ago)

ten months pass...

This was in my gmail account:

Portishead announcement

Hello. Check the news page at http://www.portishead.co.uk/news.php on Wednesday 24th November for an announcement about 2011.

Thanks

Mark G, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:01 (fifteen years ago)

Nothing there as yet, beyond May's "Chase the Tear"

Mark G, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:01 (fifteen years ago)

Reckon they'll have got that fourth album sorted pretty quickly...

Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:24 (fifteen years ago)

This is potentially exciting.

A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:25 (fifteen years ago)

Either that or its a 16th-anniversary box set of Dummy with three discs of remixes and a remastered version of the original album.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:27 (fifteen years ago)

*crosses fingers*

just sayin, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://twitter.com/Portisheadinfo

^ new portishead album, news at six

Albert mangles dwarf (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:45 (fifteen years ago)

6 pm where?

Avatar: The Last SBanner (kkvgz), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)

Portishead

Albert mangles dwarf (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)

lol. makes sense.

Avatar: The Last SBanner (kkvgz), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:49 (fifteen years ago)

Someone on Twitter just said that Portishead will be curating an ATP event at Alexandra Palace and the line-up will be announced at 6pm.

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 13:26 (fifteen years ago)

on sale friday: http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/I-LL-BE-YOUR-MIRROR-CURATED-BY-PORTISHEAD-ATP

joe, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 13:28 (fifteen years ago)

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

^ oh well, there you go

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

That is much less momentous news than I had hoped for when the thread got bumped : (

Avatar: The Last SBanner (kkvgz), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:15 (fifteen years ago)

OTM portishead x 2 + swans + mf doom + company flow is pretty sweet but I'm skint so fuck 'em

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

In tribute, I am going to Portishead for dinner tonight.

ia! ia! Cartman fthagn! (aldo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:46 (fifteen years ago)

Well, that was pleasant.

ia! ia! Cartman fthagn! (aldo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Moka, Thursday, 25 November 2010 08:13 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

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

I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 09:08 (fourteen years ago)

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

brie on crüt (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

SongOfSam, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

Oops. Meant to show new North American tour announcement.

SongOfSam, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

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?

akm, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

i want to go to there.

LaMonte, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 02:47 (fourteen years ago)

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

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 July 2011 17:18 (fourteen years ago)

Going to the Montreal show.

sofatruck, Saturday, 16 July 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

got berkeley tix

akm, Sunday, 17 July 2011 02:00 (fourteen years ago)

first night in toronto. should be an good thanksgiving.

LaMonte, Sunday, 17 July 2011 03:17 (fourteen years ago)

Interview:

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

I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Sunday, 17 July 2011 10:36 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

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

LaMonte, Friday, 7 October 2011 01:54 (fourteen years ago)

yes, beth indeed crowdsurfed.

beta blog, Friday, 7 October 2011 05:10 (fourteen years ago)

wtf

akm, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:16 (fourteen years ago)

I can believe it!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:18 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

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.

the tax avocado (DJP), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:37 (fourteen years ago)

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"

the tax avocado (DJP), Friday, 7 October 2011 17:09 (fourteen years ago)

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

LaMonte, Friday, 7 October 2011 19:05 (fourteen years ago)

Going to see them tonight! Can't wait!

LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 7 October 2011 19:29 (fourteen years ago)

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.

LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

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.

DavidM, Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

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....

Moka, Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:12 (fourteen years ago)

Wow should be great!

LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

saw then last night. astonishing.

LaMonte, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:04 (fourteen years ago)

Goddamn. Hey Portishead, come to England!

Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Monday, 10 October 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

uh they played about 2-3 months ago

Jamie_ATP, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:53 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 22:26 (fourteen years ago)

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.

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 October 2011 23:17 (fourteen years ago)

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

not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Thursday, 20 October 2011 00:38 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

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.

Mark G, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 15:49 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

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

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

Mark G, Friday, 9 October 2015 09:50 (ten years ago)

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.

Mark G, Friday, 9 October 2015 09:51 (ten years ago)

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.

Matt DC, Monday, 12 October 2015 09:29 (ten years ago)

yup i can totally see her style nailing the verses

brimstead, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:59 (ten years ago)

six months pass...

Here it is

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

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 25 April 2016 05:10 (ten years ago)

...and it's gone :/

willem, Monday, 25 April 2016 06:49 (ten years ago)

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

Mark G, Monday, 25 April 2016 09:06 (ten years ago)

Here:

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

groovypanda, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:00 (ten years ago)

Nice but sounds pretty much exactly like anyone would have imagined

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 25 April 2016 15:00 (ten years ago)

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

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:00 (ten years ago)

Works in the film!

And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 25 April 2016 17:04 (ten years ago)

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

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

daavid, Monday, 25 April 2016 17:11 (ten years ago)

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

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:07 (ten years ago)

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

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 18:20 (ten years ago)

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

🐸 a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly i (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 April 2016 01:48 (ten years ago)

jesus, are they trying to drum up curiosity for the track by methodically requesting its removal its from every blog it appears on, so that their fans end up following a chain of dead links to their official site (and/or amazon/itunes)? I'm onto your tactics, Utley!

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:02 (ten years ago)

and I'm sure everyone in this thread is complicit in their marketing ploy, including myself

small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:06 (ten years ago)

afaik it will not be for sale anywhere

🐸 a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly i (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 April 2016 02:18 (ten years ago)

If you haven't heard it yet, just imagine what it might sound like if a comedy sketch show decided to clown Portishead doing an Abba cover, and you're pretty much there.

everything, Thursday, 28 April 2016 04:07 (ten years ago)

xp yeah, it's not getting a release:

https://twitter.com/recordedpicture/status/716701065262051333

The Portishead cover of Abba's SOS will stay exclusive to @HighRise_movie, at the band's wishes. It won't be released.

groovypanda, Thursday, 28 April 2016 07:03 (ten years ago)

I want to hear this!!!!!!!!

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 28 April 2016 12:33 (ten years ago)

Well, would Portishead reunite specifically to do this? Or did they just happen to be in a studio anyway?

Mark G, Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:13 (ten years ago)

well it probably only took them an hour to do this over email

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:35 (ten years ago)

A band I admired and loved covers a band I find bland and shallow. And additionaly the cover is boring and predictible. In my music world Portishead has just committed suicide. Now I ask myself the question if I have always mystified and overestimated them. I remember when I heard them first on MTV in 1994 and I was immediately enthralled. The song was Mysterons and it dawned on me soon that this was a new kind of music which could not be described by the then existing genre names. How could this be called? Emo-Goth-Folk? They were so unbelievably special and Beth Gibbons at the same time indifferent and intense and - from the inside - emotional way of singing hooked me immediately. And now they fucking cover SOS. One of the silliest and dullest songs out there. Let me just pretend that I have never heard it and that it will never be released.

it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:14 (ten years ago)

ok

HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:44 (ten years ago)

for the third fucking time, it won't be released

🐸 a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly i (James Morrison), Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:18 (ten years ago)

I can do a pretty good impression of it if anyone needs me.

Mr. Hathaway. (jed_), Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:20 (ten years ago)

I actually quite like it and it works really well in the context of the film.

groovypanda, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:32 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVe-9VWIcCo

this cover is tight. jeez y'all

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:09 (nine years ago)

If they keep that woozy spacey production style for their next album I'll be chuffed.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 16:24 (nine years ago)

Yes it's good, but who else had an urge to listen to the original immediately after it was over.

daavid, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:42 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

So this have had a bakers dozen looks like.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:52 (eight years ago)

great selections

Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:18 (eight years ago)

Roads should be #1

A Tribute To Monk & Canatella is my #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSUE8fFlwWY

& Where's Biscuit? and It Could Be Sweet?

Kat Slater Slag meme (jed_), Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:44 (eight years ago)

biscuit is awesome

my ten (don't really know the 3rd album well)

mysterons
strangers
numb
biscuit
cowboys
all mine
undenied
half day closing
mourning air
only you

brimstead, Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:58 (eight years ago)

theme from to kill a dead man is great too

Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 04:36 (eight years ago)

nine months pass...

Missed them on the third tour. Anyone see them? This band has such a sparse discography but I guess at least there’s that Beth gibbons solo record

Y'all (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:53 (seven years ago)

Hopefully you've caught everything Beak> has done, which is excellent and more or less carrying on from Third's Krautrocky starting point (but of course lacking Gibbons)?

Soundslike, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:37 (seven years ago)

Havent heard it but I know Adrian has been on goldfrapps records ??

Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:48 (seven years ago)

I saw them at the atp they curated which was just before third came out

U. K. Le Garage (wins), Saturday, 30 June 2018 15:56 (seven years ago)

I saw them live in 96 and I saw them live for the Third tour. They were fantastic both nights but I’d maybe give the win to the Third show. Every song overcharged with emotion. Delicately powerful.

brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:00 (seven years ago)

"It's a shame that there are only three records by Geoff Barrow's musical project. At least the singer formed another band and did one album, once, 16 years ago."

- you might enjoy checking out that Geoff Barrow has four albums, two live albums, and half a dozen EPs as BEAK>, an album and an EP producing and backing Anika, five albums of score with Ben Salisbury, and production work for eight or so other artists, plus session work.

"Nah. Imagine if the dude who did session work on three tracks on his first album, who has been a professional session musician for three decades, had done a few sessions for another band though!!!"

kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:24 (seven years ago)

When you can spot a sic post in the first 2 words

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 2 July 2018 07:27 (seven years ago)

Best concert I've ever seen was them on the Third tour at Brixton Academy. Incredibly memorable

mickcsmith (micarl), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:15 (seven years ago)

Did they play machine gun? ^^^

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:47 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

#Dummy25 22/08/1994 pic.twitter.com/lD0logm5bh

— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) August 21, 2019

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 23:12 (six years ago)

having my mind blown hearing this for the first time on KCRW and going straight to Tower Records the next day to pick it up. damn that was 25 years ago!

(•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 August 2019 13:33 (six years ago)

I wonder how I first heard it? Not the video/single. Did I go into it blind, based on reviews? Maybe. I recall it being put to great use in the vampire movie "Nadja."

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:10 (six years ago)

Steve Lamacq played, not Sour Times but Sour Sour Times the remix version from the CD, on the Radio 1 Evening Session, a coupla weeks before release of the single. I can still vividly recall frantically looking for a pen to write the title down with. Weird how no-one really knew about the Massive Attack connection for quite a while, i think The Face had probably done a piece on them by then but i wasn't hip to that yet. DL of this parish did a really good piece in Q about Dummy in 2017. I'd forgotten that it all came together via the Enterprise Allowance Scheme.

piscesx, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:20 (six years ago)

I remember hearing "Sour Times" on the radio and thinking "I don't care who this group is, I am buying this immediately"

I also remember having a conversation several months later with my mom where I was gushing about the album and she said "Oh I just heard this NPR story about some similar music, I really liked it and I'll have to find some reference to it when you come to visit later" and when I was home next and saw the info, it was a story about Portishead, lol.

brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:25 (six years ago)

i thought i was such a dope hip hop producer after dropping samples of this in my buddies MPC60 and making little loop beats.

(•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:31 (six years ago)

One of the few times I can distinctly remember the first time I heard something. I was at uni when it came out and don't think I was listening to the radio as much or I might have heard it there; instead I was in someone's room and they played Mysteron, very much in a This Is An Event kind of way. The theremin + drum roll sold me on it straight away.

The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:32 (six years ago)

I first heard this during a, uh, chemical episode, & "Roads" sent me into a paranoid freakout that lasted a couple of days. I bought the album soon thereafter and have stayed away from the chems ever since.

L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:35 (six years ago)

My college raver friends would always play this when we hung out in their dorm room smoking weed.

A rare perfect album.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:37 (six years ago)

instead I was in someone's room and they played Mysteron, very much in a This Is An Event kind of way

n.b. this person later achieved 15 minutes of minor fame by remonstrating with Russell Brand outside of the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:40 (six years ago)

Ahh was hoping for a deluxe edition of this throwing in all remixes, versions and the 'To Kill A Dead Man' soundtrack. Maybe in another 25 years.

lol trump-esque discogs commenters

DOCTOR_DIATRIBE23 April 20, 2017
edited over 2 years ago
referencing Numb, 12", Single, Promo, GODX 114, 857 561-1
Love Numb the LP version but the other mixes just don't work!.In fact they are very crap as the music and vocals do not fit!... But they would if they were instrumentals!!!!!! Oh yes Earth Linger would be a moody banger in the vain of Hindsight by DJ Shadow!....Also A Tribute To Monk & Canatella is a nice slow hod nodder/swayer that sounds more like a tribute to Bob James ala Nautilus... 5***** for Numb + A Tribute To Monk & Canatella orig but the others left me not only numb but comatose! Shame!

nashwan, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:44 (six years ago)

Back in those weird 90s days of CD bootlegs juuuuust pre-dated CDR compilations of B-sides and EPs and things (not that I would know anything about that), I found this for reasonably cheap and was not complaining (it was almost certainly less than the cost of the actual import singles combined):

https://www.discogs.com/Portishead-Non-Album-Tracks/release/630440

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:52 (six years ago)

YSI?

(•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:55 (six years ago)

Astounding.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:58 (six years ago)

I heard Sour Times on the radio on a rainy day while waiting in my mom's van as she ran errands. And I was immediately super in-love with it. I was just waiting for it to come on again. But I was nervous about buying the record for some reason. Didn't think it would be as good or something, expected filler, etc.

But then a friend of mine turned it on while we were driving around getting high and I was blown away. I still didn't buy the album though, just because my friend had it and we were always together.

Skipped the self-titled, but dipped back in when Roseland NYC Live came out, and I bought the Sour Times single on that same day.

☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 22 August 2019 17:02 (six years ago)

i remember seeing the video of "sour times" on mtv. it had nothing to do with the video which is on youtube these days. it was a kind of live video where you could see beth gibbons sing irc. i was totally blown away, i had never heard of the band before and nobody of my friends knew them. i was afraid to forget their name and that the band would be soon forgotten, they were totally obscure. the sadness in her voice grabbed me completely and i thought that this music was made only for me. i would have never thought that they would have so much success later on but if i remember well it took a couple of months before they really took off. of course i am very happy that they made it.

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:42 (six years ago)

maybe it was on 120 minutes as that was more or less the only programme i folowed on mtv.

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:43 (six years ago)

i picked up both original Sour Times cd singles (99p each) with some insane remixes/retakes, and fell hard.
still think the 'airbus reconstruction' (sounds like an early studio live version) is the best version.

mark e, Thursday, 22 August 2019 20:14 (six years ago)

KEXP is playing through the album with song-by-song commentary from Barrow and Utley: full interview audio stream and text excerpts here

https://www.kexp.org/read/2019/8/22/portisheads-geoff-barrow-and-adrian-utley-breakdown-dummy-25-years-later/

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:09 (six years ago)

lol at automated transcription

Andy Smith, who was an old maid from Portishead,

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:15 (six years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/arts/music/portishead-dummy-anniversary.html

Barrow would really prefer not hearing about the time(s) you fucked to Dummy.

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:15 (six years ago)

Shouldn't have made so many slow jamz

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:19 (six years ago)

still think the 'airbus reconstruction' (sounds like an early studio live version) is the best version.

airbus is an entirely different band! I love the hell out of that version as well.

☮ (peace, man), Friday, 23 August 2019 08:18 (six years ago)

well i never, i had no idea.
ta for the pointer.

mark e, Friday, 23 August 2019 09:33 (six years ago)

He gave them a tape with a click track on it and Beth Gibbons’ vocal, refusing to play them the full song until they’d written and recorded the music.

Wow I never knew this either, what a great idea

“Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 23 August 2019 12:15 (six years ago)

I still haven't heard Airbus on their own though, to my shame.

☮ (peace, man), Friday, 23 August 2019 12:36 (six years ago)

I picked up a cheap used vinyl copy of Dummy about a week after release from the Hackney branch of Music & Video Exchange, where it was filed under Hip-Hop.

fetter, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:40 (six years ago)

my favourite kind of "hip-hop". probably they confused hip-hop with trip-hop...

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:04 (six years ago)

Everybody is saying "Sour Times" "Sour Times" "Sour Times". The first PH song I heard was "Glory Box", and many times over, and the contrast of Beth Gibbons's cutesy delivery on the verses and her belting out the choruses reminded me of.. Jewel. And so I ignored this band until "All Mine" came out-- again, with the cutesy delivery? but irresistible. I don't think I listened to "Dummy" in its entirety until 2000. "Glory Box" was a misleading single! It works on the album sequence but on its own there is nothing to distinguish it from like.. Sneaker Pimps or whatever.

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 14:11 (six years ago)

I was in music limbo, cut off from radio and new releases, between the summer of 94 and end of 96, so only heard these guys once they had gained overexposure and kept being played in bars or student parties, which instinctively turned me off. For the longest time, I did not distinguish between 'Glory Box' and 'Hell Is Round The Corner'. It's "All Mine" and the 2nd album that brought me in.

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:26 (six years ago)

except Sneaker Pimps came out 2 years after and were an obvious knockoff xp

(•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:48 (six years ago)

i mean it's really not fair comparing them to groups that came out and copied their whole thing .

(•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:51 (six years ago)

yeah, I also only really got into Portishead after hearing 'All Mine'. I'd heard some stuff before then (probably mostly Glory Box), but it wasn't enough for me to buy their album

silverfish, Friday, 23 August 2019 14:54 (six years ago)

Oh for sure! I just had no idea about the rest of the album

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 15:10 (six years ago)

I actually love that Sneaker Pimps album, which doesn’t sound much like Portishead tbh

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:09 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

WHINEY: People seem to like having sex to this record.

hope this was fact-checked

mookieproof, Friday, 23 August 2019 19:47 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

Seems both have a pretty big chip on their shoulder.

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 24 August 2019 19:24 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

i do agree with them that billie eilish rocks and nils frahm sucks

american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 26 August 2019 18:36 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

Codswallop is a new one to me.

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 26 August 2019 22:27 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Olivia Colman has covered Portishead's brooding classic Glory Box in aid of Children In Need.

Mark G, Friday, 4 October 2019 13:49 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

Ohwwwww

Mark G, Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:50 (six years ago)

Fuck yessssssss

pomenitul, Thursday, 31 October 2019 09:20 (six years ago)

that was a bad joke post btw.

Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:12 (six years ago)

Sshhh, let my self-delusion be.

pomenitul, Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:16 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

i uttered an old saxon oath while crossing my thumbs, we're all golden

imago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:12 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

tbf 'SOS' dropped in like 2015

imago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:57 (six years ago)

Oh that's right

Mark G, Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:09 (six years ago)

SOS doesn't count. Covers don't count.

walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:38 (six years ago)

ten months pass...

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 (five years ago)

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 (five years ago)

20. Fa Real (feat. Jeru The Damaja)

YES

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:12 (five years ago)

Really liked Beak>'s last album, too

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 03:20 (five years ago)

nine months pass...

https://soundcloud.com/portishead-official/sos

pomenitul, Thursday, 8 July 2021 14:31 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

Good article!

Mark G, Friday, 9 July 2021 07:14 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

nine months pass...

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

i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 05:32 (four years ago)

^^^"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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

what do you mean, before you get too excited - is that 2022 video fake?

StanM, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 11:03 (four years ago)

Um, no.

Before you get excited about a new Portishead album in the link.

Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 11:12 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

full concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLX8LRILfj0

i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:20 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

They sound great in general though.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 01:52 (four years ago)

only a half hour show? were there more bands playing?

Idles headlining. Wrong way round, obvs.

Beth Gibbons sounds a bit out of breath in some segments

She's aged well though!

chap, Thursday, 5 May 2022 11:44 (four years ago)

amazing show, love it

StanM, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:05 (four years ago)

three years pass...

This went up three weeks ago with a link to donate to Together For Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2AmYPyXoUQ

nashwan, Monday, 13 October 2025 22:09 (seven months ago)


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