― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 24 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think you're a bit hasty at the moment, though.....
― RUSS T, Monday, 24 February 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
Beautiful.
― russ t, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― russ t, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Maybe they just felt bored.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtE62pFC8jU&eurl=http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137709-watch-listen-learn--geoff-barrows-beak&feature=player_embedded
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 August 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like The Horrors but without the moaning dude.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 August 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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
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 (fourteen years ago) link
That track is ZOMG!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
wow great song!
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like steppin' out...gone portishead!
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck yeah! and the video on vimeo is great too.
― ianmaxwell, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
the single crisp rising synth is so awesome
― ianmaxwell, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
sigue sigue sputnik more like
― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that song is great!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 10 December 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
...
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Top notch song. A new album can't come soon enough.
― van smack, Friday, 11 December 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Am liking the Beak> album much more than the Horrors tbh.
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Friday, 11 December 2009 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
they used Apparat - Arcadia a few episodes back and generally surprise me a few times each season
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 December 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Ehh. I thought that album was kinda... bad, tbh. :I
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Chase the Tear reminds me in parts of NIN, oddly.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Thursday, 17 December 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
'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 (fourteen years ago) link
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
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing there as yet, beyond May's "Chase the Tear"
Reckon they'll have got that fourth album sorted pretty quickly...
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
This is potentially exciting.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
*crosses fingers*
― just sayin, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/Portisheadinfo
^ new portishead album, news at six
― Albert mangles dwarf (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
6 pm where?
― Avatar: The Last SBanner (kkvgz), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Portishead
― Albert mangles dwarf (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
lol. makes sense.
― Avatar: The Last SBanner (kkvgz), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
on sale friday: http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/I-LL-BE-YOUR-MIRROR-CURATED-BY-PORTISHEAD-ATP
― joe, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.portishead.co.uk/news.php
^ oh well, there you go
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
In tribute, I am going to Portishead for dinner tonight.
― ia! ia! Cartman fthagn! (aldo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, that was pleasant.
― ia! ia! Cartman fthagn! (aldo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Oh whoa, that is awesome that DD/MM/YYYY are playing!
― brie on crüt (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.portishead.co.uk/
― SongOfSam, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oops. Meant to show new North American tour announcement.
― SongOfSam, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
i want to go to there.
― LaMonte, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
So who got tickets? I'm set for the LA show...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 July 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
Going to the Montreal show.
― sofatruck, Saturday, 16 July 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
got berkeley tix
― akm, Sunday, 17 July 2011 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
first night in toronto. should be an good thanksgiving.
― LaMonte, Sunday, 17 July 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
yes, beth indeed crowdsurfed.
― beta blog, Friday, 7 October 2011 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
wtf
― akm, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
I can believe it!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
ticket for sunday show still hasn't arrived. ordered it in july, wtf
― LaMonte, Friday, 7 October 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Going to see them tonight! Can't wait!
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 7 October 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Wow should be great!
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
saw then last night. astonishing.
― LaMonte, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Goddamn. Hey Portishead, come to England!
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Monday, 10 October 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
uh they played about 2-3 months ago
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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.
The track is a cover version of Abba’s SOS.
― Mark G, Friday, 9 October 2015 09:51 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
yup i can totally see her style nailing the verses
― brimstead, Monday, 12 October 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjnoX_EyN0
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 25 April 2016 05:10 (seven years ago) link
...and it's gone :/
― willem, Monday, 25 April 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
I don't know what I was on about, above: I can so imagine this.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 April 2016 09:06 (seven years ago) link
Here:
http://www.ponapisach.pl/2016/04/portishead-sos-abba-cover.html
― groovypanda, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Nice but sounds pretty much exactly like anyone would have imagined
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 25 April 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
it did and at this point their dourness is almost comic.
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
I want to hear this!!!!!!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 28 April 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
well it probably only took them an hour to do this over email
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
ok
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
I can do a pretty good impression of it if anyone needs me.
― Mr. Hathaway. (jed_), Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
I actually quite like it and it works really well in the context of the film.
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
So this have had a bakers dozen looks like.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
great selections
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
biscuit is awesome
my ten (don't really know the 3rd album well)
mysteronsstrangersnumbbiscuitcowboysall mineundeniedhalf day closingmourning aironly you
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
theme from to kill a dead man is great too
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Havent heard it but I know Adrian has been on goldfrapps records ??
― Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
"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 (five years ago) link
When you can spot a sic post in the first 2 words
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 2 July 2018 07:27 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Did they play machine gun? ^^^
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
#Dummy25 22/08/1994 pic.twitter.com/lD0logm5bh— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) August 21, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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, 2017edited 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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
YSI?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Astounding.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
lol at automated transcription
Andy Smith, who was an old maid from Portishead,
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 22 August 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Shouldn't have made so many slow jamz
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 23 August 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
well i never, i had no idea.ta for the pointer.
― mark e, Friday, 23 August 2019 09:33 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
I still haven't heard Airbus on their own though, to my shame.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 23 August 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
except Sneaker Pimps came out 2 years after and were an obvious knockoff xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Oh for sure! I just had no idea about the rest of the album
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
I actually love that Sneaker Pimps album, which doesn’t sound much like Portishead tbh
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
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
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
― 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
what do you mean, before you get too excited - is that 2022 video fake?
― StanM, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
Um, no.
Before you get excited about a new Portishead album in the link.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 11:12 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
They sound great in general though.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
amazing show, love it
― StanM, Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link