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 (eight years ago) link
...and it's gone :/
― willem, Monday, 25 April 2016 06:49 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Here:
http://www.ponapisach.pl/2016/04/portishead-sos-abba-cover.html
― groovypanda, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
Nice but sounds pretty much exactly like anyone would have imagined
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 25 April 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
it did and at this point their dourness is almost comic.
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:00 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
I want to hear this!!!!!!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 28 April 2016 12:33 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
ok
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:44 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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