Portishead

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

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

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

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

Wow should be great!

saw then last night. astonishing.

Goddamn. Hey Portishead, come to England!

uh they played about 2-3 months ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Portishead News

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

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

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

yup i can totally see her style nailing the verses

Here it is

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

...and it's gone :/

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

Here:

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

Nice but sounds pretty much exactly like anyone would have imagined

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

Works in the film!

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

afaik it will not be for sale anywhere

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

ok

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

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

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

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

this cover is tight. jeez y'all

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

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

So this have had a bakers dozen looks like.

great selections

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?

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

theme from to kill a dead man is great too

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