Portishead

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I always like Morcheeba, who similarly got tossed in as imitators but I thought sounded totally different.

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

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.

I was gonna say, that Sneaker Pimps album rules.

"Spin Spin Sugar" rules (both the original and the Armand Van Helden speed garage mix)

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.

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

hope this was fact-checked

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

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.

Seems both have a pretty big chip on their shoulder.

GB on Twitter sure is an old curmudgeon. Very off-putting.

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

Utter codswallop https://t.co/ERuHEQ1GkI

— Geoff Barrow (@jetfury) August 25, 2019

Codswallop is a new one to me.

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

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...

yeah, I've been speaking to Geoff about this, off the record, and it's almost finished.

Ohwwwww

Fuck yessssssss

that was a bad joke post btw.

Sshhh, let my self-delusion be.

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

WRONG THREADS WHOOPS that was about the avalanches, i'm tired and also dumb

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

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.

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

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

tbf 'SOS' dropped in like 2015

Oh that's right

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

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.

Not the bump I was most hoping for here, but still cool news.

20. Fa Real (feat. Jeru The Damaja)

YES

Really liked Beak>'s last album, too

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

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.

I do wish they'd released it via Bandcamp or another platform that allowed downloads :/

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/

Good article!

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.

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

^^^"Portishead, playing Roads at a benefit concert for Ukraine at the O2 Academy in Bristol on May 2nd 2022."

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..

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"

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