Portishead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtE62pFC8jU&eurl=http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137709-watch-listen-learn--geoff-barrows-beak&feature=player_embedded

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

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

That track is ZOMG!

wow great song!

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

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

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

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)?

the single crisp rising synth is so awesome

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

sigue sigue sputnik more like

that song is great!

...

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

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

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

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

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"...

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

http://tinyurl.com/yar37lt

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

'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).

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

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

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

This is potentially exciting.

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

*crosses fingers*

http://twitter.com/Portisheadinfo

^ new portishead album, news at six

6 pm where?

Portishead

lol. makes sense.

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.

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

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

^ oh well, there you go

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

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

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

Well, that was pleasant.

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.

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

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

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

Oops. Meant to show new North American tour announcement.

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?

Um, no.

Before you get excited about a new Portishead album in the 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

It explains it in the notes, but still listed as it is an object that exists.

Um, no.

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

?? Roads is from Dummy.

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

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')

They sound great in general though.

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!

amazing show, love it