Portishead

Portishead don't want to send audiences to sleep

Music Gossip

25 Jul 2011

Portishead don't play some of their songs live because they think the audience "would go to sleep." The group's founder, Geoff Barrow, admits they leave some tracks from their 2008 album 'Third' out of performances, because he doesn't feel they would…

Portishead struggle with new songs

Music Gossip

19 Jul 2011

Portishead find it "hell" making music. Geoff Barrow, instrumentalist for the English group - who are also made up of singer Beth Gibbons and guitarist Adrian Utley - revealed the three-piece group find it tough to create tracks because they are not…

2009 Mercury Music Prize shortlist on show

Regardless of who triumphs, contenders' nomination is gain enough

24 Jul 2009

This past year has seen Elbow prove to all just what a Mercury win can do to a band's career. Though toiling for near 15 years in relative indie obscurity, seemingly destined to never play the arenas their songs merited, their 2008 victory for fourth…

EIFF 2009 - All Tomorrow’s Parties

11 Jun 2009

For those who count themselves among its regular crowd, the feeling is that once you’ve been to All Tomorrow’s Parties you can’t go back to just any old festival. Currently held in a Butlin’s holiday camp at Minehead, Somerset, the tri-annual weekend…

Portishead - Third

24 Apr 2008

ELECTRONICA (Island) No one ever really expected Dummy MkII did they? For trip hop – the smoky sub-genre Portishead inadvertently helped create – is a distant, smouldering ember but Third is glorious, odd and timeless, a record of clanking, throbbing…

Portishead

10 Apr 2008

In today’s stack ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap, drop ‘em even quicker music industry where the write-record-release-tour hamster wheel is king, the return of Bristolian trio Portishead back into our lives is a cause for celebration for some and relief for…