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Saw Portishead live in Amsterdam the other night. F**k me, it was great!!!!
'Roads' still is one their best tracks..what a classic!
And they closed 'we carry on', a new track, and it's guitarparts reminded me very much of Joy Division, maybe some of you have heard it already?
Other new stuff sounds good as well, bit more industrial kinda sounding beats but still Portishead.
I'm seeing them at the Apollo tomorrow night. They really are one of the best live acts I've ever seen: recall them playing in a tiny tent at Glastonbury in 1995, the crowd cheering every time the singer opened her mouth.....like seeing Sinatra, or summat.....
Martijn de Blaauw wrote: Saw Portishead live in Amsterdam
i can top that - i live in portishead
Recognise the drum machine? Looking forward to the new album.
Yous Portishead fans probably know that Mysteron is obviously a nod to Barry Gray, but if you use you filetheft client to search for Barry Gray, Mysteron Theme, you will see that the track is a total homage to that one piece.
Well Jools introduced them at the start but there's 2 minutes left ans they still haven't done a song yet.
That was the coolest thing I've seen in weeks.
What a voice she's got.
EDIT: Paxman! What a comedown!
I'm taping it so I can put it on next time I've got mates round.
I'll pop it on when I want them to leave.
I was feeling all happy after PH, now I'm all fed up.
I'm going to get one of them miserable content filters on my telly.
Portishead. They are ace. Pity the gig in Manchester was full of Mancs last week. Ruined my (£35) night they did, fucking wankers.
Sorry, Col, but Mancunians are the worst bunch of cunts on the planet.
Actually, MARTIN, you're not exactly the ideal gig partner are you? Spent all of one gig screaming AGE OF CON FUCKING SENT down my ear and earned me a fractured skull at another.
So shut it 
BIGINLYCRA wrote: Actually, MARTIN, you're not exactly the ideal gig partner are you? Spent all of one gig screaming AGE OF CON FUCKING SENT down my ear and earned me a fractured skull at another.
So shut it
I remember nothing.
johnny wrote: Well Jools introduced them at the start but there's 2 minutes left ans they still haven't done a song yet.
will do 3 songs in the extended version on friday.
Absolutely brilliant on Later.Watched it on Friday night and just again On Demand.Aye they're deffo doing a Radiohead and fleshing out down different directions and avenues and good on em for that .We Carry On was superb and great how Beth dissappeared after she finished her vocals to leave the band to finish the climactic ending.Loved the guitars on that one.Beth hasn't aged a bit either.
The new album is available for free download, a week before release, on Last FM, from next week, apparently.
Burt Reynolds wrote: The new album is available for free download, a week before release, on Last FM, from next week, apparently.
I have already :cough:aquired:cough: it .Superb
I scored a last minute ticket (at below face value!) for Thursday's London show at Brixton..was very impressed and really liked the new tracks..good to see them back!
BIGINLYCRA wrote: I'm taping it so I can put it on next time I've got mates round.
I'll pop it on when I want them to leave.
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I can promise you that won't work
Portishead were great in Edinburgh. Fantastic night.
Dodjem wrote: Is it just me or have you pooh poohed every band/cd suggestion tonight?
Well funny you should say that - I've just let off a huge apocalyptic fart in the general direction of a band from Liverpool just a moment ago.
A truly exquisite exorcism indeed, I must say! :D
By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote: Is it just me or have Portishead aged about 10 years since I last saw them on telly?
The one on guitar maybe.But not the lovely Beth
Interview and session versions (?) of The Rip and Machine Gun on Pete Tong's Thursday night show.
Part 1 is at 20 mins in and Part 2 at 50 mins in
Not impressed by the new album. Was really hoping they would go back in the direction of Dummy... maybe it requires a couple listens, but not at all as good as Dummy of the Self-titled...:\ohwell:
I'm sick of Machine Gun already altho wasn't a big fan of it in the first place.But The Rip , We Carry On, Silence and Threads are good uns
Had a bit of time to digest the Jools Holland bits. Machine Gun is a bit pointless really - repetitive, tuneless, aimless..... a bit of a non-sequitur really. The other tune We Carry On is a bit better - more expansive and cinematic. Take away Beth Gibbons' voice though and it's pretty pedestrian fare really - that's being truthful.
Maybe I was one of the few who preferred their second album to the all-too-familiar coffee table staple that was their first album? I don't know.... I loved the darker tones and more distorted vocalising of that second album. But then live, they're an unpredictable proposition aren't they? I believe it's true that Beth Gibbons stage-dived into the audience at one or two gigs - she was that pissed. Can someone verify this and confirm that it's not just rumour? Well, if that was the case, good for her! I wish I was there to see that!
By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote:
Maybe I was one of the few who preferred their second album to the all-too-familiar coffee table staple that was their first album? I don't know.... I loved the darker tones and more distorted vocalising of that second album.
Oh aye i'm with you on that one.I much prefer the second album from the first.For the same reasons you mention - the darker tones and the distorted vocals.Like about half of the new album but out of all three albums ( i don't count the live in NY one ) the second is the best in my opinion.
johnny wrote:
By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote:
Maybe I was one of the few who preferred their second album to the all-too-familiar coffee table staple that was their first album? I don't know.... I loved the darker tones and more distorted vocalising of that second album.
Oh aye i'm with you on that one.I much prefer the second album from the first.For the same reasons you mention - the darker tones and the distorted vocals.Like about half of the new album but out of all three albums ( i don't count the live in NY one ) the second is the best in my opinion.
While I think Dummy had more timeless songs, I put their second album not as second-class to their first, but in a catagory of its own. I wouldn't want it changed a bit... but it is definately a mood album, whereas Dummy is good for anytime.
By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote: H
I believe it's true that Beth Gibbons stage-dived into the audience at one or two gigs - she was that pissed. Can someone verify this and confirm that it's not just rumour?
Hmmm..... not sure i've ever heard of her being totally pissed at a gig and jumping into the audience.Sure you're not thinking of Courtney Love?
johnny wrote:
By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote: H
I believe it's true that Beth Gibbons stage-dived into the audience at one or two gigs - she was that pissed. Can someone verify this and confirm that it's not just rumour?
Hmmm..... not sure i've ever heard of her being totally pissed at a gig and jumping into the audience.Sure you're not thinking of Courtney Love?
No, not at all, I'm positive that there was a gig review (either in the Melody Maker or the NME or even SELECT - can't be exactly sure) that actually went on about how surprised the audience was when Beth took it upon herself at one of the encores to actually jump into the crowd. The exact tour, year, city and venue escapes me but I might have to delve into some back issues of old music inklies to see if I can track it down. It were well funny reading about it though. I do remember seeing them collecting a Brit award (or was it the Mercury Music prize?) and Beth was none the worse for wear from drink and stood up there gesticulating and laughing behind Geoff Barrow's back as he tried to make an acceptance speech or summat.
