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23rd May 2007, 11:45 AM #1
Portishead - Slackers Supreme
News from the NME website today:
Portishead are set to play their first official gig for nearly 10 years.
The band are set to curate and perform at All Tomorrow's Parties Nightmare Before Christmas event, which is sue to take place in Minehead between December 7-9.
Writing on their Myspace the band wrote: "We've chosen a diverse collection of artists to play with us and we're looking forward to it."
In February the band made an impromptu acoustic appearance at Bristol's Mr Wolf's venue where they previewed new material, but the Minehead performance will be their first official show.
The band are currently working on their first new album since 1997's 'Portishead' album.
The third album has been a long time coming. On 20 June 2006, an article was posted on the NME saying:
Portishead have revealed details about their third studio album.
Founding member Geoff Barrow has revealed the band have completed their songs for their third album.
It will be the first new material since their second self-titled album from 1997. The bands last release was 'Roseland NYC Live' in 1998.
Posting on the band's Myspace page Barrow wrote: "We've had our meeting with the label it was really positive....which makes the whole thing so much easier to deal with nice people...The tracks are in a right mess but sounding like a album for the first time in years they (are) a bit weird though. Its great its nice to think us old gits have a few tunes in us without sounding like coffee table Zero 7 - Moby - chill out shit!"Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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23rd May 2007, 12:03 PM #2
I have to say I always hated them. Their dreary music was forever floating through darkened, suspiciously weedy-smelling bedrooms when I was at University. It was like a soundtrack of death.
Si.
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23rd May 2007, 1:27 PM #3One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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23rd May 2007, 2:23 PM #4Portishead are set to play their first official gig for nearly 10 years.
Why don't their two Tsunami gigs from 2005 count?
That's a bit like the reporting in the Metro today, stating that cd singles were first in shops in 1982!
Anyways, I like Portishead, they're better than Massive Attack, but not as good as Tricky.“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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23rd May 2007, 5:19 PM #5If it wasn't for music like this, we'd all be listening to Cliff Richard & Bucks Fizz all day long!
Si.
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23rd May 2007, 6:57 PM #6
I got into Portishead through their allegience to the great John Barry (an obvious influence on their cinematic, orchestrated sound). I still think "Dummy" is a classic, although "Portishead" not as much so ("All mine" was a brilliant single though). They always seemed to display pretentions above and beyond what the music probably deserved, but the music was always atmospheric and captivating to me. Moody and ambigious in meaning , but no soundtrack of death.
Great music to shag to an' all.
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26th May 2007, 1:58 AM #7Wayne Guest
I'm listening to 'Mysterons'.
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26th May 2007, 11:12 AM #8
I was 10 last time they released any new material!
Ant x
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26th May 2007, 11:14 AM #9
I wasn't even born.
Si.
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26th May 2007, 2:16 PM #10Wayne Guest
I didn't 'discover' Portishead until about 5yrs or so back, but i've got both their studio albums, & their re-mix stuff, & the live album & dvd, & Beth Gibbons' 'solo' album. They're pretty dark & moody, but i really like 'em.
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