Portishead (band)
| Portishead | |
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 Portishead live (2013) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Bristol , England |
| Genre (s) | Trip-hop , electronica , downtempo |
| founding | 1991 |
| Website | www.portishead.co.uk |
| Founding members | |
| Beth Gibbons | |
| Geoff Barrow | |
| Adrian Utley | |
Portishead is an English band of electronic music in 1991 in Bristol was founded and the pioneers of trip-hop is counted.
Members
Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow (arrangements), Beth Gibbons (vocals), Adrian Utley (guitar and synthesizer ) and Dave McDonald (sound engineer). Portishead are also supported live by Andy Smith (DJ), Clive Deamer (drums and percussion ), John Baggot (keyboards) and Jim Barr (bass).
Band history
founding
Geoff Barrow comes from the small town of Portishead and was involved in the production of the first Massive Attack album as a studio employee in nearby Bristol : He made tea and was allowed to operate the recording devices from time to time. Barrow was called "the guy from Portishead" by everyone. That gave him the idea to give his own project this name.
In 1991 Barrow met Beth Gibbons, who occasionally had small appearances in bars, but otherwise worked for an advertising agency. In the Coach House Studio they recorded their first session with jazz guitarist Adrian Utley: Sour Times .
In the spring of 1993, the band recorded a 3-track demo with sound engineer Dave McDonald ( Sour Times , It's a Fire and It Could Be Sweet ). In the same year they were released by the Go! Beat signed.
Dummy
The debut album Dummy was released in October 1994, reached number 2 on the UK album charts and received the Mercury Music Prize for best album of the year. The Rolling Stone leads this album in all time the list of 500 best albums on.
In connection with this album, the term trip-hop appeared for the first time . But this is the idea of a music journalist. The band themselves could never identify with it and never called their music that.
Especially with their atmospheric video clips for the first releases, Glory Box and Sour Times , they managed to attract attention beyond the trip-hop scene in Bristol. Glory Box went straight to number 13 in the UK singles charts without ever being played on the radio before. At the same time, Sour Times made the jump across the Atlantic into the regular clip loop of the US music channel MTV and became a great success in the US within a few weeks. Portishead were the first band to carry the trip-hop music style from the trendy clubs of Bristol to America. On the foundation of slow and sluggish beats, they built a melancholy, atmospheric and novel sound. Portishead's music is often borrowed from hip-hop . There are similar backgrounds, relaxed beats, samples and scratching. Many bands were inspired by it. These include, for example, the sneakers Pimps , Baxter and Lamb .
Portishead
After these successes, Portishead took several years to work on their second album, Portishead . It was published in England in September 1997 and a little later in Germany. Portishead worked exclusively with samples that they had recorded themselves for their new work. More playful sounds stepped back and gave way to deeper, more spherical and sometimes darker passages. Also Portishead is considered a milestone of trip-hop history.
Roseland NYC Live
After a hugely successful tour, the band released a live album in 1998. The majority of the album consists of recordings from a concert on July 24, 1997 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York . The recordings of Roads and Sour Times on the album are from festival appearances. The band was reinforced throughout the tour by musicians from the New York Symphony Orchestra . The complete Roseland concert was also released on video (VHS) and later on DVD (under the slightly modified title Roseland New York ) and was supplemented by all Portishead music videos that had been released until then, with the exception of Glory Box .
Solo projects
1999 Portishead played with Tom Jones the song Motherless Child on his album Reload . On this album covert Tom Jones and Portishead All Mine .
Adrian Utley released the album Warminster in 1999 together with Mount Vernon Arts Lab .
In February 2003 Beth Gibbons released the album Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season together with the former talk-talk bassist Paul Webb (under the pseudonym "Rustin Man") . Beth Gibbons also contributed the complete soundtrack to the French film L'Annulaire by Diane Bertrand .
As part of a benefit concert in aid of the victims of the tsunami disaster in December 2004 , Portishead performed live for the first time since 1998 in Bristol (Carling Academy) on February 19, 2005. It was a 40-minute performance with old songs and a joint performance of the tracks Karma Coma (Portishead Experience Remix) and Glory Box with Massive Attack.
In May 2006 Portishead released the song Requiem for Anna (Un Jour Comme Un Autre - Anna) on the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited , on which artists such as Kid Loco , Tricky and Placebo also covered titles by Serge Gainsbourg .
On February 25, 2007, Portishead performed without notice during a Grumpy Man club night in Bristol at Mr. Wolf's Noodle Bar, announced as a DJ set by Geoff Barrow , playing two songs - a new version of Wandering Star and a previously unnamed song. The band released the new live version of Wandering Star on their YouTube page.
From December 7th to 9th, 2007, a festival headlined by Portishead took place in the British coastal town of Minehead in West Somerset near Bristol . As part of this festival, the group performed for the first time in 10 years with a full live program and new song material, including five previously unreleased tracks: Mystic ( The Rip ), Peaches ( We Carry On ), Hunter , Wicca ( Silence ) and Machine Gun . The track Machine Gun became the first single release for the new album Third .
On May 7, 2012, Geoff Barrow released his album Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One in collaboration with Ben Salisbury ("Drokk" is the term in the Judge Dredd universe for all evil that mega-city houses).
Third
Since the beginning of 2004 there have been occasional statements from band members that a new album should come out. Later both singer Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow confirmed the work on a new album, and an official MySpace page was created under the name Portisheadalbum3 , which was overseen by Geoff Barrow. Planned completion dates have been postponed over the years. In December 2007 five new songs were presented at the ATP Festival.
After the complete album was presented to the press in Berlin on March 19, 2008, it was released on April 25, 2008 under the title Third . It was the first Portishead album in over 10 years and musically signified a departure from trip-hop towards the electronic avant-garde .
For some time now, music has been circulating on Internet swappers that has been referred to as Portishead's “unreleased” third album. This compilation of songs was initially called Pearl and later with mostly the same music but different track titles, Alien . In fact, in both cases it was the debut album of the very similar sounding band Mandalay , occasionally supplemented with 1–2 tracks from other bands.
Others
Geoff Barrow also runs the Invada Records label . So far, u. a. Crippled Black Phoenix , Gonga, and Thought Forms published.
On December 10th (International Human Rights Day) 2009 the single Chase the Tear was released. All proceeds went to Amnesty International . A limited version on vinyl was released on November 14, 2011. On October 5, 2011, Portishead played the song live on the show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon .
Portishead contributed a cover version of the ABBA song SOS for the film High-Rise . The music video ends with a quote from British politician Jo Cox , who was murdered on June 16, 2016.
Discography
Studio albums
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Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1994 | Dummy |
DE45 (19 weeks) DE |
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CH26th  (16 weeks)CH |
UK2  × 3
(111 weeks)UK |
US79 (17 weeks)US |
First published: August 22, 1994
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| 1997 | Portishead |
DE7 (18 weeks) DE |
AT6 (9 weeks) AT |
CH11 (8 weeks)CH |
UK2 (27 weeks)UK |
US21 (16 weeks) US |
First published: September 29, 1997
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| 2008 | Third |
DE6 (11 weeks) DE |
AT4 (11 weeks) AT |
CH2 (12 weeks) CH |
UK2 (9 weeks)UK |
US7 (11 weeks) US |
First published: April 28, 2008
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Live albums
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| 1998 | Roseland NYC Live |
DE58 (5 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK40  (2 weeks)UK |
US155 (1 week) US |
First published: November 2, 1998
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more publishments
- 1995: Glory Times
- 1995: The Rebirth of Cool Phive
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1994 | Sour Times Dummy |
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UK13 (8 weeks) UK |
US53 (9 weeks) US |
First published: August 1, 1994
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| 1995 | Glory box dummy |
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UK13 (8 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: January 2, 1995
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| 1997 | All Mine Portishead |
- | - |
CH42 (1 week) CH |
UK8 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: September 8, 1997
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| Over Portishead |
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UK25 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: November 10, 1997
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| 1998 | Only You Portishead |
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UK35 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
First published: March 2, 1998
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| 2008 | Machine Gun Third |
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UK52 (3 weeks) UK |
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First published: March 24, 2008
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More singles
- 1994: Numb
- 2008: The Rip
- 2008: Magic Doors
- 2009: Chase the Tear
Remixes
- 1993: Depeche Mode - In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)
- 1993: Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes (Grungy Gonads Mix)
- 1993: Gabrielle - Going Nowhere (Portishead Mix)
- 1993: Whores of Babylon - Fall of Agade (Portishead Remix)
- 1994: Earthling - 1st Transmission (Portishead's Earthead Mix)
- 1994: The Federation - Rusty James (Portishead Remix)
- 1994: Gravediggaz - Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide (Portishead Remix)
- 1994: Paul Weller - Wild Wood (The Sheared Wood Remix)
- 1994: Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up (Portishead Remix)
- 1994: Ride - Moonlight Medicine (Portishead's Ride on the Wire Mix)
- 1994: Sabers of Paradise - Planet D (Portishead Remix)
- 1994: UNKLE - The Time Has Come (Portishead Plays Unkle Mix)
- 1995: Earthling - Nefisa (Portishead Mix)
- 1995: Junkwaffel - Mudskipper (Portishead So-So Mix)
- 1995: Massive Attack - Karmacoma (Portishead Experience)
- 1995: Nine - Whutcha Want (Portishead Mix)
- 1997: Natalie Imbruglia - Leave Me Alone (Portishead Remix)
- 1999: Baby Namboos - Ancoats 2 Zambia (Geoff Barrow Remix)
- 1999: Something for Kate - Easy (Mr Barrow and Mr Yates Surfin 'for Kate Remix)
- 2002: Machine Gun Fellatio - Horny Blonde 40 (Portishead Remix)
- 2015: SOS - Abba (Portishead Remix for motion picture "High Rise")
Live sets
- 1995: Essential Mix - Sounds City Week from Bristol
swell
- ↑ Official page of the benefit concert ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the tsunami disaster of December 26, 2004 in Asia
- ↑ Grumpy Man website with the message to the live gig in Bristol on February 25, 2007 (Engl.)
- ↑ YouTube page of Portishead (Engl.)
- ↑ Portishead announce comeback show Portishead announce comeback appearance , press release from May 22, 2007
- ^ Website of the All Tomorrows's Parties Festival Nightmare before Christmas in December 2007 with Portishead as headliner. (engl.)
- ↑ Review of the album Third ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Mark Stewart (The Pop Group / The Maffia) in Spex # 313 03/2008.
- ↑ Artist of the Week: Geoff Barrow - FM4 2012
- ↑ Die Zeit: Portishead - The inventors are back
- ↑ Portishead to release 'Chase the tear' as limited edition vinyl for Amnesty , Amnesty International, November 11, 2011
- ↑ Portishead publish minimalistic video for ABBA cover "SOS" , Musikexpress , June 22, 2016
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: [officialcharts.de/suche?artist_search=Portishead&do_search=do DE] AT CH UK US
Web links
- Official website of the band (English)
- Portishead at Allmusic (English)
- Portishead on MusicBrainz (English)
- Portishead at Discogs (English)