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An offshoot from Bristol's notorious dance collective The Wild Bunch, which also spawned Massive Attack, Soul II Soul and Tricky, Portishead
wereformed by Geoff Barrow - the tape op for Massive Attack's seminal Blue Lines - and Beth Gibbons, and were later joined by jazz guitarist
Adrian Utley. They named themselves after Geoff Barrow's place of birth, and proceeded to make a short film together, the soundtrack of
which earned them acontract with GoBeat Records.
As part of the team that made Blue Lines, Geoff Barrow was partly responsible for inventing trip-hop. With Portishead, he t ...read more
An offshoot from Bristol's notorious dance collective The Wild Bunch, which also spawned Massive Attack, Soul II Soul and Tricky, Portishead
wereformed by Geoff Barrow - the tape op for Massive Attack's seminal Blue Lines - and Beth Gibbons, and were later joined by jazz guitarist
Adrian Utley. They named themselves after Geoff Barrow's place of birth, and proceeded to make a short film together, the soundtrack of
which earned them acontract with GoBeat Records.
As part of the team that made Blue Lines, Geoff Barrow was partly responsible for inventing trip-hop. With Portishead, he took the logical
next step,and popularized the genre, to the point where it became the height of fashion in mid- and late-90s Britain. Bouyed by Beth
Gibbon's fragile,evocative voice (once described as 'a West Country Billie Holiday' by Q magazine), they also broke the American market,
with their debut albumDummy, and singles such as Glory Box and Sour Times (I). Dummy also won the Mercury Music Prize in 1995, beating
the Britpop vangaurd of Suede,Oasis, Pulp, and Blur.
After the sucess of Dummy, the band disappeared from the public eye before releasing their self-titled second album 3 years later. It did not
achievethe same levels of success as Dummy, despite positive reviews. Seemingly as a safety measure, the band released Roseland NYC
Live, an album oflive material, the next year. They have not released any new material in 6 years, though in the interim, Beth Gibbons has
released an album withTalk Talk's Rustin Man (2002's Out Of Season). Portishead's influence, meanwhile, can still be heard in Sneaker
Pimps, Morcheeba, and Lamb. « hide |
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