Current TV presents an exclusive premiere of British trip-hop phenomenon Portishead’s studio performance as they unveil seven songs from their new album “Third” in Portishead, England. The band is performing 7 tracks from the new album. To watch 40-minute programm go there. The show has been recorded in the school’s Art, Music and Drama department in Portishead. For several troubled years, Barrow attended this school, and it was here that he started playing the drums.
10 years since their last record, Portishead have finally broken their silence with album number three. So what took them so long, asks Craig McLean from Telegraph. You can read this amazing article here. Some interesting parts of the article:
“Then, three years ago, Portishead popped up en masse once more, playing a tsunami benefit in Bristol. Publicising the concert, Barrow said that the band were in the thick of making the long-awaited third album. What this actually meant was that they had three songs they were happy with: Magic Doors, We Carry On and Grey Skies. In fact, it was only two: Grey Skies is not on Third.
But they had some momentum?
‘Yes,’ Utley says. ‘More to the point,’ Barrow adds, ‘we had broken through.’
What of Beth Gibbons during this period? Ill with exhaustion after the second album’s tour, she retreated to Devon. Utley would visit her, and they would take long walks on Dartmoor. ‘We’d have deep conversations and she’d say, “That’s what that song is about…” But that’s as far as I’d go with it – I don’t ask her to explain them to me.’
Barrow says that he and Gibbons’s working relationship is healthier than ever. It has helped with the songwriting, to which all three contribute, with Gibbons solely responsible for the lyrics.”
“When the tour is completed Utley wants to do some more soundtrack work. Barrow aims to release more records on Invada and complete a long-mooted hip-hop project with some friends. ‘Also, writing hip-hop music helps me get something out of my system and then I can go on to something else. Then hopefully,’ he says with a smile, ‘we’ll carry on writing Portishead stuff.’
The fourth record, he promises, ‘will be a lot quicker. Unless something ginormous happens.’”
Also, watch a port of the new Portishead video of “We Carry On” song here!