Portishead

Portishead was born in 1991 from the encounter between Beth Gibbons (chant) and multi-instrumentalist Geoff Barrow. Based on his experience as an assistant during Massive Attack's recording of the Blue Lines album, as well as his collaborations with Tricky, Geoff Barrow is ready to produce the band's first album. To do this, he joined Portishead (reference to his hometown) with jazz guitarist Adrian Hutley and sound engineer Dave McDonald. The formation signed its first contract and left Dummy in 1994. The album meets, to their surprise, a huge success with the public, and receives many awards. The British returned three years later with an eponymous album , then PNYC in 1998, live album captured at the Roseland Ballroom in New York with an orchestra of more than 35 musicians. Beth Gibbons will then decide to take a step back from his colleagues, and in 2002 will publish Out Of Season in duet with Rustin Man aka Paul Webb, who is none other than the former bassist of Talk Talk . Since then, insistent rumours suggest a possible release of a new Portishead opus, something that the group denies in 2004 via its official website. But in the spring of 2006, Geoff Barrow announced that titles are being written, reviving the hope of their many fans.
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