Portishead is a trip hop band from Bristol, United Kingdom, named fallowing a village of Portishead, 12 miles west of Bristol. A title is pronounced 'Por-tis-head', by using an 's' in the midst, & non 'Por-ti-shead'. Sustaining their neat utilise of survive jazz samples and designedly lo-fi sound, the band hwhen been cited as influential by numbers of modern musicians including Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland and remix artist DJ Dangermouse.

A band was formed around 1991, by keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons. Barrow got antecedently worked sustaining deuce more hike hop elastic from either Bristol, Massive Attack and Tricky, and decided to title his fresh endeavour when his hometown.

When releasing the short film (To Kill A Dead Man) and its accompanying music, Portishead signed the record treat with Go! Beat and their first album, Dummy, was released in 1994, and featured heavy contributions from guitarist Adrian Utley. Within spite of the band's media-shyness, a album was successful inside each Europe and the United States, spawning two hit singles, "Glory Box" & "Sour Times". Portishead hwhen typically been utilized as accompanying music in the media. Such examples include car ad, Channel 4 intermissions, and virtually all notably a adolescent drama series Sugar Rush.

Their 2nd album, Portishead, was released inside 1997, and featured a individual "All Mine". The survive album featuring newly orchestral arrangements of the group's songs was recorded primarily at Roseland within New York City, and freed inside 1998 with a DVD of the concert before long charted. 1999 saw a cooperation using singer Tom Jones for a track in his album Reload.

Inside 2005, Utley and Barrow produced The Coral's The Invisible Invasion.

There keep close at hand been rumor of the third album to become published, even known as Alien, however there are no such record has been freed, & Portishead's official places dismisses a hearsay: "We have noticed that there is some confusion on an album release called "Alien". Please be aware that this is NOT a Portishead release. The band are in the studio working on new material now but no release dates are scheduled as yet. Keep an eye on the site as any release plans will of course be announced here first!" [http://www.portishead.co.uk/breaking/index.htm Portishead official site news]

Portishead & more thus-alleged trip hop groups have expressed dislike for the term, arguing these are the media invention designed to categorize their otherwise does'nt-therefore-categorizable music.

Discography

Albums

1994 Dummy #2 UK, #79 US 1997 Portishead #2 UK, #21 US 1998 PNYC (live) #40 UK, #155 US 2002 Out of Season (Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man)

Hit singles

A chart positions come for a UK, the greatest United states of america chart position was #53 for "Sour Times".

from either Dummy 1995 "Glory Box" #15 UK 1995 "Sour Times" #13 UK from either Portishead 1997 "All Mine" #8 UK 1997 "Over" #25 UK 1998 "Only You" #35 UK