Portishead have shared a behind-the-scenes glimpse of their reunion efficiency for Collectively For Palestine – see under.
Earlier right this moment, it was introduced that the enduring trip-hop group had been added to the line-up of Brian Eno’s occasion at OVO Enviornment Wembley on September 17, alongside the likes of Damon Albarn, Sizzling Chip, Jamie xx, Sampha, Bastille and Paloma Religion.
Portishead have stated they are going to be unable to attend the occasion in individual, however as a substitute they’ve recorded a particular one-off efficiency of their 1994 observe ‘Roads’ with a string quartet, which shall be aired in the course of the night on the large screens.
Writing on Instagram on Wednesday (September 3), the band’s Geoff Barrow wrote: “Yesterday we went to the Sensible @cubemicroplex and filmed a reside track for the up and coming “Collectively for Palestine” live performance. We are able to’t be there within the day however we desperately wished to be concerned to place our voice to assist finish the Ongoing Genocide that’s going down proper now.”
The submit included images of the band on stage collectively – Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley – in addition to the string quartet. Examine them out right here:
The band have additionally shared a press release through which they are saying: “We’re extremely honoured to face in solidarity with Palestine and be a part of this significant occasion. The genocide should cease.”
Additionally showing on the present shall be Cat Burns, Greentea Peng, James Blake, King Krule, Mabel, Obongjayar, Rachel Chinouriri, Celeste, Leigh-Anne, Riz Ahmed, PinkPantheress and Rina Sawayama, alongside Palestinian artists Adnan Joubran, Faraj Suleiman, Nai Barghouti, Elyanna, Saint Levant and El Far3i. Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Man Pearce, Jameela Jamil and Ramy Youssef may even be there, as will broadcasters Amelia Dimoldenberg and Louis Theroux and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos.
You’ll find any remaining tickets to ‘Collectively For Palestine’ right here.
Portishead final performed reside in 2022 in a one-off present in Bristol for Warfare Little one UK. It was their first present for seven years they usually performed ‘Mysterons’, ‘Wandering Star’, ‘Roads’, ‘Magic Doorways’ and ‘The Rip’. Their final full-length album stays 2008’s ‘Third’.
Since then, Gibbons has launched her debut solo album ‘Lives Outgrown’ in 2024, which NME awarded 4 stars. “On ‘Lives Outgrown’ Gibbons makes use of this historical past to her benefit,” the evaluate stated. “She cannily foregrounds the weather-beaten gravitas of her vocal at every flip, its familiarity holding us tight in order that, in parallel, she will be able to undercut that feeling of security by regularly declaring the grains of sand falling into the unsuitable half of the hourglass.”
She additionally performed a solo tour throughout North America and made appearances at Glastonbury, Inexperienced Man and London’s Roundhouse this summer season.
Barrow, in the meantime, introduced he was leaving Beak> final 12 months after “almost 16 years of dangerous language & random tempo choices”. He performed his last exhibits with the group earlier this 12 months, with the band planning to proceed with out him.
