Portishead Returns
March 7th, 2007Jeff pointed me to this article the other day:
“Adrian and Beth joined Geoff onstage and blew all our collective brains to s***,” the Grumpy Man DJs said on their Web site.
In the reclusive band’s first live appearance since 2005’s Tsunami Benefit Show, the trio performed their classic track “Wandering Star” before jumping into a new song.
This is way overdue – it has been so long since I got that pit-of-my-stomach anxious can’t wait feeling for a new bit of music. But here it is again. Welcome back knotty stomach, welcome back.
Someone caught “Wandering Star” on video, but unfortunately stopped before the new track.
This means, of course, that I have to break out the old teeshirt:
Update: Here’s footage of probably the best version of “Strangers” ever recorded – complete with orchestra and horn section. Circa nineteen-ninety-something at Roseland Ballroom in NYC. There is no better example of Portishead bringing down the house. Jeffy, weren’t you at this show?
Thinking about the new album makes me wet.
YES. I was at Roseland. Life has just been one big disappointment since that night.