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Portishead Commence New Album (Finally)

added 19 January 2005 at 10.29

Following news of their tsunami benefit concert appearance and after eight years of presumably just dicking about, acclaimed Bristolian outfit Portishead have revealed that they’ve started work on their third album.

The duo of Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons released two critically acclaimed albums ‘Dummy’ in 1994 and ‘Portishead’ in 1997, and alongside Tricky and Massive Attack are often credited with popularising the trip-hop movement.

Since then they’ve done naff all for ages. But last week they announced they would be making their first live appearance in seven years at a tsunami relief concert in their hometown of Bristol alongside Massive Attack.

Now Barrow has revealed that a new record is finally on its
way, and explained that while inactive, the band never actually spilt up.

"We're actually into it as we speak,” he told 6 Music, “We took some time off for Christmas, but generally we're doing another record.

"We've just had our heads down really, we've never actually broken up, or parted, or whatever. So for us it just seems, even though we haven't played for years, we still see each other and write.

“We just haven't released a record for a long time."

Portishead will play Oxfam's tsumani appeal concert, alongside Massive Attack, The Coral and Robert Plant at the Bristol Academy on February 19.

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