Portishead

Portishead are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol. They are often considered one of the pioneers of trip hop music. The band is named after the nearby town of the same name, eight miles west of Bristol, along the coast. Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on their first records. Their debut album, Dummy, was met with critical acclaim in 1994. Two other studio albums have been issued: Portishead in 1997 and Third in 2008. In 1998, the band released a concert album called Roseland, NYC Live.
== Links to Peel ==
Peel played their debut single, Sour Times in 1994 and another track from their Dummy album later on in that year. In an interview in 2019 with KEXP, Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley acknowledged Peel playing their single and also not playing it again when it became popular: 
Adrian Utley: I remember John Peel playing something of ours, and that was like a massive moment because he'd been the person you trusted so much about music. That was so cool that's where I first heard Joy Division, so to hear him play one of our tunes it was brilliant.
Geoff Barrow: What I loved about him was he didn't play it again because it became too popular. He loved it as a record, but he wouldn't play it because other deejays were playing it and he could play some other stuff that wasn't going to get any airplay.
Portishead's Dummy album was voted one of the Top 100 albums of the millennium voted in a British public survey carried out jointly by Channel 4 and The Guardian newspaper in the autumn of 1997, which was broadcast on Music Of The Millennium, presented by John Peel and Jo Whiley.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
* 1994 Festive Fifty: Sour Times #08
* 2008 Festive Fifty: The Rip #22
* 2008 Festive Fifty: Machine Gun #12
* 2016 Festive Fifty: SOS #07
== Live ==
* 27 June 1998: Live Performance at Glastonbury
== Other Shows Played ==
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*22 July 1994: Sour Times (unknown version) (CD single) Go!
*30 July 1994 (BFBS): Sour Times (unknown mix) (single) Go! Beat
*01 August 1994 (Ö3): 'Sour Times (12")' (Go! Discs)
*02 September 1994: Strangers (CD – Dummy) Go! Beat
*23 December 1994: 'Sour Times (CD-Dummy)' (Go! Beat) FF #08 (JP: 'Very partial to the guitar on that.')
;1996
*08 July 1996: Numb (Non-Peel session from October 1994)
;1997
*29 June 1997: Cowboys (single) Go! Beat
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
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