Portishead have shared a behind-the-scenes glimpse of their reunion efficiency for Collectively For Palestine – see beneath.
Earlier right this moment, it was introduced that the long-lasting trip-hop group had been added to the line-up of Brian Eno’s occasion at OVO Area Wembley on September 17, alongside the likes of Damon Albarn, Scorching Chip, Jamie xx, Sampha, Bastille and Paloma Religion.
Portishead have mentioned 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 monitor ‘Roads’ with a string quartet, which shall be aired throughout the night on the large screens.
Writing on Instagram on Wednesday (September 3), the band’s Geoff Barrow wrote: “Yesterday we went to the Good @cubemicroplex and filmed a stay 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 put up included pictures of the band on stage collectively – Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley – in addition to the string quartet. Verify them out right here:
The band have additionally shared a press release during which they are saying: “We’re extremely honoured to face in solidarity with Palestine and be a part of this important 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 will even be there, as will broadcasters Amelia Dimoldenberg and Louis Theroux and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos.
Yow will discover any remaining tickets to ‘Collectively For Palestine’ right here.
Portishead final performed stay in 2022 in a one-off present in Bristol for Struggle Youngster 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 mentioned. “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 frequently mentioning 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 yr after “almost 16 years of unhealthy language & random tempo choices”. He performed his remaining exhibits with the group earlier this yr, with the band planning to proceed with out him.
