I'm hoping they come to New York. They are rumored to be playing Coachella.

So... they finally burned through all the money they made off the first two albums?

After that execrable live CD (clapping along to the songs?!), I'm hoping this new album is good. And Beth's solo CD back in 2002 was rubbish. There, I said it.

Can't wait.

I didn't really like her solo album either, but the live CD/DVD was amazing.

My only concern is that so many years after the last record that they may end up sounding dated. I still listen to the records, and it's not just for nostalgia, it's because it's aural sex. For what it's worth, Beth's album with Rustin Mann shouldn't be considered as part of the Portishead oeuvre.

/golf clap for headline

SuburbanCowboy: I'm hoping they come to New York. They are rumored to be playing Coachella.

Nice large HOLE in their tour schedule near the end of April...I'd say they're a lock.

I've been going to Coachella since it started in '99 and I've been begging Goldenvoice to get 'em the entire time...

Yay for Portishead!

Now all we need is for:
1. Pixies to make a new album
2. My Bloody Valentine to reunite/make new album
3. Massive Attack (original members) to get it together
4. Some other random group to reunite
5. Obscure singer to come out of retirement

And I'll be happy

RobThomas PowerHour: My Bloody Valentine to reunite/make new album


you know this is happening, right...?



Don't know about Massive Attack, but I do know a new album is due... well, sometime this year... maybe?

You know, I was just on a long roadtrip listening to the first two PH albums thinking, "Man, it's been like 12 years since they did anything useful. Where's their new material?".

And lo, Fark doth bringeth me these good tidings. Echoing similar thoughts, I hope this record is as sexily depressing as their last record.

//Just by referring to them as records, you know to stay off my lawn//

RobThomas PowerHour: Yay for Portishead!

Now all we need is for:
1. Pixies to make a new album
2. My Bloody Valentine to reunite/make new album
3. Massive Attack (original members) to get it together
4. Some other random group to reunite
5. Obscure singer to come out of retirement

And I'll be happy

It's like you can see right into my mind...
Creepy.

RobThomas PowerHour: Now all we need is for:

2. My Bloody Valentine to reunite/make new album

NME says they're doing this (new window).

That is so incredibly awesome! I discovered them a few years ago (yeah, I'm always late to the game) and totally fell in love. It feels like I've been waiting for new material (Beth's solo co-project doesn't count. It sucked.) for eons, and I've almost given up hope. This announcement makes me so happy.

Their albums were awesome (and I liked the live one too). I have some very low quality mp3s of the new songs that have been played live, but I'd need to listen again to get any idea of what to expect, I kinda forgot I had them. I hope they have something new and interesting and not just a Smashing Pumpkins style return, but we'll see.

While the Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man album was nothing like Portishead, I enjoyed it. Very mellow with some cool sounds. I saw them live on that tour and it was pretty awesome to see some of those songs performed with eight or nine people and guitars, upright bass, drums, mandolins, and all kinds of stuff going on.

/Alexi Murdoch opened for that show before he got big on all those soundtracks

I'll believe there's a new album when I have the disc in hand - I've read too many articles like this every 'effin year since '98.

"New Portishead album in 1999 - erm, 2000, no!! 2001 this time, we sear!! LOLCOPER, JK, 2002, realllllly... "

here's a tip for all the men out there

play glory box for your woman,
100% panty dropper

Azz: here's a tip for all the men out there

play glory box for your woman,
100% panty dropper

I vouch for that.

SJKebab: Azz: here's a tip for all the men out there

play glory box for your woman,
100% panty dropper

I vouch for that.

THIS. Hooverphonic also batted 1.000.

Years of frustration lay down side by side

And it's oooooonly you, who can tear me apart
And it's oooooonly you, who can tear my wooden heart

/+1000 to headline

mistervague: SJKebab: Azz: here's a tip for all the men out there

play glory box for your woman,
100% panty dropper

I vouch for that.

THIS. Hooverphonic also batted 1.000.

...which is to say I don't play the album much anymore. There are others.

/dammit

I heard rumors that MBV were getting back together. And if so, sheeit yes i love it. One down, four to go.

puppy chunks: I'll believe there's a new album when I have the disc in hand - I've read too many articles like this every 'effin year since '98.

"New Portishead album in 1999 - erm, 2000, no!! 2001 this time, we sear!! LOLCOPER, JK, 2002, realllllly... "

They've already performed new material at ATP. And they're touring...which usually means a new product to support.

Travis McGee: So...Beth's solo CD back in 2002 was rubbish. There, I said it.Travis McGee:



//that

Well it's about damn time. I hope it lives up to Dummy.

Scrotastic Method: puppy chunks: I'll believe there's a new album when I have the disc in hand - I've read too many articles like this every 'effin year since '98.

"New Portishead album in 1999 - erm, 2000, no!! 2001 this time, we sear!! LOLCOPER, JK, 2002, realllllly... "

They've already performed new material at ATP. And they're touring...which usually means a new product to support.

sounds a lot like the pixies. new songs, numerous tours, promises of a new album.......then nothing for years now.

/just sayin'

Portishead was confirmed for Coachella this afternoon...

...along with Roger Waters (performing Dark Side of the Moon)...Aesop Rock...etc...

If it doesn't sound like an updated Dummy, they should take their toys and go home.


/Likes me some Sneaker Pimps and Cocteau Twins as well

oh thank god. I've been hoping for a new album from them for years. Beth Gibbons has one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard, she is one of the most emotionally powerful singers out there. Portishead's music is so sorrowful and depressing, but there is just so much beauty in it that it always makes me feel better when I listen to it.

Archie Godwin: kick ass. time to baggie up grams of hydro at 75 dollars a gram.

Only a moron would pay that much. Even in the sticks it's only 20 per.

Pedestal is an amazing farking song. I'm looking forward to hearing new things from Portishead.

"Well, it's about time!!!"

I was happy about this, but then I heard the samples of their new material. Unless it sounds drastically different when recorded, I want nothing to do with new Portishead.

farked already...

Will it be released the same week as Chinese Democracy?

For my dreamy female vocalist fix, I'll stick with Mazzy Star, thank you.

SubBass49: Portishead was confirmed for Coachella this afternoon...

...along with Roger Waters (performing Dark Side of the Moon)...Aesop Rock...etc...

/glee.
//starts gathering funds to make it.

Scrotastic Method: puppy chunks: I'll believe there's a new album when I have the disc in hand - I've read too many articles like this every 'effin year since '98.

"New Portishead album in 1999 - erm, 2000, no!! 2001 this time, we sear!! LOLCOPER, JK, 2002, realllllly... "

They've already performed new material at ATP. And they're touring...which usually means a new product to support.

There's about 2 years worth of posts on their myspace from their drunken guitarist that detail the recording and production process. He's also dislexic and many of the posts were near incoherent -- pretty funny.

Any way it's real, now the question is, will it be any good? Basically they going to have to write really good songs and not just rely on their 'sound' to carry them since their 'sound' is now public domain.

!!!
I need this to happen over here in the states!!
I AM GOING TO EXPLODE IF IT DOESN'T.
I have never seen them and I've always wanted to.
New Portishead!! Oh boy!! So excited!!!

*bounce*

puppy chunks: I'll believe there's a new album when I have the disc in hand - I've read too many articles like this every 'effin year since '98.

"New Portishead album in 1999 - erm, 2000, no!! 2001 this time, we sear!! LOLCOPER, JK, 2002, realllllly... "

Spoken like a wise farker. I to shall not let my hopes get up.

I saw Portishead in Austin in 1998. Wow. She really sounds like that live. I also dropped many a panty to their music so yes, it works, fellas... but only if you're hot.

/sorry ugly dudes ;-)