Portishead struggle with new songs
Portishead Geoff revealed that the English three-piece – which also includes guitarist Adrian Utley and singer Beth Gibbons – struggle writing new songs as they are not in any way a “traditional” band.
The 39-year-old said that making music “generally is hell because we’re not a band in the traditional sense – our musical set-up and history are really odd”.
While the three members of the Bristol-based group enjoy very different music tastes, Adrian pointed out that he has at all times been capable of talking to Geoff about creativeness.
The 54-year-old spoke with British newspaper The Observer about their collaborative work, saying that “Geoff has always been one of the few people I talk to creatively in a certain way”.
Adrian added that the pair “vibed on each other” when they first met, “even though there was an age difference and musical difference, and that hasn’t really gone”.
He continued by saying that “Portishead is a world where I know exactly what’s going on, and somehow it’s almost like it’s the real world and everything else is playtime”.
Meanwhile, Portishead – whose last album, Third, came out in April of 2008 – are poised to perform at and curate the I’ll Be Your Mirror festival at Alexandra Palace in London on July 23 and 24.
