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Portishead slag Radiohead

Portishead's Geoff Barrow has launched a missive in the direction of Radiohead.

The spout, encased within a 'blog posting titled ‘Amy gets caught sober… or some other shit news’, starts as an attack and ends up defending that attack.

En garde:

“So then.......music for free is it? well fuking great. so if you get our album for nothing or very little , does that mean i can get my boiler fixed for free...

 
 
--i could tell the plumber that its all for the love of sharing and its to combat the evil money grabbing corperation that is zanussi. ...............im sure he will understand.

"also im not having a pop at radiohead they are fuking good and clever with it. anyways im sure it will all become clear at some point.”

Portishead curate the next ATP event at Minehead in December.

His typos are worse than mine and I come from a line of failed bands

what's HIS excuse - the 2nd Portishead album??!?

That's a little hyperbolic

All Geoff has done is spilt some shit on a page.

The grammar's not there and neither's the spelling

but the point's a fair one.

unexpected.

i love both bands though.

it was free

I didn't pay a thing

"Portishead slag Radiohead"

"also im not having a pop at radiohead they are fuking good and clever with it. anyways im sure it will all become clear at some point.”
Slightly misleading headline?

free

of tunes, you mean!

im sure it wasnt anything to do with her

more the shops competing for the market share of the book, and hoping that people buy other things when they come into the shop, thus covering the loss they made on the book.

its cos it came with the mail

you cant do good through evil means

not exactly a slagging off

he makes a fair point in a drunken way and compliments them

The thing with the Prince album

was that he actually got paid almost £1 million by the Daily Mail for the privelige. Given that his albums don't sell fuck all these days it was fairly irritating seeing him being lauded in some places as 'giving his music away'.

you media cunts.

always making a mountain out of a molehill.

what's next? the lemonheads and machinehead slag off portishead's radiohead jibe.

And by having to buy the Mail

you effectively had to sell your soul if you wanted the album. Luckily I didn't.

Perhaps they should...

...stop being such lazy bastards and get a record out.

I live in Bristol. Where its two best known acts rarely bother to put a record out. The whole laid-back culture pervades Bristol like a virus. It needs more rock and roll, badly.

bloke in the pic

has got boy boobs

Since when did buying the Mail On Sunday

count as "selling your soul"?

since forever.

or at least since they supported fascism in the 1930s

Well they've shat on my parade

I was going to MP3 only releases free of charge for my band as we were of the opinion that we didn't care about making records, we started playing to bloody play, and hope that people would have a good night out.

Radiohead have just strolled in there with there big gorky eyed size nines and beat me to the punch.

Still I am sure the same dick heads that spend 70 quid on Australian 1st run red vinyl editions of Nirvana's bleach will be quite happily coughing up the ludicrous 40 squid for some shite box set of the album when it is released, and that should easily cover the cost of the record which was made with no overheads because like any sensible fucker they have their own studio.

Honestly, it has all been done before. And done better, Shellac 1,000 Hurts, if you bought the box set vinyl you also got the CD with it.

All Foo Fighter albums are touted around labels for distro and recorded etc off Dave Grohls own back as are many many other artists...wait I forgot what I was talking about, was this about Britney's new video? man her ass looks fat!

he really

does need to get his arse in gear.

...

Multiple wrong:

1) He is obviously having a pop at Radiohead, even if he claims he isn't.

2) Music is not free. Radiohead's new album however, is. That doesn't affect the business of any other band.

fired

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