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Portishead: new LP plans, touring to be stopped

by Mike Diver, pictures by Gary Wolstenholme [Edit this content] ▾ 7 comments 10:55 July 9th, 2008
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Portishead will not tour their latest album Third any further.

Guitarist Adrian Utley - pictured - told BBC 6Music: "We’ve finished our touring for this album for this year because of things that we want to do - to be at home with our children, very young children. I mean really, just babies - it is an important time and I don’t want to miss that."

The trio - completed by Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow (interviewed recently by DiS about his Invada label - profile coming soon) - will soon begin work on a fourth album, though. There was an 11-year gap between their second, Portishead, and this year's Third.

Continued Utley: “We are thinking a new album, that’s partly why we’re not touring enormously. In 1998 we toured for a year and a bit and it just crashed us. None of us wanted to see each other for a while after that.

“We got together the other night discussing stuff and getting a bit of a plan together.”

The band's latest single, 'The Rip', is out this week on Island.

Video: 'The Rip'

 

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... after that they can rest as long as they like.
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marfamac @cyberdemon | 9 Jul '08, 11:12 | X | Reply

i can understand that.

Being on the road away from family and those close to you, routinely playing similar (same?) sets every other night and living in the same people's pockets for a whole year?! I'd not want to see people for a while after that either; fair play to them.

medulla @meandthatarmy | 9 Jul '08, 11:13 | X | Reply

I thought their lack of touring was pretty much just down to Geoff?

I think it was in their Guardian interview recently where Adrian said he'd love to continue touring, but that it wasn't possible for "one reason or another"

Cue journalist approaching Geoff, he revealed that he "fucking hates touring and can't wait for it to end", or words to that effect

dove_from_above | 9 Jul '08, 11:43 | X | Reply

But lots of bands tour for well over that

then pretty much go straight back to making a new album.

meandthatarmy @medulla | 9 Jul '08, 12:57 | X | Reply

It's not as if you're Black Flag, is it?

GET IN THE VAN!

Alex-in-Ciderland | 9 Jul '08, 13:44 | X | Reply

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