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     Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24 |
I just got tickets for a friday show here in Copenhagen for Portishead. The show was sold out, but a friend of mine had an extra ticket. I thought their album Dummy was powerful, also melancholic and quite beautiful and original when it came out in the mid nineties. I saw them once previously at the Roskilde festival (I can't remember how long ago) So fun to see them this Friday after all these years. I have not heard their new album, just the single. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.151.135.41 |
Hope you enjoy, Karim. Beth Gibbons is a bleak, haunted, mesmerising vocalist. I wasn't surprised when she recorded a folk-tinged acoustic album a few years ago. She has a voice to die for... and more issues than a collector of Weird Tales. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
"Dummy" is an absolutely magnificent album. Hope you enjoy the gig, Karim. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24 |
Thanks Zed. Yes she does have an amazing voice. I remember it being just as powerful live. I have been hearing Dummy today to revisit the sound. Lots of memories from the mid nineties flood back... The other album she did was also really good, but I am even more excited to hear her with Portishead. Chris Cunningham also did probably his best video for them, the very dark and disturbing video of the suspended boy in the invisible water in the back alley of a city who sees the figure in the window... Beautiful video that was. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I'm going to see them at Manchester Apollo next week but I don't have to pay to get in. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.182.23 |
I envy you, Karim! Hope you enjoy it. I thought the second album was excellent too. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.242.238 |
I much prefer their first album over their second - unfortunately I couldn't get tickets to see them, so I'll have to wait to see the reviews here! Chris Cunningham also did probably his best video for them... Well yes, the video for ONLY YOU is excellent, but I've yet to see anything of Cunningham's that betters RUBBER JOHNNY imo... | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24 |
Mick: Rubber Johnny was alot of fun but I do not think it is his best at all despite some quite amazing moments in it, some beautiful effects work, and a great sense of humour. I think it is his weakest edited piece actually, despite all the pyrotechnics. I think stuff like Flex and his earlier Aphex work, and stuff he did for Squarepusher and Bjork is his strongest work. He also did comics work for 2000Ad, design work on Alien 3 and on Clive Barker's Nightbreed and for Stanley Kubrik's version of AI... Now we are just waiting for a feature film from him... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.242.238 |
Is he planning one, do you know? Although I've seen a fair bit of his stuff I only have that "The Work Of..." DVD so I've not seen it all... | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.97.200.24 |
I think he had some projects with english film companies, but this has been years and years I think and I'm not seeing any new features announced. Hope he does. He's really talented. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
They played an excellent show tonight in Copenhagen. Weber don't miss the Manchester show! She actually sang better live than on the record, or, it was even more powerful live with a full band this time around. Their visuals were very effective- black and white live surveilance images from the actual stage- The ONLY YOU clip also played in full, and they played an amazing stripped down version of Wandering Star. Probably the best show I've seen this past year. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.181.98 |
Glad you enjoyed it, Kharim. I'd love to see them live. Can't wait to hear THIRD. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Saw Nightwish last night and was very impressed. I don't think the woman singer they've got now is as good as the one they had last time I saw them but it was still a damned fine show. Going to see Austrailian pink Floyd tomorrow night. If they're still as good as they were last time I saw them it should be a good night. Then Portishead on wednesday. Busy week for me this week. |