Anyone going to see Portishead?
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Ecurie Ecosse said:
Thanks, man. 
How excellent was that? The new stuff sounds great (from what I heard- dont have Third yet)- a little harder than their first album, not so bleak as their second, and Beths voice is still so beautiful that she could have been singing nursery rhymes and you'd be happy. I thought she may have given up smoking, but on second thoughts decided it was probably just our smoking laws up here. I got right to the front as soon as I arrived, chained myself to the barrier & moved for noone- got some great scenes on my mobile, but I've lost everything except Glory Box.
I think I closed the shutter (this saves pictures you've taken. Obviously not video) so the files were never actually saved. Bummer, as I lost a great Roads, a killer new song that had Beth really turning it up, and numerous white noise solo's from Utley that bordered on sky cracking- he was usng lots of slide, a pedalboard of phase and short looping stuff which I couldnt see, and an Orange something or other. Apocalyptic at times. Feeds from set cameras placed on the drum kits, next to the pedalbard, ect and a roving camera focussed on Beth (the cameraman was in the way of my shots an annoying amount of the time) were projected onto the wall behind and interlaced with prerecorded animations and home video with that Portishead vibe, except for Mysterons, where Mysteron lights played over the walls and celing.
At the end, amid aural saturation, Beth came off the stage to greet all the fans who were pretty pumped at this point, and I was fifteen again & in love
. I shook her hand and yelled in her ear that it was so great to have them back, though I think the security guy thought I was trying to kiss her . And it was great- I cant believe its been nearly ten years! If you get a chance to see them, I'd do it (though I think theyre almost out of dates). I'm so glad they did such a good job, I'd went with a real fear that they'd be going through the motions just to pull in £30 a ticket. I neednt have worried- it could have been longer, and took a while to get going, but all in all I wouldnt have swapped it for any other £30 in the world.
Sadly all my vids were lost except for this one with everyone singing over it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWLnyicLPOM
There are much (much!) better vids out there from the other gigs, though. So who else went?
I think I closed the shutter (this saves pictures you've taken. Obviously not video) so the files were never actually saved. Bummer, as I lost a great Roads, a killer new song that had Beth really turning it up, and numerous white noise solo's from Utley that bordered on sky cracking- he was usng lots of slide, a pedalboard of phase and short looping stuff which I couldnt see, and an Orange something or other. Apocalyptic at times. Feeds from set cameras placed on the drum kits, next to the pedalbard, ect and a roving camera focussed on Beth (the cameraman was in the way of my shots an annoying amount of the time) were projected onto the wall behind and interlaced with prerecorded animations and home video with that Portishead vibe, except for Mysterons, where Mysteron lights played over the walls and celing.
At the end, amid aural saturation, Beth came off the stage to greet all the fans who were pretty pumped at this point, and I was fifteen again & in love
. I shook her hand and yelled in her ear that it was so great to have them back, though I think the security guy thought I was trying to kiss her . And it was great- I cant believe its been nearly ten years! If you get a chance to see them, I'd do it (though I think theyre almost out of dates). I'm so glad they did such a good job, I'd went with a real fear that they'd be going through the motions just to pull in £30 a ticket. I neednt have worried- it could have been longer, and took a while to get going, but all in all I wouldnt have swapped it for any other £30 in the world.Sadly all my vids were lost except for this one with everyone singing over it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWLnyicLPOM
There are much (much!) better vids out there from the other gigs, though. So who else went?
Fittster said:
I'm currently watching a recording of a show on Current TV and to say it's terrible is an understatement. Lo-fi electronica of the worst kind, the worst come back I've heard for a long time.
Really? I havent heard Third yet, but Machine Gun and Threads certainly sounded pretty awesome live, even discounting the adrenaline rush of being blown to bits by the PA system. Be a real shame if its not at least halfway awesome.Edited by glazbagun on Monday 14th April 22:42
glazbagun said:
Fittster said:
I'm currently watching a recording of a show on Current TV and to say it's terrible is an understatement. Lo-fi electronica of the worst kind, the worst come back I've heard for a long time.
Really? I havent heard Third yet, but Machine Gun and Threads certainly sounded pretty awesome live, even discounting the adrenaline rush of being blown to bits by the PA system. Be a real shame if its not at least halfway awesome.Edited by glazbagun on Monday 14th April 22:42
AL600-or-so said:
Did anyone else get on of those little chips (memory cards?) before the gig that they were handing out? Still not sure what I'm supposed to do with it and didn't want to try it in a memory card reader in case it broke it...
Its a USB strage device- shove it into a USB socket (gold side up). All it has is a 43 second mishmash. Pretty dissappointing- I'd rather it had a rough MP3 of an earlier gig or a thousand other things. Still, it holds 28MB... might be of some use if it can be formatted. 
Edited by glazbagun on Tuesday 15th April 23:23
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