Portishead
Portishead live at Roskilde Festival in 2011. [1]
Beat label, 1994; released Portishead, 1997; released Live: Roseland NYC, Island Records, 1998; went on hiatus, 1999-2005; appeared together at a tsunami benefit concert, Bristol, England, 2005; released Third, Island Records, 2008. [2]
Portishead formed in 1991 and have completed their third studio album. [3]
Portishead may not have invented trip-hop, but they were among the first to popularize it, particularly in America. [4]
Adrian Utley, who co-produced the album with Portishead (and who played on 9 of the tracks and co-wrote 8), became an official band member shortly after the album’s release. [1]
In spite of the band’s media-shyness, the album gained universal critical acclaim and was successful on both sides of the Atlantic, spawning two hit singles, “Glory Box” and “Sour Times”. [5]
Portishead released a second album, Portishead, in 1997, then disappeared from sight for a baffling decade-long hiatus. [...] Band formed in Bristol, England, c. 1991; released first album, Dummy, on London Record’s Go! [2]
The band was formed in 1991 (Then later split in 2005 reforming in 2008), by keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons. [5]
In 2011 the band headlined and curated the line-up for two All Tomorrow’s Parties music festivals entitled I’ll Be Your Mirror. [1]
Members include Geoff Barrow (born c. 1972), keyboards; Beth Gibbons (born c. 1965), lead vocals; Adrian Utley (born c. 1958), guitar. [...] Awards: Mercury Music Prize, for Dummy, 1995. [2]
Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on Dummy and Portishead. [1]
“It’s amazing how quickly 10 years can go,” the band’s guitarist and keyboardist, Adrian Utley, told Jon Pareles of the New York Times. [2]
Portishead are a band from Bristol, United Kingdom, named after a small coastal town twelve miles west of said musical hotbed, in North Somerset. [5]
Sources:
[1] Portishead (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Portishead: Information from Answers.com
[3] Portishead | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos
[4] Portishead on Yahoo! Music
[5] Portishead - Last.fm