Portishead live in concert.
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Portishead

56
critic concert reviews
electronic

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

90
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56
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Portishead is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 1% of all live performers. Based on 56 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Portishead is rated as an amazing live performer, with exceptional shows that are worth watching. Portishead concert reviews describe live shows and performances as dramatic, entrancing, stunning, enjoyable, and atmospheric.

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Latest Release

Live 1998 Sour Times / Roads (29 May 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
electronic
Origin
Bristol, United Kingdom (1991 - present)
Bio
Portishead are a band from Bristol, United Kingdom, named after a small coastal town twelve miles west of said musical hotbed, in North Somerset. They were initially known for their use of jazz samples and some hip-hop beats along with various synth sounds and the hauntingly beautiful vocals of singer Beth Gibbons.
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Critic Concert Reviews

Consequence (USA)

May 3, 2022
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The charity concert marked Portishead's first live show in seven years.

musicOMH (UK)

May 2, 2022
100
%
Portishead have always danced to the beat of their own drum and their much-anticipated return after a seven-year hiatus was no different at the Bristol Academy. Trump, Brexit, Boris and covid have all dominated the headlines at one time or another since the enigmatic trio last took the stage at Benicàssim in 2015.

Hot Press Magazine (Ireland)

August 31, 2014
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The ground shakes…

The 13th Floor (New Zealand)

November 11, 2011
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Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand

Spectrum Culture (USA)

November 3, 2011
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Any band that disappears for more than a decade can do anything it damn pleases with its shadowy legacy.

Glide Magazine (USA)

October 31, 2011
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Portishead Live In Concert In the USA

The Orange County Register (USA)

October 19, 2011
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Orange County, USA

Past critic reviews published in

GetIntoThis (UK), The Bay Bridged (USA), The Waster (USA)

Image Credit

Bill Ebbesen [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons