Portishead's Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow have picked a number of their favourite YouTube clips. And below is a youtube clip of them talking about some of their favorite clips.


you can view them all here, highlights for me include Miles Davis and John Coltrane,Sonic Youth Sugar Kane live,Kling Klang - "Heavydale",duracell - Space Harrier + Turrican,Om Live in Seattle ,Madvillain - Accordion,Charlie Brooker on My Sweet 16 ,Mark Kermode's review of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and loads more , really worth checking out

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This weeks Hangover mix comes from Birmingham 4 piece Blakfish. I was lucky enough to catch them in Eammon Dorans a few months back and was totally blown away by them and how tight they are, they will be back on theses shores in August (dates in the read more)
(tracklisting and download link in the read more)


Tracklisting
01 Sawdust and Diamonds - Joanna Newsom
02 Let go - Frou Frou
03 Playing Possom for a Peek - Owen
04 Love Gun - KISS
05 Moses I Amn't - Mogwai
06 Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
07 Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd
08 Feathers and Fur - No Knife
09 Roads - Portishead
10 Here come the Sirens - On the Might of Princes

click here to go to download page

As i said Blakfish will be playing ireland in August dates are as follows

21 Aug 2008 Eamonn Doran’s W/Tubelord Dublin,
22 Aug 2008 TBC W/Tubelord
23 Aug 2008 The Whiskey W/Tubelord Cork
24 Aug 2008 tbc W/Tubelord + We Are Knives Londonderry, Northern Ireland
25 Aug 2008 tbc W/Tubelord + We Are Knives Belfast, Northern Ireland
(if you think you can help them out with either of the TBC dates contact them on there myspace)

They have also just released "See You In Another City" their first on Big Scary Monsters. It is a lovely 5 track mini-album you can buy it here

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This weekend curer in the form of a mixtape comes from Marvins Revolt's Klaus. Marvins Revolt is a three-piece out of Copenhagen, Denmark (who mutate into a four-piece live) making angular and catchy tunes. Touched by sounds from the present and the past, but forging their own path, regardless of scenes or trends. The songs appear as intense, challenging and melodic structures, with disregard for songwriting rules.



tracklist
1. Low – Murderer
2. Clouddead - Dead Dogs two
3. Portishead – Machine Gun
4. American Analog Set - Born On The Cusp
5. Mother Sparrow – Bathe
6. Minus The Bear - Burying Luck
7. Radio Dept. - Worst Taste In Music
8. Pinback - Hurley
9. Why? – Gemini
10. 13 + God - Men of Station

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Marvins Revolt - Deliberate Deeds


Marvins Revolt are currently writing their new album, a follow up to "Killec" released on Popular Records

Marvins Revolt myspace

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The hangover mix this weekend to get you through the bank holiday weekend comes from the record collection of Menomena , i saw Menomena a while back in the sugar club and what a show they put on i was completely blow away.
In case you dont know who Menomena are, Menomena are an experimental rock band from Portland, Oregon, made up of Brent Knopf on guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel; Justin Harris on bass, guitar, baritone sax and alto sax; and Danny Seim on percussion. All members of the band share singing duties.

tracklisting and all the other stuff in the read more

Tracklisting

1. The Good, The Bad, and the Queen - "Herculean"
2. J Dilla - "Workinonit"
3. The Ruby Suns - "Ole Rinka"
4. Santogold - "Lights Out"
5. The Helio Sequence - "The Captive Mind"
6. Portishead - "The Rip"
7. Yeasayer - "Germs"
8. El Guincho - "Antillas"
9. Roxy Music - "Amazona"
10. Quinn Walker - "Chicken Wire"

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Now some Menomena videos first two are live vids recorded in Juan's Basement for Plum TV in Brooklyn, NY.

Menomena - Weird


Menomena - Muscle'n Flo


Menomena - "Evil Bee"


i would really recommend the album Friend and Foe by Menomena to people , it has some amazing tracks on it and one of the most original and inventive cover i have ever seen

Menomena myspace page

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This is 'The Rip':

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Check out the video for the new Portishead single- Machine Gun, here.

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its been 10 years but its finally here (well nearly)

Portishead new album third is out April 28
track listing
01 Silence
02 Hunter
03 Nylon Smile
04 The Rip
05 Plastic
06 We Carry On
07 Deep Water
08 Machine Gun
09 Small
10 Magic Doors
11 Threads

below is a video of them playing a song off the new album at there atp last December

Portishead - Machine Gun

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Unfortunately Ireland does not feature on the list of countries Portishead will hit on their newly announced European tour. So a few cheapo Ryanair flights may be on the cards..

Here are the dates in full:

Oporto Coliseum (March 26)
Lisbon Coliseum (27)
Milan Alcatraz (30)
Florence Sashall (31)
Munich Tonhalle (April 2)
Berlin Columbiahalle (3)
Copenhagen KB Hallen (4)
Cologne Palladium (6)
Amsterdam HMH (7)
Manchester Apollo (9)
London Hammersmith Apollo (10)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (12)
Wolverhampton Civic Hall (13)
Paris Zenith (May 5, 6)
Brussels Forest National (8)

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Trip-hop legends Portishead are getting back in gigging form with a Bristol show on December 15th. A long awaited new album is due to finally arrive soon, and the band's profile is being firmly re-raised with their curating the All Tomorrows Parties 'Nightmare Before Christmas' event next weekend in Butlins, Minehead (in Wales, as googlemaps helpfully informed me).

The band have handpicked the lineup & will perform live themselves in what's just another example of why the ATP crew are probably the best promoters in the world. Here's a sample of the lineup: Portishead, Aphex Twin, Sparklehorse, Malcolm Middleton, Black Mountain, Thurston Moore. This list goes on. And on. Check it out here.

Other ATP gigs lined up are pant-crappingly exciting. Here's their 'ATP vs Pitchfork' lineup, featuring Sebadoh!! Click.

Here's the Explosions In The Sky curated event. Click.

And here's one of their 'Don't Look Back' shows, where artists play classic albums in their entirety. The first one for 08 is a band I not three sentences ago awarded a double exclamation mark. Yes, Sebadoh performing 1993's 'Bubble & Scrape'. Here's hoping Lou Barlow & Co will grant us an audience over on this side of the Irish sea before long.

Here's Portishead performing 'Roads' amazingly, from their live in New York DVD:

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From NME:

Portishead's Geoff Barrow has announced that the band is one day away from completing their third full-length album.

In a posting today (October 23) on the band's website, Barrow wrote that the band have been in London finishing up the long-awaited follow-up to their 1997 self-titled album.

"I think one more day messing about with it and it will be done. Then into the wonderful world of mastering," he wrote.

Barrow added that the band are now "working on some artwork and getting the live stuff together".


Hopefully this will mean more excellence along these lines:

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