On Thursday it was off to Brixton Academy to see Portishead - who have finally released their third album, 12 years after their last one!
We were upstairs (which meant we got to sit down) which was great (especially for my pregnant friend!). And they were really really good. The lead singer is apparently really shy - I had thought she was being a cool rock chick by standing with her back to the crowd for a long time when they first came on, but that wasn't the reason. She also has an amazing voice, but unlike Hollie Smith, the band didn't drown it out and it was just fantastic. Their new stuff worked well too I thought. This review is from their Manchester gig, but it could equally have been the one we saw.
It made sitting through the torturous support band worthwhile - some truly awful band playing what sounded like Eastern European gypsy music. And we were there for almost all of it - it was enough to drive a severely hung over person to drink!!
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