Saturday, April 26, 2008

Portishead's Private LA Rehearsal

I've noticed that some people who attended Portishead's private rehearsal in LA 2 days ago (K-Rock and the LA Times did some sweepstakes and allowed a certain number of people to attend) posted a number of videos on Youtube.

People have been asking me if I could post my videos ... but sorry, I won't.
I also took the portraits I took of them down for now as well and will keep you posted when they are published.
And they are not the usual Portishead photos you would expect. ; )

Their Coachella show was last night and there will be plenty of videos floating around.
Keep in mind that having been invited to a rehearsal is kinda awesome and the K-Rock guests have already posted a bunch, not mentioning last nights Coachella show.

As of right now, the Coachella show was their only public US appearance and no further shows are planned anytime in the near future.

When I met them I asked them what it's like to play shows, deal with the massive media interest etc since they are not the most social people. Interviews have always been very limited (Beth only participated in one interview in 14 years and that was only by accident) and shoots happen close to never .... and they said to me:

"This whole Rock 'n Roll thing.... that's just not who we are."

There are a number of articles on the rehearsal since relevant press was in attendance , and The Fader wrote this article with an attached Youtube clip.

This LA Times Interview is also very insightful for those wanting to get a glimpse of what they have to say once they speak up.

Here's one of my clips from the show - witnessing an amazing moment in music history.

The song on the clip is "Christine" by Siouxsie And The Banshees.



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