Where did Portishead the band - meet exactly?!
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Where did Portishead the band - meet exactly?
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13 hours ago
Where exactly in Bristol? It was a government initiative for musicians but I need to know the exact name.
Answers: 13 hours ago
Where exactly in Bristol? It was a government initiative for musicians but I need to know the exact name. At the unemployment office in Bristol.
"Vocalist Beth Gibbons and keyboardist Geoff Barrow first met in a job-retraining program offered by the unemployment office in Bristol, England. Gibbons, who came from Devon, was a veteran of numerous local bands, and Barrow, who hailed from nearby Portishead, had already accumulated studio experience as a teenager, working on vocalist Neneh Cherry's Homebrew, producing a track for fellow Bristol artist Tricky, and remixing tracks for Primal Scream, Paul Weller, and Depeche Mode."
(From Rolling Stone magazine:
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/port...
"After Barrow had absorbed all he could at the Coach House, he began auditioning vocalists in an effort to realize his dream. He didn't have much luck at first; he had already given about fifty singers a hearing when he ran into Beth Gibbons at the local unemployment office in 1991. Gibbons had been singing in a number of different bands over the years, and most recently had been playing the Bristol pub circuit as the vocalist for a cover band. The two of them found that they shared similar musical ideals, and the former tea boy and the woman who'd been spending her evenings belting out Fleetwood Mac and Janis Joplin tunes now had the beginnings of their own band."
From:
http://www.edmspectrum.com/archives/2006... I think they're from Bristol.