Neat and all, but I'd be even happier if they flirted with the experiment of actually touring a new album, rather than serving as trip-hop's answer to Roger Waters, touring forever on the same 12 songs.

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bigiain 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

While I agree, in that I'd love a new album.

God damn those are 12 great songs!

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tptacek 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd say the same thing but I saw them on the Mezzanine nostalgia tour in Chicago, which was very expensive, and it was... not one of the best shows I've seen. I'd seen them a couple times prior and they were fine (I was both times surprised by the guest vocalists they'd managed to drag along on those tours). The Mezzanine tour though was like Spinal Tap's appearance on the Simpsons; "there will be no encore!".

	▲	wisemang 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I thoroughly enjoyed their Toronto show on that tour. To be fair it was the first time I’d seen them in concert so I didn’t have any points of comparison. I also hadn’t really clued in to just how political they were until seeing their visuals, which I also thought added a lot. Surely not everyone’s cup of tea though.

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alkonaut 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love the Spotify era where artists actually want, and some times need, to go on tour again. And while some artists might be capable of producing new good music, the sad fact is that the music we enjoy most was the one from our youth. So if bands from 20 or 30 years ago tour now, I always pray they haven't made anything new. Also, in the old days when bands made money from records not tours, the tour was usually "album promo" and you could some times tell the band was forced by the record company to do it to begin with.

The best concerts are breakthrough concerts for new bands (first or second album), and then the greatest-hits type concerts that are 10 years after the last album. Every concert that is a tour with album 3-4-5 is usually pretty meh.

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sk5t 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll put my hoping energy into a new Portishead album instead.

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tptacek 14 hours ago | parent [-]

She's a solo artist now, right?

	▲	sk5t 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		New band albums are rumored and hinted-at, from time to time, by Geoff Barrow, though it seems hard to say if there will be another. Bear in mind Beth made "Out of Season" apart from Portishead several years before the release of "Third." I wouldn't think her recent solo work indicates a split.

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Loughla 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You watch your dirty mouth. They're amazing and you know it.

But yes. They do need new material dammit.

	▲	alexey-salmin 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		[Not the OP] Massive Attack is (was?) amazing but their live shows aren't. I attended one in Paris this year. Not only it was exactly the same show as few years ago including the decorations and the scrolling text wall but the sound was horrible. I couldn't hear anything. I would be better off if I just stayed home and listened to the recording.

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jsbisviewtiful 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Massive Attack has 7 albums, so what are you talking about?

	▲	tptacek 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's been 15 years since their last original LP and over 20 years since the last album anyone really cared about (Google their setlists --- they play more covers than they do tracks from their last LP).