PNYC: Portishead - Roseland New York (Video 1998)

Portishead concert in the Roseland Ballroom, New York City, on the 24th July 1997 with tracks from the albums "Dummy" and "Portishead" played by the band and a 30 piece orchestra.

Director:

Dick Carruthers

Stars:

Portishead, Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons

Cast

Credited cast:
Portishead	...	Themselves
Geoff Barrow	...	Himself - Portishead
Beth Gibbons	...	Herself - Portishead
Adrian Utley	...	Himself - Portishead
Dave MacDonald	...	Himself - Portishead
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Baggott	...	Himself (keyboards)
Alfred Brown	...	Himself (viola)
Harold Coletta	...	Himself (viola)
Clive Deamer	...	Himself (drums)
David Finck	...	Himself (bass)
Susan Follari	...	Herself (viola)
Will Gregory	...	Himself (oboe, baritone saxophone)
Joyce Hammann	...	Herself (violin)
Nick Ingman	...	Himself (conductor, bass)
Suzie Katayama	...	Herself (cello)

Storyline

Portishead concert in the Roseland Ballroom, New York City, on the 24th July 1997 with tracks from the albums "Dummy" and "Portishead" played by the band and a 30 piece orchestra.

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Plot Keywords:

concert film | independent film

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Genres:

Documentary | Music

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Site of Portishead

Country:

USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 November 1998 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Roseland Ballroom - 239 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lemmon Films, Portishead

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

User Reviews

No one sentence can summarize its brilliance.

I am a Portishead freak. I doubt you would have come to this particular corner of the IMDb if you weren't either. If you have seen this tape, I'm winking as I type. If you haven't, make all the necessary, desperate attempts you can manage to make in your new life mission to get it. Beth Gibbons is like a New Age Shirley Bassey, squeezing all the OOMPH! she can out of every lyric and hissing it into the mic, she prowls Roseland with her intensity. Geoff Barrow, Adrian Utley, and Dave McDonald assist Miss Gibbons in her quest to touch souls with dead on choices. No song from either of their first two albums sound as good as they do when performed on PNYC. When assembled as one, the songs are musical paintings of relationship despair, like Beth's tragic torch songs to the boyfriend that failed to keep her. Every artistic motive is made to compensate from making a simple one shot of the band doing their thang, but in actuality, when you're dealing with what I consider (for my money) to be the greatest album of all time, all you need is a camera, an audience, and a couple of geniuses who call themselves Portishead.