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Portishead concert film returns to the big screen
Originally released in 1998 to complement the album of the same title, Portishead – Roseland NYC Live comes back to the big screen at the Watershed for two screenings on April 26. Featuring tracks from the Bristol trip-hoppers’ debut album Dummy and its follow-up Portishead, played by the band and a 30 piece orchestra, the concert film was shot in the Roseland Ballroom, New York City.
The Watershed’s screenings accompany the release on the same day of a newly remastered and expanded 25th anniversary version of the original album on CD and as a double LP set on red vinyl with a gatefold sleeve.
The vinyl edition of the remastered album
Both screenings will be introduced by Portishead’s Adrian Utley who oversaw the full production of the reissue. “I’ve always held the memory of this show which we played before our second album was released,” he says. “This was the first time an audience had heard the new tunes and it was put together to launch that album. Great care was taken over the orchestrations and look of the filming. It preceded a year long world tour for us, recorded and filmed in the legendary Roseland Ballroom in New York, which unfortunately doesn’t exist any more. This reissue has three tracks that were not released before and we’ve remastered all of them.”
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