Beth Gibbons
- Music
- Sitting
5.30PM and 8.30PM
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Portishead’s Beth Gibbons brings her solo debut and select career classics to RISING in a lush and shadowy live show at Hamer Hall.
“No one sings like her. Bewitching is an understatement… This mix of beauty and brutality is captivating.”
Beth Gibbons doesn’t rush. Portishead’s first records gave music a new aura. Something that glows in those yearning after-hours like a smoke-kissed lampshade. Then, 22 years ago, she released Out of Season—her sublime collaboration with Talk Talk’s Paul Webb. Since then, she’s lent her aching, singular voice to precisely one track with Kendrick Lamar and one track with MF Doom. She’s composed a few film scores and performed with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. She's gone deep into psychedelic dissonance with Portishead's Third. And, for the last decade or so, she’s tinkered with one gorgeous piece of witchcraft—LIVES OUTGROWN, her 2024 solo debut. For one night only she’ll fill Hamer Hall with her new music and treat us to some select career classics.
This new set sees the icon conjure a dark canopy of sound. She sings of mortality and love over finger-picked guitars and smouldering percussion. A musical saw cuts through a patch of pastoral folk. Gentle flutes and woodwinds tickle the edges. Violins fiddle and squall. Arabic rhythms encircle. A children’s choir bursts through like a sunlit glade.
No need to rush. Let it all wrap you up and draw you close.
“If we don’t stop now, will we go too far?”