6 Music - Portishead plan '4th'

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Portishead working on 4th album, done touring for 3rd
Published 7/8/2008 by brooklynvegan at brooklynvegan
... ...The Bristol trio's last tour was a fairly short jaunt but Utley explained that they have family now, as well as different projects on the go which they want to work on: "We're all gonna be doing stuff. We've finished our touring for this album for this year because of things that we want to do." [BBC 6 Music] ...

Portishead Not Wasting Any Time [Upcoming Releases]
Published 7/9/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... that might not make the final cut for the album, but still, they're gunning to put out the album sometime before 10 years from now, which is a start. It almost makes up for the fact that their Third-supporting tour was so brief: "We are thinking a new album," Adrian Utley told the BBC. "That's partly why we're not touring enormously, because in 1998 we toured for a year and a bit and it just crashed us. None of us wanted to see each other for a while after that." Ah, growth. [BBC - 6Music] ...

Favourite Concerts of 2008
Published 8 days ago by Michael (noreply@blogger.com) at For the 'records'
... . It was that good. As Adrian Utley mentioned to the BBC back in July, they had no more plans for touring in 2008 and were focusing their efforts on preparing for a new album. As to what the status of the new recordings remains to be seen, but I can only cross my fingers that they'll bring their next tour jaunt to Toronto. ...