Portishead - Sour Times (Live at Bizarre Festival 1998) Uninterrupted and High Quality

Portishead, performing their classic 'Sour Times' in Germany, 1998. Extremely High Quality even though it doesn't trigger Youtube's 'HD' settings. This is a 1.6 gigabyte uncompressed AVI file.

In September 2010, I left my computer on for 6 days to download the 7gb torrent of the entire concert at 2kb/second. It was slow but worth it.

At the time the only other version of this performance on Youtube had audio problems during the climax, which was extremely annoying.

When I finished my torrent, I was equally annoyed to find that it too was missing the audio during the climax. Fortunately, I possessed the audio version of this performance (uninterrupted) and sony vegas. I spliced the two seamlessly together. Enjoy!

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Sour Times comes off Portishead's debut 1994 album, 'Dummy.'

"The album earned critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize beating stiff competition which included PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love, Oasis' Definitely Maybe, and Tricky's Maxinquaye. It is often credited with inventing the sub-genre of trip-hop and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s."

"Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States (where it sold more than 150,000 copies even before the band toured there)"

"On the two morosely startling albums that made Portishead's reputation when it came out of England in the 1990s, Beth Gibbons's voice and words were bereft and bitter, floating in music that placed vintage samples in sparse, echoey backdrops, conjuring emotional abysses and the irrevocable passage of time. The band itself was self-effacing, but word of mouth, from introvert to introvert, worked as much as radio play to cultivate devoted fans."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Portishead
• Sour
• Times
• Live
• Bizarre
• Festival
• 1998
• High
• Quality

[vasiabratchuk]

OMG THIS IS THE MOST FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE EVER!!! IT IS MAGIC. BLACK MAGIC.

[Joe22c]

@vasiabratchuk

Indeed, and I noticed you're a Muse fan too! Nice! Portishead and Muse are both tied for #1 in my heart. <3

Both Matt and Beth had a tendency to use simultaneous vibrato and falsetto to magical effect <3

[xnxnxmx]

OMFG!! You don't have Idea how this song means a lot to me. This performance was the one I meet Portishead's music, it was the first song and video I listened from Portishead, i remember that dark haunting magic, and since that day It become my dreams and nigthmares. And the audio problem was ALWAYS a bad thing but know, thanks to you Im able to reproduce my very first song and video from Portishead... thank you so much!!! and sorry I don't speak english well, THANKS againg... really ;D

[Joe22c]

@xnxnxmx

Hey! I'm so glad to hear that =)

Yeah, the audio interruption really bothered me a lot too; that's why I felt it was necessary to go and fix it. Thanks for watching :-)

[redskin133]

prefer the original version from the album

[adakasty]

When I hear this song from this live concert I can only give a gasp.

Takes me every time.

[csmsmith1]

Oh, please don't smoke and ruin this angelic voice :(

[M1D1Manson]

@Joe22c Also reminds me a bit of Jeff Buckley :D

[AshSaysNoThanks]

Goose bumps.

[dantebassz]

Clive Deamer on the drums!

[carloshopian]

GENIOS !!!

[xausspowa]

Great upload Joe - i love this 'other' version maybe even more than the original.