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Portishead and Beak's Geoff Barrow

Portishead will start work on a new album this summer as Beak return with another album

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Portishead are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol. The band is named after the nearby town of the same name, 8 miles west of Bristol. Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on Dummy and Portishead.

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