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Portishead haven’t released an album since Third in 2008, and before today they hadn’t performed in public since the 2015 Benicàssim Festival. But the band got back together in their hometown of Bristol tonight for a War Child UK benefit gig at 1,200-capacity O2 Academy Bristol, earning money for children affected by the war...

Portishead, British masters of sexy desolation, have not played a live show since they rocked Spain’s Benicàssim Festival back in 2015. (Portishead haven’t released any music in longer than that, but that’s a whole other story.) Next month, though, the group will return to the stage for a small benefit show in thei...

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