Neat and all, but I'd be even happier if they flirted with the experiment of actually touring a new album, rather than serving as trip-hop's answer to Roger Waters, touring forever on the same 12 songs.
God damn those are 12 great songs!
I also hadn’t really clued in to just how political they were until seeing their visuals, which I also thought added a lot. Surely not everyone’s cup of tea though.
Bear in mind Beth made "Out of Season" apart from Portishead several years before the release of "Third." I wouldn't think her recent solo work indicates a split.
But yes. They do need new material dammit.
I attended one in Paris this year. Not only it was exactly the same show as few years ago including the decorations and the scrolling text wall but the sound was horrible. I couldn't hear anything.
I would be better off if I just stayed home and listened to the recording.
The best concerts are breakthrough concerts for new bands (first or second album), and then the greatest-hits type concerts that are 10 years after the last album. Every concert that is a tour with album 3-4-5 is usually pretty meh.