Beak> drummer Geoff Barrow (who also runs Invada Records and co-founded Portishead) has announced that he will be retiring from the group following their tours in UK/Europe this fall and the US in the ...

A chat with Geoff Barrow – one third of Portishead and all-round creative dabbler – is never less than entertaining. Ask him a question and he’ll tell you what he thinks. Honestly. He’s on the other ...

Users online chimed in to encourage Barrow to take legal action. “Dude, you need to sue the f*cker,” wrote one user. Dude, you need to sue the f*cker. “Jeezus, that’s not even sampling, they just used ...

Last year, Geoff Barrow announced that he was leaving Beak>, the experimental, adventurous rock band he formed in the mid-00s, to make a feature film. Now that film, which Barrow has co-written and co ...

On August 22, 1994, the album that would make Portishead a name in music was released to the world. “Dummy,” a moody, brooding mix of songs using hip-hop techniques like sampling, announced the ...

Geoff Barrow of Portishead and Beak> also runs the record label Invada that releases a lot of film and TV scores, some of which are composed by him (and collaborator Ben Salisbury). Invada has just ...

Geoff Barrow is still best-known as one third of Portishead, the Bristol trip-hop originators who released three classic albums and who have been almost entirely inactive for a very long time. In ...

We last heard from the shouty UK duo Sleaford Mods when they teamed up with Hot Chip for the collaborative benefit single "Nom Nom Nom" b/w "Cat Burglar" last year. Today, Sleaford Mods have a new ...

Though received wisdom would have it that Geoff Barrow (pictured right, with BEAK>) spent the best part of 11 years – the gap between Portishead’s self-titled second album and last year’s mighty Third ...

Portishead fans, rejoice! Hot on the heels of Beth Gibbons’ solo debut LP, Geoff Barrow’s Beak> returns with a surprise new record. Portishead fans, rejoice! Hot on the heels of Beth Gibbons’ solo ...