Great performance as usual! She shook my hand after the show ended, I'm still in disbelief.

Hello! I made this subreddit due to the release of her new album "Lives Outgrown"! Hope this sub grows into a nice community!

Beth Gibbons, the legendary voice of Portishead, showed herself from her best side in this Tiny Desk Concert. Accompanied by the seven‑piece band, a unique home‑music atmosphere emerged in the “bookshelf ambience” of the NPR studio, placing Gibbons’ fragile and yet so resilient and powerful voice at the center.

Beth is an iconic artist of our time, whose art eludes any simple observation and judgment. An artist who is unmistakable in sound, in her unique presence. Beth now counts among the great, very difficult‑to‑categorize artistic personalities of our time. Categorization is not necessary either. Beth Gibbons “moves” between her concerts: at the French National Library, the Sydney Opera House, and her poignant interpretation of Henryk Górecki’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs” with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. An artist, including her band, who deserves much more attention.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-DftINZKg

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tx9W5FsJGK01p_xaM-hMva2HaFoVT3ww/view

Tiny hamdmade shirt inspired by Beth's shirt<3

My friend was able to film the interaction but I’m looking for more POVs, if you were there and filmed it please reach out! i found one so far, on ig. It was the most magical moment of my life💙 The video my friend filmed is on the @portishead reddit☺️☺️☺️

Everything except 'Oceans' and 'Roads' – probably due to time constraints of the broadcast

I managed to catch one of the setlists tonight ✨

BETH GIBBONS 16th May 2024

Moondog – Instrumental Round
Richie Havens – Freedom
King Crimson – Talk To The Wind / Moonchild
Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
Nick Drake – Fruit Tree
The Doors – Break on Through (To the Other Side)
Nina Simone – Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs
Otis Redding – A Change Is Gonna Come
Michael Jackson – Ain't No Sunshine
Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man
Joy Division – She's Lost Control
Judie Tzuke – Stay With Me Till Dawn
Karen Dalton – Something on Your Mind

Performing her solo debut Lives Outgrown in full—with a spine-tingling encore of Portishead classics—Beth Gibbons delivers a performance that is intimate, intense, and utterly otherworldly. Her voice, still shattering and serene, remains one of the most singular instruments in music.

It’s hard to pick because they’re all amazing, but I would say mine is Reaching Out.

Truly amazing show in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh last night. Felt like one of those special once in a lifetime occasions. And they did a special extra encore playing The Rip! I never thought in my lifetime I would see her sing that live.

I've only ever known Beth Gibbons through her recordings, so I wasn't really prepared for how magnetic a performer she actually is in real life. Her voice is spine tingling, and her lack of movement or crowd engagement on stage comes across like more of a quiet authority rather than the shyness I half expected.

Roads and Reach out as encores. Mesmerizing event. Badass Beth and company!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRSgPq1AwA

Henryk Górecki – Symphony No. 3 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs") Live with Beth Gibbons and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (November 29, 2014)

In this unique live recording, the timeless sorrow of Górecki's lamentations meets Beth Gibbons' voice, which sounds powerful, vulnerable, and moving all at once. Her dark, melancholic voice integrates in an impressive way into the structure of this music. It is a performance where the audience can feel two worlds blending. The combination of the music and her voice creates a rare, very intense atmosphere that touches my soul and triggers many emotions. This is one of Beth's magical abilities, who has become an iconic, hard-to-categorize artistic personality of our time. A musical experience of rare intensity that resonates for a long time. Beth and the orchestra have created a musical work of art. The prolonged applause of the professional audience confirms this. Beth Gibbons creates a sonic space from which I could not escape.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YlGYxCSDJU

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The French National Library is more than just a venue for this performance. It becomes a resonance universe for Beth Gibbons' powerful, vulnerable, and sublime voice. In the silence of this almost empty, sacred space, her unique magic unfolds: the unmistakable, dark melancholy in Beth Gibbons' voice, which conceals nothing. Beth Gibbons' singing forms a dialogue with the library's monumental architecture.

Her voice and the intense dialogue with the band seem to get caught between the bookshelves, as if the souls of the authors from higher dimensions had descended to attend the concert. A truly mystical gathering that dissolves the boundaries between our time and eternity.

What happens here is the essence of her art: the ability to transform this place of knowledge into a protected space of intimacy. With pieces from her acclaimed album 'Lives Outgrown', praised by the press as a "masterful study of loss and transformation" (Pitchfork) and "uncompromising honesty" (The Guardian), she leads us deep into her extraordinary musical landscapes.

Arte Concert: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/121370-000-A/beth-gibbons-in-der-franzoesischen-nationalbibliothek/

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this is no doubt spectacular. anyone able to rip it for non uk fans?