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Have your say on Portishead’s future
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 18 February 2009
Now free from a record deal, having parted ways with Universal’s Island Records, Portishead have been wracking their brains trying to come up with ways to head into the future. They didn’t come up with any ideas, so now they’re asking fans to shape their new business plan. Rule number one, don’t suggest they give away their music for free.
In a post on their MySpace, the band’s Geoff Barlow said: “We spent the day discussing the future of the P as we are free. Well, free of a deal and free of commitment… for now! With the world being the way it is there are lots of options open but if you lot have any bright ideas of how we should sell our music in the future let us know, why not! I don’t think that were into giving out music away for free to be honest – it fuckin’ takes ages to write and we have to heat our swimming pools!”
