Portishead's Beth Gibbons Shares Video For New Solo Song 'Lost Changes'
He lives out of date Due this Friday via Domino. New UK and EU tour dates announced
May 15, 2024
Photo by Netti Habel
Portishead's Beth Gibbons releases her debut solo album, He lives out of date, this Friday via Domino. Now she's shared her third single, “Lost Changes,” via a music video. He has also announced some new UK and EU tour dates. Juno Calypso directed the video. Check it out below, followed by the tour dates.
Gibbons previously shared the album's first single, “Floating on a Moment,” via a music video. “Floating on a Moment” was one of the songs of the week. She then shared her second single, “Reaching Out,” via an interactive music video. It was again one of the songs of the week.
Portishead's last album was in 2008 Third. In 2002 Gibbons teamed up with Rustin Man (aka Paul Webb of Talk Talk) for the collaborative album Out of season. In 2014 Gibbons collaborated with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, to perform Henryk Górecki's acclaimed 1977 symphony, Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sad Songs). An album and a film documenting the performance, simply titled Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)released in 2019. In 2022, Gibbons collaborated with Kendrick Lamar on the song “Mother I Sober”, from Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers album.
Despite her long career, He lives out of date is her first true solo album. Gibbons produced the album with James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, The Last Dinner Party), with additional production by Lee Harris (Talk Talk).
The album was inspired by a decade of change as he entered middle age and the vibrancy and hope of youth began to fade. As loved ones began to die much more regularly than when she was younger.
“I realized what life was like without hope,” Gibbons says in a press release. “And that was a sadness I had never felt. Before, I had the ability to change my future, but when you're dealing with your body, you can't force it to do something it doesn't want to do.”
The album's themes include motherhood, stress, menopause and mortality.
“People started dying,” says Gibbons. “When you're young, you never know the end, you don't know how it's going to turn out. You think, “We're going to move past this. It will get better.' Some endings are hard to digest.”
Gibbons adds, more hopeful: “I've come out the other end now, I just think you have to be brave.”
Read our rave review for Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs).
Beth Gibbons tour Dates:
May 27 – La Salle Pleyel, Paris – SOLD OUT
May 28 – Theater 11, Zurich
May 30 – Primavera Sound festival, Barcelona
May 31 – La Bourse Du Travail, Lyon – SOLD OUT
June 2 – Uber Eats Music Hall, Berlin
June 3 – Falkonersalen, Copenhagen
June 5 – TivoliVredenburg (Main Hall), Utrecht – SOLD OUT
June 6 – Cirque Royal, Brussels – SOLD OUT
June 9 – The Barbican Centre, London – SOLD OUT
June 10 – Albert Hall, Manchester
June 11 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
July 27 – Fuji Rock festival, Niigata
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