Portishead is a trip-hop English band hailing from Bristol. The name of the band is derived from a town 12 km west of Bristol with the same name. The band was formed in 1991 by Adrain Utley, Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow. The trio had got together created a short film titled, To Kill a Dead Man. The movie was a result of heavy inspirational dose of espionage films, the soundtrack of the movie was the reason the three got noticed and signed up under Go!Beat Records. Portishead released their first album; Dummy in 1994, the first single was titled “Numb”. The band was averse to press coverage but the album was largely successful in Europe and US where it sold more than 150,000 copies.

The hit single “Glory Box” from the album would go onto be a classic hit and was used in movies such as “Sour Times” and “When the Cat’s Away”, the song also won the prominent Mercury Music Prize. The band’s self titled second album came after a hiatus of three years. “Portishead” featured a more harsher and grainer sound with three songs, “Cowboys”, “Over” and “All Mine” being the ones which made it to the top of the charts.