Adrian Utley – The Passion of Joan of Arc at Shakespeares Globe & Wells Cathedral Adrian Utley will be performing alongside Will Gregory and the 23 piece orchestra conducted by Charles Hazlewood at 2 UK shows this year…. Shakespeares Globe on September 19th Wells Cathedral on October 7th “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928) directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer chronicles Joan of Arc’s trial and execution during her captivity in France. Geoff is fundraising for Breast Cancer Care Jason Hazeley in Calais…. As well as playing keyboards with Portishead, Jason writes books and recently went out to Calais, read below…… This week, I spent a paltry 48 hours in Calais, doing anything I could to join the effort to help the thousands of refugees stuck there. L’Auberge des Migrants, the huge warehouse and volunteer community that feeds 2,000 people a day thanks to donations, was one of the two places I visited. To do so is the most colossally humbling experience.

People with skills I can only gawp at — building, cooking, sewing — doing everything they can. The Jungle, a place on the constant choke chain of the authorities, surviving nonetheless. Cafés, shops, places of worship, a school, libraries, barbers, a bike repair place. Children have been born there. People wearing shoes and clothes they were gifted — some of whom are doctors or lawyers; the kind of professional you’d ordinarily rope in to sign your passport form — and yet a guy from Sudan pleaded with us for the one thing he’d like more than anything in the world: a chair. He may not have sat in a chair for six months, for all I know. We didn’t have a chair. What a waste of human resources. Someone who speaks English, Arabic, Russian and French, yet lives in second-hand shoes, anyone? What an obscene cartoon of human rights. One of the new rules is NO WOOD ALLOWED. So homes are routinely built from branches and ground sheet and anything lying around. Including spent tear gas canisters.

The indignity is fucking staggering. And yet, what a jawdropping effort is underway there. I met so many people whose simple act of helping made me feel about as useless as I’ve ever felt — David, Lesley, Tom, Hayley, Tina, Ollie, Katerina, Anna — their constant efforts are fucking incredible. Nothing we can do is enough. The south half of The Jungle has been demolished, apart from the school and the church. Repair Cracked Ceramic GrillThe north half survives. Big Gulps Huh T ShirtBut these people need money and NOW. Top Gear Uk S01e01It means survival to them. It means food and shelter. 30 more people turn up every day. The kid who hung around our van for an hour on Tuesday eventually got a Lego set because it needed offing. To him, living somewhere with next to fuck all infrastructure and fly-squatted dead rats baking in the sun, that was a dream.

And it’s not enough.You can give something every month. Doesn’t need to be much. Even if you give all you can afford, it’s not enough. PRS for Music Ivor Novello Award – Outstanding Contribution to British Music Beak dates – Summer 2016 May 25th Brighton UK – Bleach May 27th Antwerp Belgium – Trix Club May 29th Paris, France – Villette Sonique June 2nd Barcelona, Spain – Primavera June 8th Ravenna, Italy – Beaches Brew June 10th Porto, Portugal – Primavera June 17th Lucerne, Switzerland – B-Sides Festival June 19th Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret June 25th Glastonbury, UK Aug 20th Green Man Festival, UK High Rise in UK cinemas tomorrow, March 18th We have contributed a track to the new Ben Wheatley film High Rise which is the Empire Gala at London Film Festival on Friday 9th October at the Odeon Leicester Square. The track is a cover version of Abba’s SOS. PORTISHEAD announce Latitude warm up show at Cardiff University – Thursday 16 July

Tickets on sale – Tuesday 14 July – 9am GMT Portishead have announced that they will play a headline show at Cardiff University this Thursday 16 July which will serve as a warm up show to their headline slot at Latitude Festival on Saturday 18 July. Tickets will be available to buy from 9am on Tuesday 14 July from the below links: Bristol Ticket Shop – Physical tickets can be purchased inside the shop at 41 High Street, Bristol BS1 2AT Portishead are playing Montreux Jazz Festival’s Stravinski Hall on July 10th. Walnut crew neck t-shirt with PORTISHEAD printed inside in Black, 100% Organic cotton. Children don’t start wars.  But their homes, schools, families and communities are torn apart by war.  These are the very things kids rely on for protection and the chance to build a life free from poverty.  War Child is an international charity that protects children from the brutal effects of war and its consequences.  War Child works in many conflict zones including Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Uganda.

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