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Danny Scott

“I hated it. Absolutely hated it. And I still do. Trip-hop had nothing to do with me”: Portishead’s Geoff Barrow on pigeonholing, production and beating imposter syndrome to become a film soundtrack composer

Geoff Barrow.

A chat with Geoff Barrow – one third of Portishead and all-round creative dabbler – is never less than entertaining. Ask him a question and he’ll tell you what he thinks. Honestly.

He’s on the other end of a Zoom call from his home near Bristol, explaining his latest project, Game – the debut feature film from Barrow’s Invada Films off-shoot – but it’s not long before talk turns to Portishead and their accompanying musical pigeonhole, trip-hop.

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