This article is about the musical artist. For the town, see Portishead, Somerset. Portishead () are a band from Bristol, England, named after the nearby town of the same name, west of Bristol. The band, along with fellow Bristol artists such as Tricky and Massive Attack, created a new genre of down-tempo electronic music with distinct hip-hop, jazz and dub influences that came to be known as Trip Hop. History The band was formed in Bristol, UK in 1991, by multi-instrumentalist Geoff Barrow and vocalist Beth Gibbons. Barrow previously worked with the Bristol-based sound-system/DJ collective The Wild Bunch, which included trip-hop artist Tricky, producer Nellee Hooper, and Daddy G and Mushroom, who formed trip-hop group Massive Attack. Barrow assisted with the programming on Massive Attack?s 1991 debut album Blue Lines.After releasing a short film (To Kill a Dead Man) and its accompanying music