1998-11-02
Roseland NYC Live
Portishead
By Maeve C.
Most of Roseland NYC Live comes from a single night, 24 July 1997, when Portishead played New York’s Roseland Ballroom with an orchestra behind them. Two songs were taken from other shows: “Sour Times” from The Warfield in San Francisco and “Roads” from the Quart Festival in Kristiansand, Norway.
“Humming” opens the set and “Glory Box” arrives late in the sequence. The orchestra appears in the video credits as the New York Philharmonic, though none of its players were members of that orchestra. The album reached No. 40 in the UK and No. 9 in France.
Sources
Rights-holder metadata (Universal Music Operations, 25th-anniversary edition) gives the original release date as 2 November 1998.“Released on 2 November 1998 by Go! Beat”; Roseland 24 July 1997, Warfield 1 April 1998 (“Sour Times”), Quart Festival 3 July 1998 (“Roads”); orchestra credit note; UK No. 40, France No. 9.
Release events: UK Go! Beat 559 424-2 on 1998-11-02; US Go! Beat 314-559 424-2 on 1998-11-03. AllMusic’s 10 November date (seen only in a search summary) is later and does not affect the earliest UK day.
Catalogue master identifies the album; not used as date proof.