Electric Picnic Archives: Beth Gibbons interview

Electric Picnic is just over a week away. High time, then, to revisit HP’s encounters down through the years with some of the biggest stars on the 2014 bill.
Up first, hotly-anticipated headliners Portishead. With Geoff Barrow talking exclusively to Hot Press in the Electric Picnic issue (out tomorrow), we cast our minds back almost two decades.
The year was 1995 and Stuart Clark caught up with the elusive Beth Gibbons.
Up until that point, Gibbons refused to talk to the press because she had nothing to say. Turns out that wasn’t the case in the slightest…
Read all about it HERE.
Our daily trip down memory lane will continue in the run up to Electric Picnic, which takes place in Stradbally, August 29 – 31