Portishead Rebel Against Music Industry With Twitter Promises

The music industry can sometimes treat a band like a dancing bear, forcing them to do rounds of interviews, promotions, added content etc.

In detailing how things will work for Portishead's next album, Geoff Barrow has rebelled against these strictures, issuing a series of things the bands will not do --and made sure to use capital letters, so we don't get confused and think them to be a series of promises of future enterprises.

Barrow wrote on Twitter (via NME), "There will be NO free downloads. There will be NO bonus tracks. There will be NO remixes. There will be NO hidden footage.

"There will be NO additional content. There will be NO corporate partners. There will be NO fashion lines. There will be NO tabloid pictures."

He added, "There will be NO £25 unit cost. There will be NO street team. There will be NO Myspace. There will be NO celeb producer. There will be NO Twitter."

That last one is a little ironic, considering where this list was placed.

Barrow continued,"There will be NO press/blogger gig. There will be NO acoustic session. There will be NO meet and greet. There will be NO edited version.

"There will be NO iTunes only. There will be NO press launch. There will be NO Asian version. There will be NO radio friendly."

"Just music and us."