5 Facts About the Making of Portishead's Dummy

The band formed during an Enterprise Allowance course Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons met in February 1991 while attending a government-backed course for unemployed people starting businesses.

Early recording happened in Neneh Cherry’s kitchen Barrow was working on Cherry’s Homebrew album, so the duo used her London kitchen to record initial ideas.

The first song was finished at Coach House Studios They moved to a Bristol studio where guitarist Adrian Utley joined them, completing ‘It Could Be Sweet’ later that year.

Utley’s addition shaped the band’s sound His guitar work became a defining element of the album’s dark, cinematic trip-hop style.

The album took over three years to complete From the 1991 meeting to its 1994 release, Dummy evolved through extended sessions and experimentation.