Portishead’s Adrian Utley – Our Generation | Rotosound

Spy inside the studio of Portishead’s Adrian Utley and discover what inspires his creative process. Utley’s “entire life is music”, so incidentally we find him in his home studio surrounded by equipment he has used on sessions for the likes of Goldfrapp, Massive Attack, and Radiohead’s Philip Selway. “It doesn’t matter if it’s really cheap or if it’s really expensive,” Adrian is more interested in finding an “esoteric sound” and over the years he has used Rotosound strings to get it. Growing up playing bass in holiday camps, Adrian Utley stepped up to become a professional session guitarist, playing with Big John Patton and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and Jeff Beck, before concentrating on his original project Portishead with friends Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow. The trio’s debut album ’Dummy’ was met with critical acclaim and is now regarded as somewhat of a soundtrack to the 1990s. Utley’s guitar and bass playing is a big influence on the band'