Adrian Utley (Portishead)

You probably have heard of something called trip-hop. It originated in UK in the early 90′s and it was an exciting and successful mixture of hip-hop vibes, sometimes with soft spoken vocals, electronic music like house and chill-out, some jazzy influence and of course pop and rock music. Hailing from Bristol, Portishead were one of the pioneers and their main weapon was the personal and fragile voice of Beth Gibbons. They released their debut Dummy (which is one of the best records in a decade full of great records) to high critical acclaim, they followed that path with their second album and that was all. Like if they had been conscious of the self-limited pattern of what initially was a new subgenre, they ceased their activity avoiding any break-up. They just stopped the band.

Well, few years ago they surprised again with a Third record (called that way, Third) which was jaw-dropping to the entire indie community. These three guys who had been basically doing nothing, came back with a new sound and, far away from what you could call maturity, they shifted from their classy rythms full of grooves and black influences (soul, jazz) to more after-punk and kraut-rock oriented paranoia.

So don’t forget their music, I couldn’t help pointing it out, although that is not the point here.

With this comeback, I rediscover an Adrian Utley gracefully aged. This time, basically the subject hadn’t changed a bit of his looks (same left-ear piercing, same sideburns), it’s just that the hair went a bit whiter and a bit off. To be honest he was as hot back in the time, you know, pink-cheeked and all. A tough but friendly-looking bloke, but he’s getting wider and that’s good to me.

There are not as many great pics of him, since all the focuses center normally in Beth Gibbons. Besides, Geoff Barrow is often given more credit as main composer for the band (which seems to be true) and is also better known than Utley.

 

When I see him doing nasty things with their guitars, I wanna do nasty things with him

All pink and sweaty…mmmm

I have this sort of attraction to men who shave probably daily but still have beard always growing. I would love to kiss Adrian and feel that shaven facial hair. I find their grey/white sideburns pretty hot, too.

For the last picture, this great portrait. Beautiful as ever and with broken jeans, so provocative!

Peter Hook (Joy Division / New Order)

Long time since last post. I am not always on the mood to blog or to think about gorgeous rockers that may be on the blog. So, I thought I would make two posts almost at the time. The subject would be similar, two mature men that surprisingly or maybe not, I find cuter as time passes. Both of them are British, they’re also great artists and none of them is/was the frontman of their bands. Also, they have something in common musically or let’s best say that one band took sound from where the other(s) left.

¿Feeling curious? I’m talking about Peter Hook, bassist of Joy Division and New Order -nowadays touring and playing Joy Division setlists- and Adrian Utley, which plays, well, bass, guitar, piano and whatever in the truly amazing Portishead, as amazing as Joy Division were.

There are a lot of photographs so I split this in one post for each musician and this one is about Hook.

To understand why I’m focusing in him right now let’s see some evolution. This is how Hookie looked liked back when Joy Division and New Order were making history.

Ok, well, not bad. A lot of people would find him pretty attractive for sure. But still not my cup of tea.

So, years passed and he turned into this. So yeah, he got older, he got fat and yet, he grew long hair for whatever purpose.

So there would still something wrong… exactly, the hair. Fortunately, it became grey (or stopped tainting, whatever)

And finally, he got rid of the long hair and we’re left with a fucking charming man like this. Sparkling eyes, wide jaw, cute short beard, facial marks of age that make him look like the nicest dude in the neighbourhood.

Ok, Hookie, I would like to be your mixer

I must say that I didn’t truly discover how sexy he was until I saw him performing Unknown Pleasures. The show was really moving and he showed off as a fucking powerhouse. Not the closer performance to what Ian Curtis did really. Funny enough for one of the guys who played more and more with synth-pop, as a frontman he likes to fiercely rock, being expressive and aggressive, far from the kind of cold and alienated ways that Curtis showed.

This is a pic I’ve just found from this summer. Apparently he has lost some weight (why?) and he still looks good but I hope he don’t go that way too far. As an adult of his age there’s no point in losing weight to fit in tight jeans, leave the indie fashion for youngsters

In that tour and hopefully in the future, there was his son with him in the band and I must say he is a find. Good genes, he has that kind of hooliganish look, you know like a bit rude and not very smart (no offense, just a look cliché). And he’s slightly chub, not really fat but a bit stocky. I dig him, I don’t need to wait for him to grow older, LOL. Jokes aside, it must be supercool to have a father like this and tour with him playing those huge songs.
 

Anyway, let’s just delight with some more pics of the dad.