Why is portishead called portishead

Have you ever wondered what Portishead means? The name came from the town Barrow grew up in called Portishead in Bristol, North Somerset, UK. Portishead (the town) history dates back to Roman times and its name derives from the “Port at the Head of the river”.

Portishead (pronounced /pɔrtɪsˈhɛd/, with the stress on head) are an English musical group from Bristol. The band is named after the nearby town of the same name, 13 km (8 mi) west of Bristol.

Rather, they are the newest mutation of the existentially challenged goth-genre to emanate from the old U.K., worthy successors to the post-punk art-gloom tradition that bands such as Joy Division and the Cure established back in the early 1980s.