19/12/2025
BLUES BLUES BLUES BLUES BLUES
NEW ZEALAND BLUES FANS
Let me introduce our new Brothers & Sisters from Vienna🇦🇹
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Straight out of Vienna, Austria, bringing deep grooves and raw soul — meet Portobella Express 🇦🇹
This blues outfit delivers authentic, smoky blues vibes with their latest single “Be Blues” 🎸🔥
Smooth, gritty, and soaked in emotion — this is blues the way it’s meant to be heard.
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🎧 Turn it up. Feel it. Live the blues.
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Portobello Express bio
Like a time portal to the golden age of psychedelic & blues rock, Vienna-based Portobello Express explore a sound rooted in the 60s and 70s, harnessing the unique, raw energy of that era while paying homage to their multicultural roots.
"Portobello" is a reference to London's famous Portobello Road, the psychedelic mushrooms of the same name and singer Betty's Italian heritage. "Express" is a neat reference to "espresso" - an Italian staple - and trains and their sheer power. What began as a Sixties cover band at a birthday party has evolved into a force that reminds us of the heyday of blues and rock, with a powerful stage presence that unites the room.
Formed in 2015, the band's diverse influences have seeped into their music. The result is a sound that is both retro and fresh.
Patrick, who has been playing R'n'B for 30 years with another Viennese band, The Jaybirds, has been heavily influenced by the British music scene. Betty cites US West Coast psych-rock as a formative influence, alongside soul and gospel. Both are big fans of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Jefferson Airplane and Rainbow.
Over the past few years, Portobello Express have shared the bill with Heavyball (UK), the Movement (DK), the Cheekbonians (CH), Sacri Monti (USA) and Raven (USA), to name but a few, and have played several shows and festivals in Austria, Germany and Italy.
July 2021 saw the release of a new EP, 'You Cry' (on CD and vinyl), which the band performed at various festivals around Austria in 2022. In the autumn of 2021, they followed up this EP with 'Unique', a lush prog-rock song based on Tchaikovsky's piano piece 'June': Barcarolle', which served as a foretaste of the current album.
The album “B.P.M.” continues the band's successful blend of retro sounds and was released on 10th May 2023 on Abra Fun Music. The 7 songs on the album confirm the psychedelic and heavy blues style that is typical of Portobello Express, but also offer harder rock and heavy sounds, always melodic thanks to the vocals of the front woman, Betty.
On 10 May 2024, the single 'Sorrow & Pain' was released, and is a fascinating fusion of classical and contemporary music inspired by Austrian composer Franz Schubert's 'Sonata No.20 in A Major D959'.
They released their first single 'Be Blues/ The Devil is Dead' in 2017 and have since released an EP '2-3-4!' (2018), a single on vinyl, 'The Sea Rises/ Sigh' (2019) and an 'Unplugged' EP (2020).
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/portobelloexpress
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Portob_Express
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/portobelloexpress67
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/portobelloexpress.bsky.social
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portobello_express
Bandcamp: https://portobelloexpress.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/portobelloexpress
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/.express
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5mN5P9dMi9EzoubInTVMmy?si=-PlBvUu0SLGU9rpW3BAasw
Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/17389509
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.de/artists/B081HDG674/portobello-express
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/portobello-express/1487870819
Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/vg9vt2xpiyKfMf1F8
