Portishead Born in
Walton in Gordano, Somerset, Geoff moved with his mother to the town
Portishead when he was 11, after his parents divorced. After being involved in many local rock bands, playing drums and DJing in hip-hop groups, Barrow got his first job at the Coach House Studios as a tape operator soon after it opened in 1989.
Invada In 2001, Barrow formed the Australian
record label Invada, whose artist roster includes acts such as RuC.L and
ARIA-award-winning group
Koolism), together with Katalyst's Ashley Anderson. Their self-titled album was released in 2009. In 2010 the group performed as the backing band for
Anika's
self-titled debut album. Barrow had met Anika, a political journalist, and proposed recording material together. The album was produced over twelve days, using one room, no overdubs or repair, and only edits to create arrangements. The album's lead single, "
Yang Yang", was released on 17 November 2009 through Invada and
Stones Throw Records in the USA and Japan. In early 2012, Barrow's new
hip hop project
Quakers was announced to be releasing an album on Stones Throw. He also formed the musical project Drokk with TV composer
Ben Salisbury and released the album
Drokk: Music inspired by Mega-City One, with songs inspired by the comic book character
Judge Dredd. On 2 July Barrow, Billy Fuller and Matt Williams released their second Beak album through Invada. On 20 September 2018 the band, with Will Young replacing Williams, released their third album on Invada.
Film work Barrow was the music supervisor for the
Banksy film
Exit Through the Gift Shop, which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2010, and was released in April 2010. In 2013, Barrow collaborated again with
Ben Salisbury on the score for the film
Ex Machina by
Alex Garland, for whom the pair subsequently provided soundtracks for his 2018 film
Annihilation, the 2020 miniseries
Devs, the 2022 film
Men, and in 2024 for
Civil War. The duo also collaborated on the scores for the
Black Mirror episode "
Men Against Fire" and the
Netflix series
Archive 81. Barrow, Salisbury and Simon Ashdown produced the score for the
Prime Video series
Hanna. Beak performed the soundtrack for Tom Geens' 2015 film
Couple in a Hole, drawing largely on the band's earlier material. In 2016, Barrow scored the
Ben Wheatley film
Free Fire. In 2025, Barrow produced the film
Game under the Invada Films label, starring
Jason Williamson. ==Credits==