Massive Attack

[Kounelaki]

Summer Tour Dates

7 May - Sound Academy, Toronto CA
9 May - Sound Academy, Toronto CA
11 May - Terminal 5, New York US
12 May - Terminal 5, New York US
13 May - House of Blues, Boston US
18 May - Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles US
20 May - Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles US
25 May - Warfield Theater, San Francisco US
26 May - Warfield Theater, San Francisco US
29 May - Malkin Bowl, Vancouver CA
30 May - Gorge Amphitheatre, Quincy US
30 May - Sasquatch Festival, Washington US
18 Jun - Southside Festival, Neuhausen auf den Fildern DE
19 Jun - Hurricane Festival, Scheessel DE
23 Jun - IN Music Festival, Zagreb CT
25 Jun - Belgrade Arena, Belgrade RS
27 Jun - Zone Arena, Bucharest RO
1 Jul - Hove Festival, Arendal NO
2 Jul - Heineken Opener Festival, Gdynia PL
3 Jul - Volt Festival, Sopron HU
4 Jul - Eurockeennes Festival, Belfort FR
5 Jul - Heineken Jammin Festival, Venice IT
6 Jul - Reggia di Venaria Reale, Turin IT
9 Jul - Moon & Stars Festival, Locarno CH
10 Jul - Rockwave Festival, Athens GR
13 Jul - Turkcell Kurucesme Arena, Istanbul TR
15 Jul - Zala Festivalna, Sofia BG
18 Jul - Melt! Festival, Grafenhainichen DE
29 Jul - Jisan Valley Rock Festival, Incheon City KR
1 Aug - Fuji Rock Festival, Niigata JP
5 Aug - The Big Chill, Ledbury GB
19 Aug - Frequency Festival, Sankt Polten AT
27 Aug - Cabaret Vert, Charleville-Mezieres FR
28 Aug - Rock En Seine, Paris FR
3 Sep - Sportpaleis, Antwerp BE
4 Sep - Electric Picnic, Stradbally GB

[Kounelaki]

Interview
http://www.eyeweekly.com/music/intervie ... ive-attack

[Frank The Bunny]

Summer Tour Dates

30 May - Gorge Amphitheatre, Quincy US
30 May - Sasquatch Festival, Washington US

should read:
30 May - Sasquatch Festival, Gorge Amphitheater, Quincy Washington US

[withahip]

Summer Tour Dates

7 May - Sound Academy, Toronto CA
9 May - Sound Academy, Toronto CA

Oh yes.

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Looks like they pull off the tunes without the original singers just fine


[gvideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=733441184385640338#[/gvideo]

[Kounelaki]

They do pull them off.

[withahip]

The show was excellent! Teardrop was the only flub. No low end and the guitar player tried some noodling at the end - Topley Bird was he singer for the night and walked off stage in embarrassment after that one.

[withahip]

Not a ringing endorsement focusing on the flub in most folks fav song

The song was amazing.
Warm bass and the guitarists were excellent. They were way beyong the simple riffs of the original samples yet when they improvised or did more it fit - like having Will or Robin Guthrie on stage as opposed to Steve Vai.

The visuals were a light show like I have never seen. A lot of preaching and even the Howard Zinn quotes (whom I love) got to the uncomfortable level - especially when they discussed money and I considered how much I shelled out for tix.

Topley Bird pulled off all the vocal parts and Daddy G and Naja were same cool as ever selves.

Horace Andy was truly fantastic.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGDrWh7iS8c[/youtube]

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Here is Teardrop - you decide

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U56whEM1zrg[/youtube]

[withahip]

Alright it is pretty good. The synth instead of guitar through me. Definitely lost the low end. And from where I was standing holding the cam it seemed she was ticked. She wasn't.

So my one gripe was in accurate.

[Frank The Bunny]

Topley Bird was the singer for the night and walked off stage in embarrassment after that one.

It's interesting how incestuous the industry is - Tricky was with Massive Attack before going solo. Martina Topley Bird was Tricky's muse/female vocalist for his first several albums. Now several years after their falling out, she resurfaces as vocalist on Massive Attack's album.

[withahip]

The Bunnymen work with other artists. Will with Primal Scream. Pete with the La's. Ian and Coldplay. Les with The Wild Swans.


Bird sang on Psyche and Babel on the new MA album. And why not? Tricky and Bird split 12 years ago.

Najal did UNKLE's WAR Stories album cover and the new album cover.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8402022.stm

Martina Topley Bird, one-time partner of Tricky and vocalist on a number of his albums, is another musician involved with Heligoland, smoothing over relations between Massive Attack and Tricky.

"It was one of those things where we've always wanted to work with Martina because we've always thought she was amazing, but politically we never really approached her because of the Tricky situation," Marshall said.

http://www.nme.com/news/massive-attack/48796

Tricky wants the spotlight. Seems like he really hated the idea that his work was seen as a collaboration with Bird despite the fact she co-wrote and produced some of Tricky's music.


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Did you ever consider bringing in Tricky?

D: Yeah, Tricky came to a soundcheck in Paris, I hadn't seen him for five years. It was really odd, but as soon as I met him it just clicked, and [we] forgot the current dynamic and got into an old one, same as ten years before.

G: You know, we asked Tricky if he wanted to come on board for this album, but it was just a case of him waiting for me to call and me waiting for him to call.

D: It's like a Mexican standoff: ''You have to call me twice before i call you''.

G: It was yeah, one of those bravado things. But it might be a possibility for him coming on board for the next one. I still think he's a genius and I love him.

D: Definitely, it's all about the moment really. Tricky and me you know...when we got together it was a very volatile relationship, both Aquarians, both very selfish.

G: [Mockingly] Nooo. Selfish? Nooo.

http://news.qthemusic.com/2010/02/massi ... rview.html

[Kounelaki]

It's interesting how incestuous the industry is - Tricky was with Massive Attack before going solo. Martina Topley Bird was Tricky's muse/female vocalist for his first several albums. Now several years after their falling out, she resurfaces as vocalist on Massive Attack's album.

Not sure I would call it incestuous. They're all from Bristol and must have known each other for ages.