Massive Attack return to Italy with two dates for summer 2025: the Bristol band, among the forerunners of trip-hop, will be the protagonist on Wednesday 18 June in Milan, Unaltrofestival, Parco della Musica di Milano, and Tuesday 24 June in Gorizia , Casa Rossa Arena. Back in our country after the appreciated performances in 2024 (in Mantua, in Piazza Sordello, and in Turin, as part of TOdays), the group formed by Robert '3D' Del Naja and Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall is ready to propose the his repertoire in a new show made of magnetic sounds, visuals and words.
Starting from 10am on Wednesday 11 December, tickets will be available in advance for users registered with My Live Nation. To access the presale, simply register for free on livenation.it. General ticket sales will open at 10am on Friday 13 December on livenation.it.
Massive Attack are also veterans of the “greenest concert ever”. At least in intention. The event, organized on 25 August in their Bristol, is entitled “Act 1.5” with the clear aim of raising awareness of the need for collective action to stay within +1.5 degrees of global warming. The show took place in the Clifton Downs area of their home city of Bristol, and came after the English trip-hop band outlined their 2021 plan for the music industry to reduce carbon emissions. “Act 1.5”, created in partnership with the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, was entirely powered by renewable energy, with electric shuttles to rail hubs. No meat was sold. All touring and production vehicles were either electric or powered by 100% waste product HVO fuel. The concert – said the “Mezzanine” band – was powered by 100% renewable energy, while the bathrooms were designed to be compostable.
Born as an open group (the “Wild Bunch” collective), Massive Attack helped launch trip-hop or “Bristol-sound”, transforming New York hip-hop into a concentration of soul, reggae-dub and electronic music with smoky and cinematic atmospheres. A disturbing metropolitan soundtrack, daughter of what Tricky defined as “pre-millennium tension”
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