News featuring Daddy G

The following news stories mention Daddy G. Stories are compiled from a hand-picked selection of popular music news sites based in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. Updated within the last hour.

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Sunday 28th October

  • “Massive Attack's blueprint for UK pop's future”

    In 1991 the laidback Bristol collective roused themselves to unleash their debut album. Reissued 21 years on it remains a landmark. Here, an early champion of the band recalls its making and its lasting influence

    The three members of Massive Attack were invited to do a DJ set on a French radio programme some time back in the early 90s. Having written about and befriended the group back then, I was lucky enough to receive one of the few cassette-only recordings of the set. It offered an illuminating glimpse of the musical undercurrents they'd drawn on in making their groundbreaking debut album, Blue Lines, released in 1991.

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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Saturday 26th May

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Sunday 25th March

  • “Exclusive: the inside story of the Streets”

    Mike Skinner emerged from the Birmingham garage scene, a musician poet who captivated a generation of fans with his wit and honesty. Now he writes about those years – the binges, the feuds, the need for authenticity that would end in illness and finish the Streets

    • The first album I ever owned was Vanilla Ice's To The Extreme, which I got for Christmas when I was 11. I'm quite proud of the fact that I listened to it once and thought: "That first song is a tune, but the rest of this is rubbish."

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

’11 Dec 9 Fri

Friday 9th December

  • “From the Dug Out to DMZ and dubstep”

    A Radio 1Xtra series is documenting the history of classic club nights. Its maker, Emma Warren, lists the 10 most important institutions of the last 25 years

    Throughout history there have always been examples of the creative genius that can develop when interesting people come together – think of Bletchley Park in the second world war, for instance, or the Bloomsbury Group. Or of an outsized rave in Milton Keynes called Sidewinder that unwittingly became a cradle for the nascent grime scene.

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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Wednesday 4th August

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Monday 12th July

  • “Tricky gears up for ninth album”

    Featuring guest spots from his little brother and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, Mixed Race will be released in September

    Tricky has announced details of his ninth studio album, Mixed Race. Despite his recent reconciliation with Massive Attack, the LP boasts a very different set of collaborators, including Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and Tricky's little brother, Marlon Thaws.

    Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

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Thursday 13th May

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Wednesday 12th May

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Tuesday 20th April

  • Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, Exclusive

    Massive Attack will spend May touring Canada and the US, marking the trip-hop originators' first North America tour in four years. The jaunt begins in Toronto on May 7 and ends at the Sasquatch Festival in George, Wa., on May 30, all of which is in honor of the Bristol duo's winter-released fifth studio album, 'Heligoland.'

    Read the complete article at www.spinner.com

  • “It's All Good: An Interview with Daddy G of Massive Attack (Features)”

    When not sickened with the United Kingdom turning into Big Brother, excited by the possibilities of YouTube, or stunned by their nationwide artwork banning, Daddy G of Massive Attack is more than happy to be back into the fold than ever before, and he tells PopMatters all about it.

    Massive Attack has never really fit in, or at least that's how they see it. For much of their two-decade recording career, the Bristol, England-based "trip-hop" pioneers have been defined in terms of how they are different from those around them, whether in their early-days as recording artists who didn't play musical instruments and DJs who didn't spin uptempo dance-tracks, or throughout their time in the public eye as activists who have been generally critical…

    Read the complete article at www.popmatters.com

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