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Massive Attack will perform in Belgrade

Massive Attack in Belgrade

Published: June 16, 2010 | Source: Belgradenet.com, Blic.rs |  Share / Bookmark

The legendary British band Massive Attack have booked a concert at the Belgrade Arena on 25 June. The Bristol-born trip hop band stand out with their unique style and immortal hits like Unfinished Sympathy, Protection and Teardrop, while their Belgrade concert will be a chance for a promotion of their latest album, Heligoland.

After six years Massive Attack will again be performing in Serbia, after their concert at the 2004 Exit Festival, which left a long-standing aftertaste and a memorable, emotional experience. The gig has been deemed as one of the finest ones in the festival’s history.

Although they are often labelled pioneers of trip-hop together with Tricky and Portishead, Massive Attack shun away from rigid categorizations and claim their music is, simply put, unique.

In the late 1980s the band was founded by Grant Marshall, Andy Vowles and Robert Del Naja. Massive Attack’s debut album Blue Lines was recorded at Neneh Cherry’s house in 1991, featuring immense hits such as Unfinished Sympathy and Safe From Harm. Three years later, Massive Attack released another critically-acclaimed album – Protection – with equally massive hits like Karmacoma, Better Things and Sly. In April 1998, Mezzanine came out and launched singles like Teardrop, Inertia Creeps and Risingson. Although Mezzanine achieved instant success, tensions within the band grew and Andy Vowles left the band, soon to be followed by Marshall’s temporary parting ways with Massive Attack in 2001. Del Naja, together with the newly-introduced Neil Davidge, contributed to the band’s fourth studio album 100th Window in 2003, featuring singles like Special Cases, Butterfly Caught. A few years later, Del Naja and Marshall join forces again, going on a prolonged artistic break, until Massive Attack came out with the fifth studio album this February – Heligoland.

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