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by Viks on 08/06/2025Co-op Live - ManchesterRating: 5 out of 5Sound quality was brilliant. Venue was really easy to get in and out of.
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Massive Attack have announced headline UK dates, kicking off in Glasgow on 28 January 2019. The five UK and Ireland dates form part of a full European run, which also see Bristol pioneers take to France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Portugal.
The totally new audio and visual production features Sottish singer and songwriter Elizabeth Fraser, best known for fronting Cocteau Twins, and design by Robert Del Naja. Del Naja, also known as 3D, emerged out of the Bristol graffiti scene as well as being a founding member of Massive Attack. In 2009 he received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
The live shows reimagine their iconic third album Mezzanine, originally released in 1998. Twenty one years on, the shows promise custom audio reconstructed from the original samples and influences.
Massive Attack will be reimagining the record on the following UK and Ireland dates:
28 January 2019 – SSE Hydro, Glasgow
29 January 2019 – Manchester Arena, Manchester
22 February 2019 – The O2, London
24 February 2019 – 3Arena, Dublin
1 March 2019 – Steelyard, Bristol
Last updated: November, 2018
Sound quality was brilliant. Venue was really easy to get in and out of.
Still trying to comprehend what I witnessed last night. It was so much more than I imagined it could be. Somewhere between a living art installation, ethereal dreamscape and political rally. Music and stunning Adam Curtis visuals blended seamlessly. Horace Andy, Deborah Miller were flawless, and my jaw just about hit the flaw when the wonderful Liz Fraser was introduced. Yes, her voice isn't as strong as it once was but she still brings a breathless delicacy that is entoxicating. Massive Attack, after such a long time waiting to see you as one of my "bucket list bands"you blew me away! This gig will live in my memory until I'm old and feeble minded. Okay, so the venue isn't all it's cracked up to be. The seats have no legroom, the rake is too shallow, but it's a fairly good view for everybody. The screens and lighting are amazing and the music quality is fantastic. Vocals could be clearer but I don't know if this is the venue or artist's fault. If you smoke or vape forget it. And if you pay extra for the backstage pass that's a long time to go without nicotine, you dirty, filthy, 2nd class citizen, you. £9 for a pint of Guinness, you won't be getting leathered. So that's a good thing for everybody else.
Sound - amazing; musical content - amazing; ; band performance - amazing, great set list, great vocalists. BUT - political overkill with guest activist !!! We all know , as humans, what is right and wrong, and a night at a great gig is an escape from that : definitely detracted from the overall experience. Top notch band, though !!