We all like a good read now and again, so they say, so here's some Massive Attack press clippings I'm just after scanning in and uploading into the media gallery.
What we have here are a nice selection, ranging from an old Neil Davidge interview uncovered from 1998, to Jonny Dollar's obituary in the Independent from 2009. My favourite of the bunch is the Future Music one from 1994, one were Mushroom uncommonly does most of the talking. Oh, and if you look hard enough you'll even find a certain baby photo in one of the scans. Not too sure how that got in there, but cute nonetheless.
For the future, I've got a few more bits and pieces still left over to scanned in, but I'll leave that until over the summer.
Of course if you want even more archived press interviews with the Massive, just check out the reading area over at Red Lines. When I was just learning about Massive attack back in 2000, reading all the interviews on there really got me clued up on the band. I'm just copying Avalanche's idea of scanning in any interviews I can find and doing my own text translations on the majority of them.
So anyway, here's the newly added scans. Enjoy!
Future Music Magazine Interview
The Independent Newspaper Interview #1
Evening Standard Newspaper Feature
The Guardian Newspaper Interview
The Independent Newspaper Feature
Mezzanine will be 20 years old now this April. I don't know about you but I definitely feel a bit older having typed that. Mezzanine was my gateway drug into not only Massive Attack but into alternative and electronic music in general. Bear in mind I was in my earlier teens at the time, but Mezzanine really shook me up the first few months I listened to it and changed my opinion of what music could be.
I think if your on this site, reading this now, then Mr. Davidge doesn't need much of an introduction - he's been the man behind the curtain with regards to Massive Attack, for near enough two decades now, quietly getting things done in the studio co-writing and producing alongside D&G.
Just saying, but it might have made more sense releasing this last year, what with it being the then 20th anniversary, but rather belatedly or not, Blue Lines will be getting released this 19th November in remastered guise.