Miscellaneous Links
Links To Websites Of Organizations That Massive Attack Have Some Involvement In Or Perhaps Not Even That In No Particular Order
The Wikipedia project relys on wiki technology, which enables literally anyone with internet access to creatre and edit pages on any subject matter with an eye on maintaining the world's largest repository of encyclopedic knowledge. Massive Attack have their own entry on Wikipedia, along with some other related articles concerning their albums and some of the their most popular songs, but the link on this page is for the entry just for the band themselves, which in its current form is an excellent overview of Massive Attack's career presented in a chronological timeline, along with other ancillary information such as a list of the band's media usage and the various remixes and b-sides they have done.
At the beginning of 2009, Ex (one of the most respected Massive Attack fans) did a total revamp of the Wikipedia entry's content, greatly enhancing it and in the process making it a very recommended link for any Massive Attack fan, old or new, to read. On another note, MASSIVEATTACK.IE has its own dedicated wiki section just for fans to contribute their knowledge of the band to.
This is the website for Massive Attack's side-project setup at the end of 2003, which is expressively for the production of music intended for film, TV and advertising. However, it is not assessable to the average internet user as it requires a login and password. The site is meant only for clients or potential clients for onepointsix. On a word of clarification, the website onepointsix.com has no connection whatsoever to onepointsix.co.uk, coincidentally being an online furniture store.
UVA is the lighting production company behind all of Massive Attack's live performance visuals since their 2003 tour up to the present. They were also responsible for the Volume art installation project along with Massive Attack. UVA's approach combines three disciplines: art direction, production design and software engineering. Their philosophy is to tightly integrate these elements to deliver real-time, immersive and responsive experiences. Their website allows you to view their full body of work for both Massive Attack and other artists such as U2 and Basement Jaxx.
Nocturne was the nightclub located in Massive Attack's hometown of Bristol, UK which they bought a stake in 2001. The theme of the concept behind Nocturne was to keep quality high and attitude low. The design reflects this with the use of high end materials; leather cladding on the walls, smouldering chic of intimate arches, Chinese dark wood tables and smoking Buddhas. This website for Nocturne is basically redundant now as Nocturne as of 2006 has ceased to be, but is included here for completeness sake.
In 2006, the Nocturne bar was refurbished and reopened as The Tube, with Massive Attack still holding a stake in the establishment as before. It is still a classy affair with alot of sophistacation and style with a great drinks list and many well known DJ's playing it regularly.
For any collectors of Massive Attack or rare records in general, Gemm is a great (and overlooked by some) resource. It is a catalog of thousands of rare record shops online. It compiles a database so anyone can easily search through all these record shops at once for any potential rare records or memorabilia.
Esprit is probably the single biggest rare record and memorabilia shop in the world with offices in the UK, USA, South America and Japan. They specilize specfically in rare and hard to find items from your favourite musical acts and on Massive Attack, they have over 200 items. A thing about them however, is that while they maybe the only place you can find a rare promo item your after, their prices tend to be quite expensive.
HOPING stands for Hope and Optimism for Palestinians In the Next Generation. To encourage and improve all aspects of children’s lives HOPING provide grants to community projects working with children in Palestinian refugee camps. HOPING maintains a small scale administrative set-up in order to ensure that a large majority of funds they raise are given directly to community projects in refugee camps working with children. Most importantly, the recipients of grants are small community initiatives that provide immediate assistance, and will make a huge difference to their everyday lives. It is a worthy cause which Massive Attack have supported for some years accumulating at special benefit shows that were held in Birmingham and London in early 2007.
Reprieve provides frontline investigation and legal representation to prisoners denied justice by powerful governments across the world, especially those governments that should be upholding the highest standards when it comes to fair trials. Massive Attack are longtime supporters of Reprieve’s work, in so far as making Reprieve the charity partner for Massive Attack's Meltdown 2008 and the European tour also in 2008. The director of Reprieve, Clive Stafford-Smith had this to say about Massive Attack [Quote] - �Massive Attack�s uncompromising political principles have long been a beacon in an industry that often cares more about copyrights than human rights. We at Reprieve are absolutely thrilled to be working with them�.
The Melankolic label by Massive Attack was launched in September 1996, as their own personal pet project, which was to start a label to discover and mature artistic talent which had a similar style and direction to their own material. Many of the artists that were signed to Melankolic would be familar to Massive Attack fans like, Horace Andy, Alpha and Craig Armstong. [Quote] - David Balfour of Virgin Records about Melankolic - "Massive Attack wanted to start a label to release things other than their own work, which would have a similar style and direction to their own material." However since around 2003, sadly the Melankolic label quietly became defunct and it's artists were subsided into Virgin Records, with the label's last release being in 2002 with Craig Armstrong's As If To Nothing. As Melankolic is now defunct so is it's website but thankfully it is still achrived on the Internet Archive and this is where the link below will take you.
The UK Government wants to spend £76 billion of our money on renewing the UK's nuclear defence system, Trident. We don't think we should be spending billions on weapons of mass destruction and we don't believe we'll be any safer with a new generation of Trident. We don't want go quietly in to the darkness of a new nuclear age. This is another cause that both 3D and his old political ally Damon Albarn both support adamantly. The website also features four exclusive new unsettleing paintings from 3D depicting war and conflict.
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