Massive Attack (live in Seattle)
 

Hey y'all,

I'm new to the forum but happy to have found such a fresh community of electronic music lovers.

I'm headed to see Massive Attack on 4/26 at the Paramount here in Seattle and was wondering if anyone knows what to expect. I'm guessing it will be a *greatest hits* kinda thing...

I really like the music on 100th Window although I could do w/o Sinead (don't get me wrong, her first 2 solo albums are classics) so I'm really looking forward to this show however it goes...

Saw the Mezzanine tour years back at the same venue and it was truly awesome...

BxSci

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I'm going to see them at the Lowlands festival too, and I too am curious at how they will sound like... They can play anything, but I would especially like to hear Butterfly Caught. That would be ace!

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Welcome to the board bxsci.

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I had no idea about this show. I might have to make the trip up from Portland.

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i bet they'll be playing some sort of best of, probably "unfinished sympathy", "teardrop", "karmacoma" etc. "protection", if you're lucky and maybe the new, excellent, single "live with me".

when i saw them they played lots of stuff from the 100th Window album, but of course it was the 100th window tour...

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thanks for the welcome...

I will post a full report after the show for anyone interested. I noticed that the only 2 U.S. dates (besides Cochella) are in Seattle and Denver. I wonder what the rationale for that was.

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RUMOR HAS IT:

All original album vocalists will be performing with The Massive. That may be the reasoning behind the limited dates, and since they were set to play Cochella a few dates for other locations were set. My question would be why no San Fran date?

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Why no San Fran, but also LA, esp. if that RUMOR turns out to have some veracity to it.

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Hey grady, did you get my message?

And I'm guessing the cost to have all these artists travel to so many different locations. Then again, don't all funds received by The Massive go to various charities now??

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Was it a PM? If so, I haven't got it yet.

As far as funds received by the Massive going to charities, I'm not entirely sure on that one. Time to go do some researching.

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Please share what happens!

MA are one of the few bands i really want to see before i die.

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Please share what happens, anyone who attends the show tomorrow night!

I was planning to go and then was lucky enough to come down with mono about a week and a half ago. FUCKING VIRUS! I was even going to try and get a ticket to see Tool up in Seattle on May 2nd.

Oh well.

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yes, I am very much looking forward to this show. will post a full report tomorrow...

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Massive returning to the US in September. As of now, they will playing ACL (Texas, fuck yeah) and the Hollywood Bowl.

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does anyone really care about Massive Attack anymore? Hasn't everything they've released in the last 10 years been shit? well, i still pay to see newOrder so my reasoning is flawed. and i didn't buy tickets but from what i hear, it's not even sold out yet.

tell me how wack it was in the morning.

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BLD get off your HIGH horse homie and don't get mad that you missed one of the best shows of the year...

Massive were excellent, they played a couple of new songs, and most of the material they performed was from Mezzanine and 100th Window, which made me very happy. The stage/light show was about what it was 8 years ago, which = dope.

Anyway, their combo of the creepy and the sublime and of organic and synthetic textures are moving live.

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Yeah, I'm sorry, but all this slagging of Massive Attack's recent stuff is bullshit. It's trend related, it's people who gave 100th Window a couple of listens and put it aside. ALL the songs 3-d sings on that album are wonderful, sublime pieces of songwriting. And Mezzanine is better than that.

Seriously, Future Proof, Butterfly Caught, Small Time Shot Away, Antistar are fucking killer. You don't like it? Fine. But this shit like, "Oh who cares about them anymore?" or Pitchfork calling Butterfly Caught "embarassing" (not their word, I think, can't be bothered to check) is idiotic.

But, I forget, BLD is the authority on all music.

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absolutely agree

the only dud on the album is "Prayer for England"

it's the only cohesive ALBUM by MA. Like, none of the previous ones really 'gel' well together. There's always the sense of them tacking on an extra song here and there

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True.

I really like 100th Window and tend to listen to it quite a lot lately, because I'm just in that mood. Butterfly Caught is actually REALLY FUCKING good. That beat is simple but fucking amazing.

I like it how he used a lot of violins, but in a very good way, and actually really fitting in the electronic mood of the album.

Anyway. I'm gonna see Massive Attack on Lowlands Festival in August. Looking forward.

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The strings at the end of Butterfly Caught should go on forever.