Acid Jazz Archive: Re: Massive Attack gig, yesterday, Amsterdam

---Jeroen van der Ent <vdent@tref.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> as promised, a review of the gig from last night. It started off
very well as I managed to replicate the tickets for the show in the
copyshop and made a big profit selling them( Thanks Paul!) as well as
being able to bring a bunch of friends. Funny, Mushroom and 3d came
walking to the club and my friend asked them if they wanted to buy
tickets for the show! ( he had recognised them) Later in the show 3d
asked the public how many people had been paying to get in and half of
the crowd rose their hands....
>
> On with the music First, there was a show by Alpha of the Melankolic
label, which I personally found to be very boring (a sort of Attica
Blues clone but of lower quality) and I was glad when Massive entered
the stage.
>
> They played about 18 songs, new ones and classics. The new songs are
very dark and they used a lot of guitar. I think they are moving away
from the hip hop-dub influence and are moving to a dub-rock side.
Mushroom did not have a lot of input in the whole show and looked as
if he spent the whole day in one of Amsterdam's famous coffeeshops.
One of the new songs was a very slow and brilliant dubtrack with
Horace (Andy) singing over it. The majority of the songs were intense
and the use of guitars wasn't annoying but adding to the atmosphere of
tension and darkness.
> I even started to compare their music with the music of Tool ( a
rock band who uses a lot of tension on their songs). The new female
vocalist (I didn't catch her name) did her first performance in front
of an audience and put down a great show, great voice, especially when
she combined it with Horace's, you can't compare her voice with Shara
Nelson's or Tracey Thorn's, hers is just different but good. I think
that the album will have to grow on you because the songs are not as
easily accessible as the songs from the other two albums. Besides of
the fact that 3d was shouting "thank you Paradiso" a couple of times
(while he was playing in the Milkyway) it was a great show. It was
good to hear the classics again and see Horace perform and having a
lot of fun on stage.
>
> There were some people filming the whole show for Spanish television
(I believe Canal Plus) so Spanish subscribers be on the lookout.
>
> cheers,
> Jeroen
>
> * It ain't in the horn, man! It's only me...* Charlie Parker
>
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as promised, a review of the gig from last night. It started off very well as I managed to replicate the tickets for the show in the copyshop and made a big profit selling them( Thanks Paul!) as well as being able to bring a bunch of friends. Funny, Mushroom and 3d came walking to the club and my friend asked them if they wanted to buy tickets for the show! ( he had recognised them) Later in the show 3d asked the public how many people had been paying to get in and half of the crowd rose their hands....

On with the music First, there was a show by Alpha of the Melankolic label, which I personally found to be very boring (a sort of Attica Blues clone but of lower quality) and I was glad when Massive entered the stage.

They played about 18 songs, new ones and classics. The new songs are very dark and they used a lot of guitar. I think they are moving away from the hip hop-dub influence and are moving to a dub-rock side. Mushroom did not have a lot of input in the whole show and looked as if he spent the whole day in one of Amsterdam's famous coffeeshops. One of the new songs was a very slow and brilliant dubtrack with Horace (Andy) singing over it. The majority of the songs were intense and the use of guitars wasn't annoying but adding to the atmosphere of tension and darkness.

I even started to compare their music with the music of Tool ( a rock band who uses a lot of tension on their songs). The new female vocalist (I didn't catch her name) did her first performance in front of an audience and put down a great show, great voice, especially when she combined it with Horace's, you can't compare her voice with Shara Nelson's or Tracey Thorn's, hers is just different but good. I think that the album will have to grow on you because the songs are not as easily accessible as the songs from the other two albums. Besides of the fact that 3d was shouting "thank you Paradiso" a couple of times (while he was playing in the Milkyway) it was a great show. It was good to hear the classics again and see Horace perform and having a lot of fun on stage.