Archive for February, 2010
27 Feb 10
KCRW Guest DJs
Robert and Grant recently appeared on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic in Los Angeles with an interview and guest playlist selection. You can listen to the show at KCRW.
18 Feb 10
Radio One Maida Vale Session
Zane Lowe’s Radio One show yesterday featured Massive Attack in session from Maida Vale studios, performing Babel and Splitting The Atom, plus an interview with Robert about touring the new album, Heligoland.
You can listen to the session HERE… (starts around 1:09).
15 Feb 10
Robin Hood Tax / No Bonus for RBS campaigns
The Robin Hood Tax is a new campaign aimed at tackling global poverty and climate change by placing a 0.05% tax on speculative bank transactions; by doing this, billions of pounds could be raised to help others. Read more about it HERE.
No Bonus For RBS is Billy Bragg’s campaign to cap excessive RBS bonuses; these [...]
12 Feb 10
Hammersmith Apollo
Live at Hammersmith Apollo, 11th Feb 2010; in aid of the HOPING Foundation…
Heligoland released today
Heligoland is released today, available on three different fomats: CD (available everywhere), an iTunes Deluxe Edition (featuring six extra tracks and exclusive art) and an exquisite deluxe vinyl edition from Vinyl Factory: triple vinyl with extra tracks, a CD of the album and an exclusive 12″ book of artwork by 3D, all housed in a [...]
06 Feb 10
‘Art of Darkness’ Guardian feature
The Guardian article ‘Massive Attack’s art of darkness‘ features an interview with Robert discussing artistic collaborations throughout their career, from early graffiti with Goldie to this year’s ‘pop-up’ tour galleries…
04 Feb 10
Splitting The Atom film by Edouard Salier
Directed by Edouard Salier; produced by Scream Park; post-production by Digital District…
03 Feb 10
Heligoland: deluxe vinyl / CD format
The deluxe format will be available from next week: triple heavyweight vinyl containing Heligoland and exclusive remixes plus a CD of the LP.
The 12″ book has original art by 3D and the cover is a one-off black glitter design.
This is the only physical format that will feature all the art and looks beautiful.
It can be [...]
Heligoland ‘Tweatre’
Heligoland ‘Tweatre’, an exclusive Twitter platform which allows you to view the specially-commissioned short films that complement tracks from Heligoland, has now launched. You can currently watch films for Splitting The Atom, Paradise Circus and Flat Of The Blade, and directly ‘tweet’ your thoughts about them. More films to follow shortly…
01 Feb 10
Heligoland: first listen on 6Music today
Today, for the first time anywhere, you can hear the entirety of Heligoland as part of 6 Music’s Album of the Day; Steve Lamacq will also be talking to Massive Attack about the making of the album from 4pm.
If you missed it you can listen again on the 6 Music Website or download the free [...]
