Category : Cat Eng
10 Mar 10
Elephants or Ivory?
This weekend, 13th March, two African governments will lobby the UN to weaken the ban on ivory trading, which could lead to elephant populations being wiped out and, ultimately, extinction for the whole species. Each year over 30,000 elephants are killed by poachers for ivory. If Tanzania and Zambia are successful in exploiting the loophole, [...]
04 Mar 10
Saturday Come Slow Film
A small still from Adam and Olly’s film for Saturday Come Slow.
The film was shot in the anechoic chamber at Cambridge University last month and will be finished next week.
01 Mar 10
Robert’s Photo Blog no.12
Robert is trapped in LA with an ear infection…
la strip…
un dia…
wet behind the ears…
lurid lane…
poster boy…
m4 skies…
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 [...]
29 Jan 10
Heligoland special: Guardian Music Weekly podcast
This month’s Guardian Music Weekly podcast has a special feature on Heligoland, with tracks from the upcoming album plus a new interview with Robert; you can stream or download it HERE…
Photograph by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
28 Jan 10
Heligoland Remix EP now on Facebook
The Heligoland Remix EP is now streaming exclusively on Facebook, featuring remixes by Gui Boratto, Tim Goldsworthy, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi, She Is Danger and Breakage. To listen to the tracks, click HERE…
(You have to be signed in to Facebook and will be given the option to join Massive Attack’s fanpage in order to [...]
26 Jan 10
Heligoland artwork blog
Taken during one of the artwork sessions at our studio, these images show just some of the wealth of content we’ll go through and edit in the coming weeks: Art, paintings, sketches, text as well imagery from the tour. It’s a lengthy process deciding what should stay and what gets rejected… Tom Hingston
Images of the [...]
22 Jan 10
Listen to ‘Girl I Love You’ (She Is Danger Remix)
You can now listen to the She Is Danger remix of Girl I Love You, featuring Horace Andy, by streaming it from the media player on the main page…
The track is also available as a free download from RCRDLBL.
19 Jan 10
iTunes LP pre-order available now
This is a new format which has 6 additional tracks – two which are only available on iTunes but it also has exclusive art.
On ‘LP’ there will be an enhanced version of the standard artwork plus new works and photos not available anywhere else.
Pre-order Heligoland: iTunes Deluxe Edition
18 Jan 10
Heligoland formats
Heligoland is available to pre-order on iTunes, amazon, play.com, hmv and everywhere internationally.
iTunes will release the deluxe ‘LP’ version and there are bonus tracks on the digital formats. A special triple vinyl / cd format with additional art will also be available – more details tomorrow.
