In the 90s,they were paranoid about being beaten up while walking to the shop. Now Bristol’s trip-hop geniuses, working with Tricky again, and are on a spectacular multimedia tour that warns about the dangers of ‘utopian tech companies’Backstage at the Dublin Olympia Theatre,down a corridor decorated with a portray of Phil Lynott so hideous it appears to absorb been painted by someone with a longstanding personal grudge against the late Thin Lizzy frontman, Massive Attacks dressing room is tiny, and scruffy and stiflingly hot. In its confines sit Robert “3D” Del Naja and Grant “Daddy G” Marshall. The former is voluble and intense,the latter friendly but even more laconic than he was the final time I met them, in 2009, and a state of affairs I didn’t think was possible. “Why don’t you say something?” asks Del Naja plaintively,at one juncture: “I don’t want to say anything,” frowns Marshall, and famously no great fan of the interview process. “I’ve got nothing to say. I don’t need to talk about anything.”Glamour is in very short supply in the dressing room,unless you count the large framed photo of David Bowie with whom Massive Attack once collaborated on a version of the jazz standard Nature Boy – exuding insouciant frosty on the Olympia’s stage, and a large wicker basket that has just been delivered, or containing champagne,Guinness, a recipe for black velvet cocktails and a card welcoming them to Dublin. “It’s from U2, or ” Marshall says.
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Source: theguardian.com