COMING ON RAILS: Robert «3D» Del Naja (TV) and Grant «Daddy G» Marshall in Massive Attack. Photo: PiP
The legendary Bristol band promises to lead the way for environmentally friendly concert operations. In the summer, they will do it in Oslo.
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– In the context of a crisis, “business as usual” is unacceptable, reported the band’s Robert Del Naja already in 2019.
Then Massive Attack announced a collaboration with a climate research center to map the carbon footprint of the band’s tour cycle.
This is to find out how they themselves and industry colleagues can tour more climate-friendly.
Due to the pandemic, however, it has taken time to test this in practice.
– Fossil-free
The band was at the Oslo festival Piknik i Parken’s program in both 2020 and 2021, but both festivals were cancelled.
Now organizer Peer Osmundsvaag tells VG that Massive Attack will come to the festival in Sofienbergparken on Grünerløkka on 13 June 2024.
– We look forward to serving their iconic music in the park, says Osmundsvaag.
– And of course they travel fossil-free by train to and from Oslo. We look forward to working with them and exchanging opportunities and initiatives.
Visitors are climate changers
Recently, Massive Attack announced their first concert in their hometown of Bristol in five years, in August next year. Solar cells will provide the electricity there.
The organizers there tell accordingly BBC that they are working to reduce the most polluting factor for outdoor concerts: visiting audiences.
No big problem in Sofienbergparken, according to Osmundsvaag, who refers to a report for the 2022 edition of Picnic in the Park.
– 83 per cent of our audience cycle, walk or take public transport. And of course we have green electricity.
The festival has also secured a younger British rap star name: Stormzy, who plays at PiP on 15 June.
VISUAL FESTIVAL: Massive Attack on Øya in 2016. Photo: Torstein Bøe / NTB
Massive Attack last played in Norway at the Øya Festival in 2016. The band was among the biggest British style creators of the nineties.
With the albums “Blue Lines” (1991) and “Protection” (1994), they almost single-handedly laid the foundations for what was called trip hoptrip hop. Atmospheric, hip hop-inspired club music at a leisurely pace, very popular in the latter half of the nineties.
In 1998, they incorporated more guitar and rock into the expression, and sold large quantities of the album “Mezzanine”, which went to second place on the VG-lista and spent 29 weeks on the Top 40.
That same year they played at Rockefeller in May, and advanced to Oslo Spektrum five months later.
Eventually they also played at the Quartfestivalen in Kristiansand and the Hovefestivalen in Arendal.
The guitarist on “Mezzanine” and several subsequent tours, Angelo Bruschini, died in October.
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Published: 18.12.23 at 22:07
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