Twenty-one years since the release of Mezzanine, their most successful album, Massive Attack are taking it on tour - with films. The band and their visuals director, Adam Curtis, tell us whyRobert del Naja is in no mood to talk about the past. Which is tricky, because as the force behind Massive Attack´s current live spectacle (a reconfigured outing for their 1998 album Mezzanine), a degree of unpicking old memories might seem unavoidable. Still, sitting backstage in the clinical dressing room of an Amsterdam concert hall, each of us angled at either end of a sofa an hour before he´s due on stage, Del Naja considers his unease with historical rehashing.`I don´t think I´ve got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential. When you´re working in the way we do, taking things from the past and making them new, making collages...` He pauses. `I stopped feeling nostalgia for the moment because I imagine myself looking back on it from the future, which really freaks me out. I get this vertigo where I´m not thinking about the past, I´m thinking about how I´m going to feel in 10 years´ time.` Nostalgia isn´t as good as it used to be, I joke. Del Naja rubs a hand forwards through his hair. Continue reading...
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