The English electronic music will begin their North America trip in San Diego on September 1st, and they will wrap the tour in New York with two shows on September 26th and 27th in Radio City Music Hall.

The band also announced that proceeds from Mezzanine Anniversary tour merchandise will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

“As the ‘Mezzanine XXI’ show contains some explicit material from the war in Iraq, the band felt it was important to donate to Medecins Sans Frontieres who continue to be active in the region.” – said the “Teardrop” duo in a press release.

Released in 1998, Mezzanine is the band’s commercially most successful album to date, having topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom while breaking into top 10 in 12 other countries. It also received significant critical acclaim by the critics.

Massive Attack’s most recent studio release came in 2010 with the album Heligoland.

Here is the full list of rescheduled dates for North America Mezzanine Anniversary Tour.

09-01 San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater
09-03 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-04 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-05 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-07 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
09-10 Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
09-11 Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre
09-12 Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
09-14 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
09-17 Toronto, Ontario – Sony Centre
09-20 Philadelphia, PA – Metropolitan Opera House
09-21 Boston, MA – Boch Center
09-24 Washington, DC – The Anthem
09-26 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
09-27 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall

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Massive Attack is taking their iconic album Mezzanine on tour over 21 years after its release in 2019. Their tour is taking the album round the world but in a superb interview with The Guardian, Robert Del Naja has admitted that it will not be a nostalgia tour.

Del Naja confessed: “I don’t think I’ve got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential…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.”

“I’m happy for it to be unpredictable,” he added later in the interview. “That’s the point. There’s no sort of bants, no chatting because you kind of felt… Well, you wouldn’t go to a play and the actors turn around and say: ‘Are you all right?’ And there has to be some personal creative risk attached where you don’t know what’s going to happen. It should be disorienting for us and the audience otherwise…”

Adam Curtis interjects; “Gigs have become very formulaic these days. Not just gigs but all of culture – and that’s the challenge. The way you make people look again is by finding a different sort of image. And so the overall aim is to show how over the past 20 years, we’ve gone into a very static, repetitive world that surrounds us with the same images that keep us from really looking.”

Massive Attack will play at the 02 in London on Friday 22nd Feb before heading to Montreal, Canada March 11.

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The English electronic music will begin their North America trip in San Diego on September 1st, and they will wrap the tour in New York with two shows on September 26th and 27th in Radio City Music Hall.

The band also announced that proceeds from Mezzanine Anniversary tour merchandise will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

“As the ‘Mezzanine XXI’ show contains some explicit material from the war in Iraq, the band felt it was important to donate to Medecins Sans Frontieres who continue to be active in the region.” – said the “Teardrop” duo in a press release.

Released in 1998, Mezzanine is the band’s commercially most successful album to date, having topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom while breaking into top 10 in 12 other countries. It also received significant critical acclaim by the critics.

Massive Attack’s most recent studio release came in 2010 with the album Heligoland.

Here is the full list of rescheduled dates for North America Mezzanine Anniversary Tour.

09-01 San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater
09-03 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-04 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-05 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
09-07 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
09-10 Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
09-11 Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre
09-12 Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple
09-14 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
09-17 Toronto, Ontario – Sony Centre
09-20 Philadelphia, PA – Metropolitan Opera House
09-21 Boston, MA – Boch Center
09-24 Washington, DC – The Anthem
09-26 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
09-27 New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall

The post Massive Attack Announce Rescheduled Dates for North America Tour appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

Massive Attack is taking their iconic album Mezzanine on tour over 21 years after its release in 2019. Their tour is taking the album round the world but in a superb interview with The Guardian, Robert Del Naja has admitted that it will not be a nostalgia tour.

Del Naja confessed: “I don’t think I’ve got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential…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.”

“I’m happy for it to be unpredictable,” he added later in the interview. “That’s the point. There’s no sort of bants, no chatting because you kind of felt… Well, you wouldn’t go to a play and the actors turn around and say: ‘Are you all right?’ And there has to be some personal creative risk attached where you don’t know what’s going to happen. It should be disorienting for us and the audience otherwise…”

Adam Curtis interjects; “Gigs have become very formulaic these days. Not just gigs but all of culture – and that’s the challenge. The way you make people look again is by finding a different sort of image. And so the overall aim is to show how over the past 20 years, we’ve gone into a very static, repetitive world that surrounds us with the same images that keep us from really looking.”

Massive Attack will play at the 02 in London on Friday 22nd Feb before heading to Montreal, Canada March 11.

The post Massive Attack Would Rather Be “Unpredictable” Than Have A Nostalgia Tour appeared first on Hot Pop Today.