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warpaint 2

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:59:00 +0100

robert

Meltdown Image

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:25:00 +0100

Posted by the machine.

warpaint 1

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:01:00 +0100

shots from the gallery

tour dates

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:59:00 +0100

posted by machine: 09/06/08 Saku Arena Tallinn, Estonia 11/06/08 Stereoleto Festival St. Petersburg, Russia 14/06/08 Meltdown London, UK 22/06/08 Meltdown London, UK 28/06/08 Glastonbury Festival Shepton Mallet, UK 01/07/08 Live at the Marquee Cork, Ireland 03/07/08 Westerpark Amsterdam, Netherlands 04/07/08 Eurockeenes Belfort, France 06/07/08 Heineken Opener Festival Gdynia, Poland 10/07/08 Krizanke Monastery Ljubljana, Slovenia 11/07/08 Balaton Sound Festival Balaton Lake, Hungary 13/07/08 Parkorman Istanbul, Turkey 15/07/08 Fly Beyond Athens Festival Athens, Greece 17/07/08 Carpisa Neapolis Festival 2008 Naples, Italy 18/07/08 Roma Rock Festival (Ex Fiesta) Rome, Italy 19/07/08 Pala De Andre Ravenna, Italy 20/07/08 Villa Pisani Padova, Italy 22/07/08 Festival de la Cite Carcassonne, France 23/07/08 Theatre Antique d'Arles Arles, France 24/07/08 Les Nuits de Fourviere Fourvieres, France 25/07/08 Paleo Festival Nyon Nyon, Switzerland 26/07/08 Cognac Blues Passions Festival Cognac, France 06/08/08 Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium 09/08/08 Sonne, Mond and Sterne Festival Saalburg, Germany 15/08/08 Ola Festival El Ejido. Almeria, Spain

more meltdown

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:59:00 +0100

posted by machine // George Clinton and P Funk have been added to the bill at meltdown 21st June. Peaches and Four Tet are also taking part in the Silent Disco programme. More soon.

meltdown line-up

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:32:00 +0100

posted by machine: This is the Meltdown line-up June 14th to 22nd Massive Attack 14th RFH / Gong 14th QEH / Yellow Magic Orchestra 14th RFH / Horace Andy + Johnny Clarke + Earl 16 + Prince Malachai 15th QEH / Reprieve Screening of Taxi To The Dark Side with post talk 15th Purcell Room / Screening of The Night James Brown Saved Boston 15th BFI / Elbow + Fleet Foxes 16th RFH / Vangelis' Bladerunner Score live by The Heritage Orchestra 17th RFH / Stiff Little Fingers + Mark Stewart and the Mafia + Adrian Sherwood 18th RFH / The Shortwave Set + Martina Topely-Bird 18th QEH / Grace Jones 19th RFH / Dalek + Cool Kids + Shape Of Broad Minds + Flying Lotus 19th QEH / Tom Tom Club + Gang Of Four 20th RFH / Terry Callier + Aloe Blacc 20th QEH / Tunng + Leila 21 QEH / Massive Attack 22nd RFH / Saxon Soundsystem + Guests 22nd RFH Ballroom / Plus Silent Disco nights. Films include: In Prison My Whole Life and Shane Meadows Somerstown. Volume - the interactive audio visual collaboration between Robert Del Naja, Neil Davidge and UVA will also appear. More announcements to come. Tickets go on sale Friday 25th through Southbank website and usual agents

local beauty

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:55:00 +0100

posted by robert

meltdown line-up

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:00:00 +0100

posted by machine the meltdown line-up will be announced this sunday in the observer newspaper and online here. tickets will go on sale on 24th april.

war paint

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:59:00 +0000

posted by robert del naja--Thanks to clive stafford smith for posting here- REPRIEVE are going to be an important part of the meltdown project.We are still unable to reveal anything on the line-up.But its getting exciting! meanwhile,if you happen to find yourself on charing cross rd next thursday night,and can fight your way past a swarm of smokers, tap me on the shoulder-check out my gleaming blue/gray studio tan-and have a look at the paintings and images from War Stories, collected together for the first time since santas ghetto at bethlehem last xmax. If I/m drunk enough,;ll probably spill the beans on meltdown and the album..and the tour..and the mighty BcFc's surge to glory...

Binyan Mohammed

Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:25:00 +0000

posted by clive stafford-smith

memo: from gitmo

If you were locked up in an American Secret Prison like Guantᮡmo Bay for six years or more, would music be high on the list of things youd miss in your solitary confinement? There would be plenty of other things you wouldnt have -- youd never see your family, perhaps rarely read a book but for the most part youd never be allowed to listen to your tunes. Theres one exception, of course: They torture you with their own favorite music.

Binyam Mohamed spent several months in the Dark Prison in Kabul, with the US blasting Eminem at him 24 hours as day. White City: I want to f**k the vice presidents wife doesnt seem like the message the Bush Administration (let alone VP Dick Cheney) would want to be sending out to its supposed enemies, but theres no accounting for taste. I thought it was funny (why dont they use country music? Id break much faster.) till Binyam told me this psychological torture was worse than the razor blade taken to his penis in a Morocco torture chamber. Physical pain is terrible but predictable, he explained as we talked in a Gitmo cell, but when you feel your sanity slipping away, thats exponentially worse. It made me think about it, and I know Id rather lose my hearing, my voice or my sight before Id want to lose my mind.

Its the 21st Century, not the Middle Ages. Its time to pull the plug on torture including torture by music.

REPRIEVE

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:59:00 +0000

posted by machine: clive stafford-smith from reprieve has just returned from guantanamo and he's going to blog here soon. for information on ghost prisoners , extraordinary rendition and black-site prisons go to: reprieve.org.uk

blanksy

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:59:00 +0000

posted by Robert Del Naja>Cannot reveal anthing of use here today.Had a midweekend in Glasgow last WEd/THur and have pruned away large parts of my brain> then spent the actual weekend with the coolest Guy of Garvey on another co/writing mission..interesting shit indeed! Got a couple of pictures from a recent session at 100 suns studios down our way, I will have to dig em out. Got nothing to say about the album today! I am not obliged to discuss Meltdown or the tour..could do better..in fact blogging feels a little like publishing crap egocentric little diary entries-how nice!

Film Scores

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Posted by the Machine:
Robert Del Naja and Neil Davidge have recently produced the scores
for three films that will be released this year.
Trouble The Water recently won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance
Film Festival.
More news on the release dates for these films here soon.

In Prison My Whole Life
http://www.myspace.com/inprisonmywholelife

Trouble The Water
http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com/

Battle In Seattle
http://myspace.com/battleinseattlemovie

MELTDOWN

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:28:00 +0000

Posted by Robert Del Naja.Meltdown is a beautiful daydream-drawing up a list of the artists you would most love to be with in the same place with during one week in summer. plans are being hatched every minute. We will try and bring a very visual element to the party as well as a social/political depth.What follows is a couple of months of ducking and dodging line up questions,closing in on a firm album shape and hassling and haranguing super icons and peers to perform.. legend to agent-"massive who?"

Massive Attack Curate Meltdown

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Posted by Machine:
Massive Attack will be curating the Meltdown Festival which runs from
15th - 22nd June on London's Southbank.
Massive will play during the festival and there will be around 30
other shows, installations and films over the week.
More news on Meltdown including line-ups and ticket information will
be released on this site, so check back soon.

Massive Attack Play Festivals

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:16:00 +0000

Posted by the Machine:
Massive Attack will be playing a series of European and headline
shows this summer.
For more details check back soon