All I've seen of Glastonbury is two Glasvegas songs; one Coldplay ('Yellow'); a few seconds of U2 (can't bear them); and tonight I happened to switch on and Tricky was on stage with Beyonce for a fragment of time, it was bizarre, he was like a wee scared boy miming, you couldn't actually hear him. I wanted more of him. I vaguely recall, some years ago, seeing him in a documentary where he was wearing a dress - or said he liked wearing dresses, my head is not clear - and I loved him, there was a poignancy. I must dig out Maxinquaye.
2 comments:
nmj,
thanks for alerting me to him...i had read about him, but didnt make an effort to find his music.
check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQyllm8Wwpg&feature=related
I first saw Tricky on The Word around 94, and was blown away. Him and Martina Topley-Bird dressed in formal evening wear (I think), with a band who looked like they'd been hired from a philharmonic orchestra - which was very possibly the case, they were middle-aged, wearing tuxedoes etc - and they tore through a blistering version of Public Enemy's "Black Steel".
The Beyonce cameo was curious, to say the least.
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