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15 Feb 22

Massive Attack to perform at Royal Hospital Kilmainham this August

Massive Attack are officially returning to Dublin this summer.

Massive Attack have announced a major Dublin show at Royal Hospital Kilmainham, due to take place on Sunday, August 28th.

Tickets priced at €59.50, including booking fees, will go on general sale at 10am this Friday, 18th February 2022 from Ticketmaster.

The English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol, featuring Robert "3D" Del Naja, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall. The band currently consists of Del Naja, Thaws and Marshall, with Shara Nelson and Horace Andy as guest vocalists.

To date, Massive Attack have released five studio albums that have sold over 13 million copies worldwide. The debut Massive Attack album Blue Lines was released in 1991, with the single 'Unfinished Sympathy' climbing up the charts. 1998's Mezzanine (containing the top 10 single 'Teardrop') and 2003's 100th Window charted in the UK at number one.

Massive Attack started as a spin-off production group in 1988, with the independently released song, 'Any Love', sung by falsetto-voiced singer-songwriter Carlton McCarthy/ With support from Neneh Cherry, they signed to Circa Records in 1990 — committing to deliver six studio albums and a "best of" compilation. Circa became a subsidiary of Virgin Records, which in turn was acquired by EMI.

The band played Electric Picnic back in 2018 and have blasted the 3Arena on multiple occasions, with the frontman speaking to Stuart Clark candidly a few years ago.

“Daddy G saw The Clash on the White Riot tour but he’d never really heard The Pop Group or Wire or the Gang Of Four, so I lent him a load of my records,” Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja told Hot Press that year, swapping punky tales one afternoon backstage at the RDS where they were supporting Radiohead. G and him were swearing allegiance to the guitar after a review that accused them of straying into Fleetwood Mac/Eagles dinner party music territory with their then new album, Protection.

“I have to say that the idea of it being brought out with the After Eights is a bit fucking disconcerting,” he winced. “I know I’m being guilty of reverse snobbery but I don’t want our records in the same collection as Rumours and Hotel California. Physical Graffiti and Animals, maybe, but not those two!”