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As part of the collective, he helped arrange sound systems around Bristol's club scene, and performed under a stage name derived from "Tricky Kid", the nickname given to him in a street gang as a youth.
Apr 18, 2012 · Seventeen years ago, Maxinquaye made Tricky an unlikely pop star, and made him angry and unhappy. Now, though, he and Martina Topley-Bird are ready to revisit it
Feb 20, 2024 · Named poignantly for his late mother, and featuring references both to Rastafarianism and to being a “weeping wino,” Maxinquaye was also filled with nods to Tricky’s contemporaries, both in ...
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Oct 20, 2023 · The Bristol-born artist (real name Adrian Thaws) is known for co-founding Massive Attack, who spear-headed the ‘trip-hop’ scene along with Portishead and Tricky himself. He released his debut...
Mar 27, 2022 · It was Mark Stewart, the Bristol musician who founded the Pop Group and lived with Tricky in the 1990s, who suggested that Tricky should try to “blag” money from Massive Attack’s managers to...
Feb 20, 2015 · 25 Years On: Tricky’s Maxinquaye Revisited. David Bennun interviewed Tricky several times for Melody Maker in the 1990s and reviewed Maxinquaye on its release. He assesses how his relationship to this landmark album has changed over the intervening decades. For a long time, I didn’t listen to it.
Aug 3, 2020 · Tricky, real name Adrian Thaws, had generated a level of fascination as a member of Massive Attack, having appeared on the first two albums. But when Maxinquaye was released nearly 30 years ago ...
