{"id":41055,"date":"2024-08-23T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/band-hope-clifton-down-gig-will-change-music-industry\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T05:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:00:27","slug":"band-hope-clifton-down-gig-will-change-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/band-hope-clifton-down-gig-will-change-music-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Band hope Clifton Down gig will change music industry"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Massive Attack’s Daddy G and 3D are playing their first home town show for five years<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Massive Attack helped redefine British music in the 1990s. Now the seminal Bristol band are trying to change the music industry’s record on climate action, which they say has been stuck for too long.<\/b><\/p>\n

Massive Attack hope their fans won’t notice much unusual about their mini-festival this weekend – their first show in their home city for five years.<\/p>\n

“If it goes according to plan, it will just feel like a normal gig to most people,” band member Robert Del Naja says.<\/p>\n

“No-one will know the difference. They will come to the gig, it will rain, there will be great music, it will be a visual spectacle, they’ll leave and they\u2019re happy.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The band have been travelling to their summer European tour dates by train and ferry<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Fans might spot a few changes from other gigs, though. <\/p>\n

All the food will be vegan. All the loos will be compostable. If they’re really observant, people might spot (electric) vans containing large batteries occasionally topping up other large batteries around the site.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest difference will not be in the show but outside. <\/p>\n

There’s no car park. <\/p>\n

Instead, the 34,000 attendees are strongly encouraged to walk, cycle or get public transport – including on one of five special trains laid on to take people back across the south-west at the end of the bank holiday Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Massive Attack say the show will be the lowest-carbon concert of its scale ever held, and want it to provide a template for the rest of the live music industry to follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis experiment, by its very virtue of being here, is hopefully going to create some activity,” Del Naja says. \u201cAnd it’s a sector which has a lot to say about climate change, but unfortunately it’s not doing much about it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Albums released the acclaimed albums Blue Lines, Protection and Mezanine in the 1990s<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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In the 90s, Massive Attack led a wave of delirious downbeat dance music dubbed trip-hop in an area that saw their two biggest hits – Unfinished Sympathy and Teardrop. Back then, few people gave serious thought to the environmental impact of touring.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re very aware of the polluting we’ve done, which is why we’re doing this.”<\/p>\n

Del Naja, also known as 3D, is the driving force behind the group\u2019s drive to be as sustainable as possible. Bandmate Grant Marshall, or Daddy G, is fully on board too.<\/p>\n

Why do they feel so strongly? \u201cIt\u2019s simple,\u201d Marshall says. \u201cIt’s because there’s only one planet, and we’ve got to try and save it.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody knows what’s going on, and if we can do our bit to try and save something for the future, then it seems like a no brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bristol concert comes five years after Massive Attack commissioned the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research to write a report setting out a roadmap for \u201csuper low carbon live music\u201d<\/a>. They are now attempting to put as much of that as possible into practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Other measures being taken include:<\/p>\n