Del Naja: Last News

Massive Attack have added a huge Manchester show to their 2025 tour plans – check out details below.The Bristol trip-hop duo – comprising of Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja and Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall – are set to headline the Co-op Live arena on June 5.Pre-sale tickets are available from 10am on Wednesday March 5, and you can sign up to access those here. Alternatively, tickets go on general sale here this Friday (March 7) at 10am.Their newest date falls the day before they top the bill at the inaugural LIDO festival in London’s Victoria Park on June 6.

Massive Attack have said they hope their upcoming climate change concert will improve the music industry, stressing that “there’s only one planet”.The trip-hop legends are preparing for their ‘Act 1.5’ show at Clifton Downs in Bristol on Sunday (August 25), an all-day, “large-scale climate action accelerator event” to celebrate 25 years of climate activism for the band.It will be Massive Attack’s first UK performance in five years, and they will be joined by the likes of Killer Mike, Lankum, Sam Morton and the Wild Bunch’s DJ Milo. Find any remaining tickets here.The show is designed to be the lowest-carbon concert of its kind and scale ever put together, and they hope it will provide a model for the rest of the live music industry to take forward.In a new interview with the BBC, the band have underlined why they feel the cause is so fundamentally important.

Massive Attack have shared the details of their ‘Act 1.5’ show at Bristol Downs and its measures to reduce emissions.Details of the homecoming gig were first shared in December, when the trip-hop collective confirmed that 2024 would see them perform at an all-day “large-scale climate action accelerator event” – celebrating 25 years of climate activism for the band.The gig will take place on August 25 at Clifton Downs in Bristol, and will mark the first performance that Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja and Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall have played on UK soil in five years. The likes of Killer Mike, Lankum, Sam Morton and the Wild Bunch’s DJ Milo are also set to perform at the gig.

Massive Attack will play their first live show since 2019 next summer, with the event described as a "large-scale climate action accelerator event" and "the lowest carbon show of its size ever staged" by the group. The show will take place on August 25 at Clifton Downs in Bristol, England.

Massive Attack have announced a huge show set to take place in Dublin this summer, which will follow several gigs across Europe.The trip-hop collective – comprised of Robert “3D” Del Naja, Adrian “Tricky” Thaws and Grant “Daddy G” Marshall – will begin their summer itinerary at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival at the start of June.After visiting festivals and venues in Norway, Italy, Germany and France, the group will arrive in Dublin for a massive headline gig at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on August 28.Tickets for the show will go on general sale at 10am on Friday (February 18) and will be available to purchase here. In November, Massive Attack helped launch a campaign to expose corporate “greenwashing” at COP26. Del Naja teamed up with green industrialist Dale Vince and artist Bill Posters to reveal the practice, which involves companies giving a false impression or providing misleading information about how environmentally sound their products are.“The general public are very much aware of the harm caused by the disinformation that is propagated via social media platforms,” Del Naja said at the time.

Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja has made a short film for the Legacy Of War Foundation’s new No More Wars campaign, which aims to highlight the costs of the 20 years of war that followed the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.The first in a series of collaborations with photographer and Legacy Of War founder Giles Duley, Del Naja’s film – for which he has also composed new music – focusses on the stories of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and the work of the Italian NGO Emergency at their Surgical Centre For Victims Of War in Kabul.“Now is the moment to reflect on 20 years of failed western intervention and say – no more war”, says Duley. “Rather, let’s look to a more nurturing foreign policy that increases foreign aid.