I DJ like someone taking an LP to a party – I play the music I like. I’ve only been out to a couple of clubs there. How much has Berlin’s club scene inspired you musically? Liam_Cagney Hearing you spin Japan’s Ghosts in that industrial hall was memorable. I enjoyed your DJ set on New Year’s at Berghain a few years ago. I’ve never had writer’s block in my life. I don’t know what the lyrics are about either. What is it about and how did it come about? mesm In my opinion Ponderosa is the greatest piece of music of the 90s. I was smoking a spliff and mentioned that I wanted to work with her and Chris goes: “Oh that’s Kate’s house.” Jaffe wanted to pull in and Chris is going: “Not now Jaffe!” Jaffe was all set to knock on the front door! Whatever happened to that potential Kate Bush collaboration? blueblueelectricblueĬhris Blackwell, Jaffe and I were driving. Photograph: Xavi Torrent/Redferns/Getty Images In the dark … Tricky performing in Barcelona in 2015. I mean, Bob Marley is next level, so that was a bit too much for me. In all the years we hung out, he never once asked “How many albums are you selling?” Once we were having dinner with Rita Marley and she told me: “You remind me of Bob.” It’s a beautiful thing to say but made me a bit uncomfortable. I haven’t seen him for a few years but he is very special in my life. Have you got any good ones about him? McScootikinsĬhris is different. Your Island Records boss Chris Blackwell’s recent autobiography The Islander didn’t feature any Tricky anecdotes. I’d like to celebrate this man and I need to cover some of his songs. At some point, I’m going to do a Terry covers EP. I’d say we felt like family to each other. With Terry dying, I feel like part of my growing up has been taken away. Once he died, I couldn’t listen to the Specials, like I still can’t look at a photograph of my daughter. I always knew I’d meet him because I was such a fan. Tell me about your friendship with Terry Hall – Poems, on Nearly God, is a dream pairing of musicians. I brought these little lamps on stage and someone from PJ’s band wrote on the poster under my name: “Lights by Ikea.” We played in darkness because I was shitting myself. I can’t think of a worse person to have to go on before because she is so good. The next thing I know I’m on tour with PJ Harvey. I didn’t understand how you could do an electronic album on stage, but my manager Debbie put together a band for me. I was less nervous going to prison than getting on that stage, because playing live was never part of my plan. What was it like to take your music out on to a big stage at a rock venue? TheSurvivalBag You seemed nervous but the audience were encouraging. I think it was one of your first live gigs with a band and the first night of the tour. I saw you supporting PJ Harvey at the Barrowland in Glasgow in 1995. Then he looks at my mouth and goes: “He’s eating a fucking Twix!” So he was doing his lines and watching me. I don’t know about movies, right? I was in the scene, but I wasn’t being filmed. I heard that Gary Oldman was annoyed with you during the shoot for The Fifth Element because while in character and filming a particularly difficult scene you came on set eating a Twix. It’s made me less anti-major labels.Īwkward … Tricky appears on stage with Beyoncé at the 2011 Glastonbury festival. Universal made me enthusiastic about the Maxinquaye Reincarnated reissue because they just let me work, and they’ve released my reworkings, which is amazing because these songs are not commercial vehicles. If I listen to it now, it sounds dated, but if you don’t think your older music sounds dated, you’re standing still. You’ve just got to wait.” Now I’ve done 16 albums and when young kids come to my shows, the stuff they talk to me about is Angels or Pre-Millennium Tension, not Maxinquaye. Years ago, when I was getting frustrated that some people didn’t understand it because it went coffee-table, someone told me: “Tricky, people will catch up with you. I can understand why it did what it did at the time because there was nothing around like it. Having revisited the album for its upcoming deluxe reissue, what are your feelings about it now? VerulamiumParkRanger You have previously asserted that Maxinquaye was ruined by its success and turned into a “coffee-table album”.
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