Here’s the entire set list:īaby It’s You (Shirelles cover) with Horace Andy on vocals Then all of a sudden Massive Attack was playing it. Then via the amazing Bruce Springsteen live version that I discovered. My favorites being Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream” – a song that sort of magically appeared in my life as a recurring theme in the last 3 years. In addition to providing a lot of instrumental work to support the mostly graphic and news footage messaging of the film, the band played lots of covers. It was beautifully surreal and kept the packed house enraptured for the duration of the show. Sometimes singers would appear in a small halo against a film backdrop, other times they’d be singing at the foot oaf a massive projection of themselves. Other times creative lighting would bring some or all members to the forefront. At times they were completely obscured by imagery. Massive Attack was there in full force, set up behind the screens on the western end of the room. The airplane hanger sized space of the Armory had been emptied and ringed with massive projection screens. He’s perhaps best known for his 1992 debut “Pandora’s Box” and his 2002 “Century of the Self”, a damnation of advertising and public relations as it relates to Freud. The photos you see here were stolen from a various locales on the wold wide interwebz.Īdam Curtis is a British documentary film maker known for his political treatises illuminating the ills of modern society, media, politics, and culture. Alison and I had the immense pleasure of attending the Adam Curtis VS Massive Attack event at the NYC Park Avenue Armory.
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