Mary Anne Hobbs - In Conversation With & Playlist From Robert Del Naja

MARY ANNE HOBBS - IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT DEL NAJA FROM MASSIVE ATTACK
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th November 2024

Mary Anne is in conversation with Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, about The Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator, a weekend of live music and events taking place in the city from 28th - 30th November, in which they are performing alongside IDLES and Nile Rogers. The Liverpool concerts are a celebration of the city being named the world's first UN Accelerator City for climate action, promoting sustainability in music.

Killer Mike (feat. Future, André 3000 & Eryn Allen Kane) - Scientists & Engineers [Loma Vista]
Pinch - Qawwali [Planet Mu]
IDLES - Mother (6 Music Session, 02 June 2017)
Björk (feat. Thom Yorke) - Náttúra [Polydor]
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) [Motown]
Objekt - Worm Dance [Kapsela]
Massive Attack - Risingson [Virgin]
Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught (Version Point Five) [Virgin]
Massive Attack - Angel (Blur Remix) [Virgin]
Massive Attack - Future Proof
Massive Attack (feat. Shara Nelson) - Safe From Harm (Just A Dub) [Circa]
Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn - Protection (The Eno Mix) [Circa]
Massive Attack (feat. Tunde Adebimpe) - Pray For Rain [Virgin]
Massive Attack - Teardrop (Mad Professor Mazaruni Vocal Mix)

MARY ANNE HOBBS - ROBERT DEL NAJA PLAYLIST
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 29th November 2024

Ahead of their Act 1.5 Climate Action Accelerator event in Liverpool Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack compiles a playlist including stunning collaborations, rarities & remixes of the band including tracks with Young Fathers, Sinead O'Connor, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mos Def.

Massive Attack & Mad Professor - Karmacoma (Bumper Ball Dub) [Virgin]
3D & Young Fathers - Give [Unreleased]
Massive Attack (feat. Guy Garvey) - Fatalism (Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi Remix) [Virgin]
Massive Attack (feat. Terry Callier) - Live With Me (Stripped Back) [Virgin]
3D On Jupiter - 3D On Jupiter (Main Mix) [Battle Box]
Massive Attack (feat. Sinéad O'Connor) - What Your Soul Sings (EP Remix) [Unreleased]
Massive Attack (feat. Martina Topley‐Bird) - Psyche (Fever Ray Remix) [Unreleased]
Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps (Manic Street Preachers Mix) [Circa]
Massive Attack (feat. Yasiin Bey) - I Against I [Virgin]
Massive Attack - Redlight (Clark Remix) [Warp]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Massive Attack Remix) [Real World]
Peeping Tom (feat. Massive Attack) - Kill The DJ [Ipecac Recordings]

Massive Attack Playlist

MASSIVE ATTACK PLAYLIST (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th November 2024

Featuring selections from their key albums, dub remixes and collaborators Mad Professor & Horace Andy among others.

Massive Attack & Horace Andy - Five Man Army [Wild Bunch]
Horace Andy - Skylarking (Dub) [Gorgon]
Massive Attack - Group Four (Mad Professor Remix) [Virgin]
Massive Attack - Risingson [Virgin]
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - Hymn Of The Big Wheel [Wild Bunch]
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You've Got [Polygram Tv]
The Wild Bunch - The Look Of Love [Universal]
Massive Attack - Teardrop [Now]
Massive Attack - Teardrop (Mazarani Dub One) [Universal]
Massive Attack - Wire (Leaping Dub) [Universal]
Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps (State Of Bengal Mix) [Circa]
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm [Virgin]

Massive Attack Live

MASSIVE ATTACK LIVE (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th November 2024

Massive Attack recorded live in concert. Featuring performances from Glastonbury and the Royal Albert Hall.

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (1996)
Massive Attack - Teardrop (1996)
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm (1996)
Massive Attack - Heat Miser (1996)
Massive Attack - Hynm Of The Big Wheel (1996)
Massive Attack - Angel (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998)
Massive Attack - Risingson (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998)
Massive Attack - Man Next Door (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998)
Massive Attack - Daydreaming (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine (Royal Albert Hall, London 1998)
Massive Attack - Eurochild (Radio 1 Session, 21 Feb 1996)

NB: Massive Attack did not perform at Glastonbury in 1996, but did do so in 1997

Massive Attack At The BBC

MASSIVE ATTACK AT THE BBC (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 26th November 2024

Massive Attack live and in conversation at the BBC. Featuring archive 6 Music material and interviews with Matt Everitt, Julie Cullen, Stuart Maconie & Mark Radcliffe. The programme also includes contributions from documentary film maker & Massive Attack collaborator Adam Curtis.

Massive Attack & Elizabeth Fraser - Black Milk [Circa]
Massive Attack - Risingson
The Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Massive Attack - Exchange
Massive Attack - Angel (Mad Professor Remix)
Massive Attack (feat. Tricky) - Inertia Creeps [Circa]
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Massive Attack & Tracey Thorn - Protection
The Archies - Sugar Sugar
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Angel
Massive Attack - Karmacoma
Massive Attack - Protection
Massive Attack - Teardrop

Soul Music: Series 30 - 15. Unfinished Sympathy

SOUL MUSIC: SERIES 30 - 15. UNFINISHED SYMPATHY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 27th November 2021

Personal stories inspired by Massive Attack's breakthrough single. Featuring the vocals of Shara Nelson, the track together with its iconic video would help catapult this band from Bristol onto the global stage. Stories include the photographer Giles Duley whose work was displayed during the song at the band's 2016 homecoming show in Bristol. Mountaineer Dmitry Golovchenko who named an attempt on the Nepalese mountain of Jannu after the track, and solicitor Marti Burgess who saw early sets from The Wild Bunch, the collective from which Massive Attack emerged, and for whom 'Unfinished Sympathy' helped crystallise her identity. Music Producer Ski Oakenfull deconstructs the track, peeling back the layers of beats, bells and samples. Belgian singer Liz Aku recorded a version of the track during lockdown, bringing back memories of her first love. Melissa Chemam, author of 'Massive Attack Out Of The Comfort Zone' explains the origins of Massive Attack, how 'Unfinished Sympathy' was written and why, when the track was released in 1991, the band had to drop the word 'Attack' from their name. A radio producer and DJ who spent New Year's Eve in a detox centre in London was asked to pick the tune to be played at midnight, and she chose 'Unfinished Sympathy'.

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Toby Field

Sounds Of A City: Bristol

SOUNDS OF A CITY: BRISTOL (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th March 2021

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, founder of Classic Album Sundays, turns her attention to Bristol in the fifth episode of 'Sounds of a City'. She argues that 'Blue Lines' by Massive Attack is the album that sounds like Bristol.

Featuring interviews with Robert '3D' Del Naja, Neneh Cherry, Cameron McVey, Mark Stewart, James Lavelle, Inkie, Roni Size and more. Colleen delves into how bass culture, graffiti, punk and politics are represented both in Bristol and within the grooves of 'Blue Lines'. She also makes the case for its lasting legacy with musicians in and outside Bristol.

First broadcast in 2016, when the 6 Music Festival came from Bristol and repeated to complement this weekend's festival.

Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Hymn Of The Big Wheel bed [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm [Virgin]
Prince Buster - WashWash [Wildbells]
Willie Williams - Armagideon Time [Studio One]
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - Five Man Army [Wild Bunch]
The Cortinas - Fascist Dictator (Single)
The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good And Evil [Radar]
Grand Master Caz And Chris Stein - Wild Style Subway Rap 2 (Scratch Mix By Charlie Chase) [Animal]
Eric B. & Rakim - Move The Crowd (Wild Bunch Remix) [4th & Broadway]
Massive Attack - Daydreaming [Circa]
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five And Grandmaster Melle Mel - Beat Street [Atlantic]
Massive Attack - Blue Lines [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got [Wild Bunch]
Massive Attack & Horace Andy - One Love [Wild Bunch]
Klark Kent - Don't Care [Universal]
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy [Virgin]

Massive Attack - Classic Essential Mix (1994)

MASSIVE ATTACK - CLASSIC ESSENTIAL MIX (1994) (320kbs-m4a/274mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 19th August 2018

As part of 6 Music's second Summer Of Love season, another chance to hear a classic Essential Mix from Massive Attack. First broadcast on 11 December 1994.

Massive Attack - Sly [Underdog Mix] [Wild Bunch]
DJ Smash - Da Boodah
DJ Cam - Dieu Reconnaitra Les Siens [Wagram Music]
Massive Attack - Blue Lines [Wild Bunch]
DJ Cam - Pure Pleasure [Street Jazz]
Urban Thermo Dynamics - My Kung Fu [Self Release]
TLC - Creep [Word Of Mouth]
Nine - Whutcha Want? [Old School Party Jams]
Unknown - Unknown
Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy Of Gold [Music On Vinyl]
Fu‐Schnickens - Breakdown [Jive]
Jeru Da Damaja - Statik [Payday]
Public Enemy - Louder Than A Bomb [Def Jam Recordings]
Main Source - Scratch & Kut
The 45 King - Get Funky [Tuff City]
DJ Use - Let Me Hear You Say [Phlange]
Rek Shit Rebelz - Bounce To The Beat
Gang Starr - The ? Remainz
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show [Def Jam Recordings]
A Tribe Called Quest - God Lives Through [Jive]
Black Moon - Reality (Killing Every...) (Instrumental) [Wreck]
Whodini - One Love [White Label]
Super Cat - Scalp Dem (Feat. Method Man) (Wu Tang Mix) [Columbia]
Brandy vs. Super Cat - I Wanna Be Down (LP Instrumental)  Vs. Scalp Dem (Feat. Method Man) (WuCapella Mix) [Columbia]
Black Moon - Who Got The Props? [Nervous]
Big Daddy Kane - Word To The Mother (Land) [Cold Chillin']
Le Pamplemousse - Gimmie What You Got [AVI]
The 45 King - Red Alert [45 King]
The 45 King - Street Fun [45 King]
Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz [A&M]
90's Lovers - You Know I Got Soul [Pool]
Bootman - To The Hip [React]
Kenny Dope Presents The Unreleased Project - Get On Down [Not On Label]
G. Simone - I Know You Know [Front Page Entertainment]
Paris - Whatcha See? [Blanco Y Negro]
Jamiroquai - Journey To Arnhemland [Sony Soho Square]
Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz [Prism]
The Buddha Baboons - Say Uptown [AV8]

The First Time With... Series 1 - 5. Massive Attack's 3D

THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 1 - 5. MASSIVE ATTACK'S 3D (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 4th November 2017

Matt Everitt in revealing conversation with Massive Attack's 3D. From early sound systems in Bristol to stellar collaborations, via the peak years of Trip-Hop.

Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
The Beatles - Come Together
Mud - Tiger Feet
Public Image Ltd. - Poptones
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack - Five Man Army
Massive Attack - Protection  (feat. Tracey Thorn)
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Massive Attack - A Prayer For England
Massive Attack & Damon Albarn - Saturday Come Slow
Massive Attack & Martina Topley Bird - Psyche
The Clash - This Is Radio Clash