The Bristol icon speaks to NME about confronting the album he spent his life running from, inspiring Billie Eilish, and remembering his late daughter Mazy and the The Specials' Terry Hall Reflecting ...
On Easter Sunday 1996 Tricky left his flat on Kensington High Street to buy his usual weed-smoking insomniac's breakfast of Lucozade and chocolate. When he reached the newsagent he had a sudden change ...
For a long time, I didn’t listen to it. It was like a house you’d lived in, or your old school. Somewhere that for a while, an eventful and formative while, had seemed like the centre of the world.
Tricky's landmark debut LP Maxinquaye in 1995 helped change the course of British music. Fusing dub, punk, hip hop and soul, Tricky created a masterpiece which sounded completely new and continues to ...
Tricky never knew his mother. Yet her spirit hovers through his debut record's dimly lit passageways. "It's my mum speaking through me; a lot of my lyrics are written from a woman's point of view," he ...
Musician Tricky performs onstage during the Beach Goth Festival. CREDIT: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Following the release of ‘Maxinquaye Reincarnated’ earlier this year, Tricky has announced a run of ...
Sundance Institute and The O2 today have announced that musician and producer Tricky will reunite on stage with vocalist Martina Topley-Bird for the first time in 15 years to perform his award-winning ...
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky will perform his 1995 breakthrough album Maxinquaye in full at Sundance London, a four-day event spun off from the popular Sundance Film Festival. Tricky will reunite with ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artists performing their classic albums in full has long been a nostalgic, lucrative staple of the live music ...
In one of those frightening existential realisations that hit us all as we get older, it just dawned on us that Tricky's landmark album 'Maxinquaye' is 20 years old this week. Tricky grew up in ...